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A review of the usefulness of Sony’s recent UMPC offering and perhaps UMPCs in general

I searched for ages to find the line of code I needed... I ploughed through all the sites offering convoluted solutions, the sites offering JavaScript solutions when the description of the site said ASP ! and I even found sites that wanted to charge me $49 for a script to do this !

All I needed was:

<%@language="VBScript"%>
<%
Response.Write Request.ServerVariables("REMOTE_ADDR")
%>

I'll write the article in a few days but for the time being here are the relevant links...

The best way to look after your PDA screen is to put a screen protector on it in the first place. If you have tried in the past to fit a screen protector and found that all you ended up with was a screen full of bubbles then you were probably impatient. Now you have a scratched screen all is not lost...

Actually this is here for my ease. When I am creating a a new site I often need to fill it up with text so I can see how it looks in a browser etc. The printing industry has used this chunk of text since the 1950's and interestingly this has continued with electronic publishing. There is a really good Lorum Ipsum generator at http://www.lipsum.com/ but to save me troubly I have published five paragraphs here to cut and paste when I need...

Yep, I've added a blog... but not so I can cronicle day to day activities. Its here so that from time to time I can publish articles about bits of technology or technical procedures, particularly if I have spent considerable time searching the Internet to find out how to do something. I hope it will be useful at least to someone...