The end of my first week at grad school… Everything is going well, and I’ve started to grasp the fact that I’m going to have a lot of reading to do. Writing as well, I suppose. Not sure if I’m going stick with the Portuguese… it’s fun, but already I’m starting to feel like it might not be the best use of my time. There’s another planning course that I had signed up for as a backup, and I may end up doing that instead, and looking for some Spanish conversation practice a couple of times a week…

I’ve been give this gizmo a trial run here… It looks like a very compact laptop computer, and it has a full-size keyboard, and a screen that’s about 8 inches wide and 3.5 inches high. Beyond that, it’s more like a Palm device: Palm OS, low-res monochrome screen, no hard drive. The idea is that you don’t need a full-blown laptop computer for mobile writing, a device with plenty of memory, but no hard drive weighs much less and uses much less battery power than a laptop — this thing powers on and off instantly and lasts for weeks on a battery charge. At first I was thinking that I might not really end up using it, but after trying it out in class, it feels perfectly natural, and because it has no moving parts, it’s silent and unobtrusive. More on this thing in my epinions review.

Where are all the photos, you ask? Or, why don’t I just host them on my own site instead of using ofoto? Well, it’s because photos use hard drive space — I have a limited amount on dwelle.org, and ofoto doesn’t seem to have any limits on how much space you use. So, if you want to see photos, and I haven’t already sent you an invitation via ofoto, try this.