{"id":726,"date":"2002-10-17T22:41:16","date_gmt":"2002-10-17T22:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/wp\/?p=726"},"modified":"2002-10-17T22:41:16","modified_gmt":"2002-10-17T22:41:16","slug":"shopping-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/2002\/10\/shopping-therapy\/","title":{"rendered":"Shopping Therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Per usual, I reacted to money stress (refinancing the house, which seems to be <i>*knock wood*<\/i> going fine) by going out and buying something I didn&#8217;t actually need and could barely justify &#8212; Belkin&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.belkin.com\/IWCatProductPage.process?Merchant_Id=&#038;Section_Id=200588&#038;pcount=&#038;Product_Id=125935&#038;Section.Section_Path=%2F%2FRoot%2FMobileSolutions%2FPDAAccessories%2FInputDevices%2F\">G700 PDA Keyboard for Palm m125, m130, m500, i705<\/a>.<br \/>\nInitially I was pleased by the keyboard itself but let down because it seemed to go into a sleep mode if I stopped typing for more than about five seconds &#8212; I had to take the palm off the keyboard, cycle power and reconnect it to get it going again.  Could have been a deal-breaker &#8212; and a real bummer.<br \/>\n<i><u>Update<\/u>:<\/i> it&#8217;s a known issue interfacing with some models &#8212; easily and quickly fixed with a 48.5k download.<br \/>\n<i>Surprise, surprise:<\/i> there&#8217;s even a place to plug my sync-cradle&#8217;s power cord into the keyboard to let the Palm stay charged while I type.  I can write nearly anywhere without relying on my crappy handwriting.  Sweet.<br \/>\n<b>Question:<\/b>  What&#8217;s the last thing you bought just to cheer yourself up, or do you not do that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Per usual, I reacted to money stress (refinancing the house, which seems to be *knock wood* going fine) by going out and buying something I didn&#8217;t actually need and could barely justify &#8212; Belkin&#8217;s G700 PDA Keyboard for Palm m125, m130, m500, i705. Initially I was pleased by the keyboard itself but let down because &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/2002\/10\/shopping-therapy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Shopping Therapy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_import_markdown_pro_load_document_selector":0,"_import_markdown_pro_submit_text_textarea":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geeky-fanboy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}