I finally got my hands on the extra IP addresses I was after… Only took 6 months. Anyway, now that I’ve got the IPs I’ve been waiting for! Soon this site will be powered by WordPress or MT

Does your Treo have hardcoded buttons for Web Browser, Voice Mail, Real Player, Versamail and a few other Treo applications that you never use? It’s a bit cumbersome, but you can get it done. Go to FileZ, the best Palm OS File-manager and it happens to be freeware. Once you have FileZ open, go to “Internal”, then select “PhoneFavorites2“, then choose “Edit”. Inside Edit, you can simply select each record and delete it to clear out your favorites. If you just want to remove the hard coded favorites, just choose “View” to confirm you’re editing the correct one, then choose delete. Enjoy your improved Treo.

Next to change our Treo wallpaper, find out why “Radio Control” is no longer turning our phone on after soft reset, why isn’t quickTake working, and figure out how to launch Pen Power automatically after reset. Probably time to do a clean install of out Treo.

I’ll also write about disabling all SMS notifications on your Treo

Really stupid question: change “favorite” buttons?

Lessons in Chinese retail… You walk into the store, agree on the price, the quantity. Everything is ready to go. You start counting the cash (yes, always cash) only to hear the shopkeeper say (in chinese) “Oh, but one little problem. I know we agreed on two units, but I only have one right now. How about you take the new one here, plus the display model [for the price you agreed on for two new ones]. Deal?”…

Get it writing. Twice…

Commodities | Oil that glisters | Economist.com:

Other analysts see parallels with the dotcom bubble of the late 1990s. After all, plenty of people are opining that �things are different this time�. Pension funds and individual investors are keen to get in on the action. CalPERS, America’s biggest pension fund, is due to decide soon whether to put money into commodities. If such a conservative operator is eyeing commodities, cynics say, then a correction must be close at hand.

Jim Rogers opened a commodity index in ’98, just before he went on a 3 year trip around the world. He talked about the commodity boom that had already started then, and it’s still going. This article in the Economist questions if the boom is coming to a close. How much of the rise in commodity prices is due to shortage and how much is due to the inflation that gets massaged away in the BLS’s “hedonic adjustments” to the CPI? Bernanke must get to see the real numbers, so up the interest rates go.

WSJ.com – Baidu Net Soars on Increased Traffic:

The Chinese-language Internet-search provider posted net income of 58.5 million yuan ($7.3 million), or 1.69 yuan a share, up from 12.1 million yuan, or 0.39 yuan a share. Revenue more than doubled to 191.6 million yuan from 69.7 million yuan. The number of active online-marketing customers increased to more than 90,000, an increase of 22% from the first quarter.

Bit of a sad story for Google here. Over the past quarter it seems I was quite regularly able to access Baidu, but frequently had trouble accessing Google’s servers. Life in the wild east…

It appears there is a market for *everything* in China as even adult male circumcision is widely promoted… It seems that until recently, most infants were not given this operation.

A Must-Read for Men Too long a foreskin wrapped as bark The myriad of forms and shapes Too much toil sets Heaven askew Worms and germs upset and vex.

Offensive odors swollen red Lengthy foreskin is to blame And if yours is so afflicted Dongda Clinic has your fix.

Korean-style circumcision Absent pain and absent wound Awkward maladies will vanish Lovers laugh and beam with bliss

Where is this Dongda Hospital? South of Landao Mansion�s side 8563-9299 give a call Ensure your lover�s happiness

See the discussion of the ad and check out the original Chinese at Danwei…

China Dialogue: consumption in China: This discussion at Danwei discusses the growth of consumption in India/China, and the the effect on the environment.

If by 2030 China and India alone were to achieve a per-capita [resource consumption] footprint equivalent to that of Japan today, together they would require a full planet Earth to meet their needs.

If there is a shortage of commodities the prices will rise. The market will take care of the problem. The real story, is how are the citizen’s of what is today the “rich world” going to compete as the number of people reasonably prepared to join the rich world increases from 1B to 3B over the next 40 years? Earth is already proven to support at least 1B people using today’s technology. 40 years worth of technology development will probably open new resource frontiers including the poles and the oceans.

Don’t worry. The market will probably be able to handle it. In any case, mankind will survive.

刚才用苹果伊妹儿。APP 发送这件 BLOG POST。希望编码 没有问题。

ecto bookmarklet: I’ve just added the “ectoize” bookmarklet to my Camino. Seems to work pretty well. I’ve also got bookmarklets to:

• change my resolution to 760×420 (800×600 plus browser chrome)
• V-Max to Vertically Maximize the current browser window
• Max to maximize in both dimensions
• Make Form “GET”, great for building URL Quick Searches
• Page Title to change the Page Title… Why? I forgot
• Yojimbo!
• Yojimbo!

That’s pretty much it. If you want more Bookmark fun, check out Andy Budd’s Bookmarklets. How’s that for a lot of URLs in a little post…

It looks like all of the mobile software that I’ve tried on my Palm is falling a bit short of expectations. The software I’ve found is relatively beta to begin with – lot’s of reboots. The larger problem is Chinese characters. Whether creating a new message using chinese, or writing 汉子 inside an existing message, clients other than Ecto seem to come up short.

On another note, I’ve tried out Ecto and MarsEdit and even though I was biased toward MarsEdit, Ecto wins out. Better support for “Rich Text” right in the client without having to resort to HTML. Works great!

Let’s see how mobile blogging goes!

It’s been a long time, but you should see a lot more happening here real soon. If so, you can probably thank Ecto and MO:BLOG. I’m hoping so. We’ll see.