kirsty the consummate techy has just spent half an hour trying to sync her palm with her linux box. after half an hour of scratching her head because all the serial port’s reports that they are either busy or non existent she decides to check the cabling. the palm cable is lying on the floor unattached to anything except the power supply, definitely not attached to the computer. there is no spare serial port to connect the cable to as the only one on the box is attached to the in use modem.

note to self: when serial port’s claim to be busy or non existent, consider the fact that that might be because they are.

note to kirsty: changing from third to first person and back is probably bad, especially when you are the first person but sometimes it’s nice to look in on yourself being a dope and imagine that you aren’t.