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I decided on a laptop.

I know I bashed Lenovo for having ugly machines, but, upon closer inspection, IBM has actually made some fairly decent laptops. They’re not inexpensive, mind you, but they seem to have gotten rave reviews. And, while they may not be as pretty as an iBook, Powerbook or MacBook Pro, they’re at least not glossy piles of plastic (although I may have to do something about those multi-colored keys).

I should be getting it in the next couple of days — wish me luck as I try to install Linux on the baby!

Peter Saint-Andre, the head of the Jabber community, agrees with me about the future ubiquity of wireless and what that will mean to mobile communications:

Going Mobile

Final thought: once IP phones take off, presence will indeed become the new dial tone (why call someone if they’re not available?). So the buddy list will become the center of the universe, even more than it is today.

I really hope that this passes — what a huge win that would be both for the public and for open standards:

Bill Introduced in Minnesota to Require Use of “Open Data Formats”

And remember: Open standards make the web go ’round.