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I spent the weekend at Snoqualmie pass. Winter has certainly not yet relinquished its grip on the Cascade Crest. Here's some of the sights done AlpineInker style. - Here's a car that someone left parked for the winter. That probably wasn't a good idea. It's been crushed like an empty can of cheap beer...

Automatic screen rotation has been popularized by the iPhone but is also available on the OQO Model 02 thanks to Kenrick's Automatic Screen Rotator Utility ( executable download ). Just hold the device the way you want to use it. The screen flips to the correct portrait or landscape orientation in one...

I just received an OQO-style moleskine in the mail! When I opened it up, it was full of arcane tricks for using InkSeine's Tool Ring as a flick pad. This topic has come up before but now it seems that perfect combination of custom flicks has been discovered. This is the new set of Flick gestures...

The OQO Model 02 is almost the same size as my Moleskine Pocket Sketchbook. I suspect this is no accident. To illustrate the point, I scanned them side-by-side. The OQO is slightly narrower, which is necessary to make it fit in my shirt pocket given its 1" girth. By the way, don't let this scan...

The cat dragged in an exciting new gadget today. Of course, my shiny new OQO Model 02 showed up on a day where I was pretty much booked solid with meetings, so I was able to do little more than turn the thing on. But I did take a moment to snap a couple of pictures. I brought it to our group meeting...

It's been a very busy couple of weeks for me, so I haven't had time to attend to the blog, or much of anything else for that matter. But one thing that has been on my mind from time to time is the OQO Model 02 Ultra-Mobile PC (UMPC). It's an intriguing device but I have wavered for some time...