elfs | I love my Palm Pilot, regardless of the passage of time.

Man, being out of date is sometimes a serious pain in the neck. Last night I had to update the copy of plucker I had installed on my desktop; I had moved several versions of Python (from 2.4 to 2.7) and there were changes to the code loading API that made the old plucker-build library incompatible. The biggest changes was that all source files needed a document encoding setting in the second line of the file, but if and only if there were characters outside the ASCII-7 set. I spent an hour compiling and recompiling the source, eventually tracking down every place where someone whose name had an trema or accent above a letter, and editing the source file to acknowledge the ISO-8859-1 encoding.

But it worked, and after a few passes I can now re-encode books for my Palm T|X, which is a heck of a lot smaller and easier to carry than my Nook. I love my Nook for sitting around at home, or sitting at a cafe', but while waiting in line, the Palm is still ideal.