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Taking the Obama steps.
What drives you?
Abraham Maslow hierarchy of needs rewrite – Drive in 10 minutes.
PDA history review
![Array](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2498/4101477686_f17a4bd323.jpg "Got it two years ago today - my dad bought it for me before he died.
Psion is a british palm-top computer (so much more than just a pda and a fairly high learn-to-master curve). The EPOC OS used from the model 5 onward was eventually bought and became the Symbian OS. I have continuously used a Psion for about 13 years now. There are so many applications that I have found no equal to on any other device, plus of course, it has years of data on it.
Instead of a bill-fold, I have a nice leather case (i call it a clutch or usually just "my wallet", others call it a "man purse") that contains all my usual wallet stuff and my Psion. The laptop-style keyboard is very comfortable and folds into the unit very cleverly and a stylus inserts into the side. It has a 16-greyscale touch screen, runs on 2 AA batts (30 hours-ish), and takes CompactFlash cards with 32mb onboard.
The Psion line stopped around 2000 or so (with a product called the NetBook - needless to say, Psion has tried a lawsuit or two as the name is increasingly used for other products) and the 5 models were produced in the mid- to late 90s, I guess. There were the 5, 5mx, and 5mx Pro. And, there was a very very small batch of colored ones released (the rest were all grey) and I managed to get one in great condition from Ebay. I think I got it for around $400. Well worth it as I have over a decade of emails, notes, thoughts, and other data I have migrated from one Psion to my next, starting with a 3a in '96 or so.
This will almost certainly be my last Psion - I do use it less and less and have managed to export quite a bit of data from it over the last couple of years. Neither my phone nor my PSP have a z-code interpreter of any kind, for instance. Also, the agenda is unmatched (name something you wish yours does - this does it), same for the database app I use heavily - and those are both native! - and it even has a fantastic grocery shopping program that I still use today. And that's just my recently used ones.
I could go on and on but, the short version is, this was the best unit they ever made - the models afterward went a direction I didn't care for - and it is the last tech anything my dad imparted to me - a way of life that started with my first computer he bought me when I was 10 (i am 36 at this writing). I have no memories of throwing footballs or him teaching me to work on a car - we debugged programs together when I was growing up.
So, anyway, for my purposes, it is still irreplaceable.
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Why poor countries are poor
“We still don’t have a good word to describe what is missing in Cameroon, indeed, in poor countries across the world. But we are starting to understand what it is. Some people call it “social capital,” or maybe “trust.” Others call it “the rule of law,” or “institutions.” But these are just labels. The problem is that Cameroon, like other poor countries, is a topsy-turvy world in which it’s in most people’s interest to take action that directly or indirectly damages everyone else. The incentives to create wealth in any way at all are turned on their heads just as surely at the roof of the school library.
