So I’ve finished updating my old Sony Clie’ with all the new personal data I’d accumulated on the iPhone.  Including all the notes I couldn’t sync.  Then I updated my Palm Desktop for the Mac software and synced the Clie’ to it.  I’ve just now finished syncing with kPilot on my Linux system.  It was absolutely painless, unlike the first few times I tried it back when I first bought the Clie’ in 2003.  kPilot now has a configuration "wizard" that detects which device port the Clie’ is trying to talk to the PC on and configures everything.  So you don’t have to muck with finding out which /dev device your Palm is on and setting the permissions correctly and then getting the conduits to work properly.  It all just works…to borrow a phrase.  Wow…that’s a new one in Linuxville…

I’m off now to try and find a belt case for the Clie’ at the new and improved Towson Town Mall.   Wish me luck.  I don’t think very many folks bother with dedicated Palm organizers anymore.  Usually it’s a smartphone nowadays.  But Palm is still selling them so there must be a market out there for them.  Alas, Sony doesn’t anymore, so I can’t just go out and buy or order a belt case from them.

[Update…]  Success.  Yeah, not many people use dedicated Palm Organizers anymore, but Blackberry’s are pretty popular, and about the size as my Clie’.  So I have a nice belt case for it now.

So this makes three belt widgets I’m carrying around with me now, though not always at one time.  A phone widget (the iPhone), a music widget (my iPod 3rd generation), and my data widget (the Clie’).  The iPhone was supposed to be the thing that integrated all of those.  But it doesn’t.  It can’t hold all my digital music, and its organizer functionality is missing critical pieces.