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I’ve been a fan of powerful handheld devices for a long time. I bought a Palm Pilot to help me keep track of my university classes in the 90’s and graduated up to a Treo earlier this decade. The iPhone is the first device out of all of them that makes mobile publishing a breeze (and fun too).

There were a few attempts at blog and twitter integration on the old Palm platform, but networking always felt like it was bolted onto the OS, rather than an integral part of the experience.

My Typo installation has been busted for a while–  I decided I’d bite the bullet and install WordPress.  It’s pretty much the defacto standard for self-hosted blogs and it’s flexible enough for my needs.

This is the fourth iteration of my personal blog.  My first was a hand-crafted news page of posts (using pico and an AIX shell, nonetheless) before blogs were called blogs.

Albert Einstein’s message from the Westinghouse Time Capsule.

OUR time is rich in inventive minds, the inventions of which could facilitate our lives considerably. We are crossing the seas by power and utilise power also in order to relieve humanity from all tiring muscular work. We have learned to fly and we are able to send messages and news without any difficulty over the entire world through electric waves.

Hmm… Google introduced a backlinks feature in the last few days, but it doesn’t seem to work for me on the webmaster tools page.

Does it take some time to show up on older accounts?

UPDATE: Looks like there was a bit of a bug and it was disabled for a short period of time.

I started looking into a Treo 680 ROM tool. Unfortunately, there is no longer a recovery bootloader on the Treo, making ROM upgrades significantly riskier.

There are some possible ways to proceed, but this will take some time to investigate. I’ll keep you posted.

If you have a Treo 680, would you be willing to build/purchase a serial cable?