Who Thinks Up This Stuff?

After discovering Easter eggs (one of the coolest, and probably one of the most useless discoveries on the Palm!), learning Quizzler, and discussing ways to download materials, we were turned loose on the computers in the lab. Our job? To explore Palm freeware and shareware sites. It was amazing! I found information on wines and foods, applications that didn't work, a database to keep track of your lovers (which, I suppose, could come in rather handy if you dated a lot of people who looked alike), a database to keep track of your cats (which I completed right away - like our instructor, I do have a love of felines!), and a couple of music applications that I couldn't figure out at all!

Tony's idea of posting a Palm application wish list on his web site is a fabulous one. I think the possibilities are endless and if we could all come up with ideas specific to our field, and give those ideas to those who love to write programs, we could have a continuous supply of ways to integrate the Palms into our teaching.

I've been playing with HanDBase a bit and really like the setup. I'd love to use it with my 5th graders and help them develop a database to keep track of all of the musicians and composers we study during the year. The problem is that it's $30 - and that would be for every student - so the cost is prohibitive. Tony suggested using Address Book and just changing the fields. What I haven't quite figured out is - can you have more than one address book so that one could still be dedicated to actuall addresses and the other turned into a completely different type of database?

Dinner tomorrow night is White Chicken Chili, Mardi Gras Salad, and Kahlua Cake. They're 3 of my favorites, so I hope you like them, too!