Room-cleaning progresses apace

[azurelunatic]

I have disposed of business cards by putting their information into my Y! address book, which will put them on my palmtop, which is where I would use them anyway.

I also thought of a sweet little thing that computer or technically savvy businesses might want. Y'know how you can beam your Palm OS own address book entry to someone as a business card thinger? Well, if you had a dedicated broadcast unit in your business that was set up to beam the store's business card (restricted to a certain location, or on demand, lest it piss off users trying to look up something) ...

The Little Fayoumis is hanging in my room. He likes my bed. It's gotten bouncy again, because I've put the saved couch cushions from the Massive Couches of Doom underneath.

The box that used to hold a certain homemade candle has been converted into a Big Box of Divination Stuff. I wound up trying to explain why I got rid of the candle to the Little Fayoumis, and wound up using Team Rocket metaphorically.

I actually like cleaning my room (when I have a choice about it) because that means I find things that I hadn't remembered I had until I find them again. I get space, I get rid of things I don't need, and I find things and put them where I can find them again...

Comments

[wibbble]

Palm-style beaming requires a pretty direct line of sight and fairly close proximity.

You could do it by having a unit attached to a PC at a counter or something - just place your Palm in front of it and it'll get the signal. Alternatively, you could try to convince Palm and the PocketPC makers to come up with a single standard for address book data transfer, and then let everyone use BlueTooth.

[azurelunatic]

I'd want just a small device, maybe the size of a palmtop or a little larger, that you could plug into the wall and smack the button on to transmit. I'm not familiar with the formatting on different palmtop devices, the standards of communication; if there are a few such but not too many, one could have a selection for each... and of course one would be able to put in the business card.

I'm scrambled this morning.