New Pocket PC
The last time i was tempted to buy a PDA was on April 17. Today, I had to buy one. I've been very neglectful in entering time sheet entries for billable projects so I figure the money that we've lost in not billing my time will be made up in a few weeks of owning this baby.
How? Well, I ended up with the Toshiba e740 with built-in 802.11 wireless. I also have Visual Studio.NET 2003 with the .NET Compact Framework, which means I can write Pocket PC apps using the .NET Framework and C#.
Yeah, so? So... my problem with not tracking time is that I spend so much time in internal meetings that I never get a chance to enter my time properly in our custom built time tracking intranet app (well, that's my excuse anyway). I'm going to write a Pocket PC application that'll talk to our time tracking system via a web service so I can enter my time anywhere at work, or over VPN from home. On top of that, I'll be able to access my email from anywhere at work or home, and MSN Messenger too.
There, I've convinced myself that I deserved it. That feels much better.
... now to get Quake installed.
By the way, the Microsoft Transcriber system is amazing. Very, very good handwriting recognition out of the box. I'm amazed at how much better it is than my old Windows CE device circa '99.