Digital Graffiti

My Sony Clie PDA seems to be crapping out on me; the bloody thing crashes every time I try to do something on it. I'm still trying to get it working properly, but I needed something to work with in the interim. While I don't use the device as much as I expected to when I got it for Christmas a couple of years ago, there are a couple of applications on which I am hopelessly dependent. So, I decided to pick up a relatively inexpensive interim / backup PDA to keep me going.

The Zire is the current bare-minimum Palm handheld; only 2MB RAM, no expansion storage, no backlight. It performs the functions I really, desparately need, though. What drives me crazy, however, is the new input system on the latest generation of Palm OS. It could just be that I'm used to the old system rather than the new, but I don't think so. Under the original Graffiti system, every letter and number could be entered using a single stroke, at least as an alternate form. Graffiti 2 requires multiple strokes for some of the most common letters. I might be able to adjust in time, but I doubt I'll ever like the new version as well as the original.