I am giving up on palmOne's Treo now that it has become just another MS-Windows pocket device. Blackberry here I come -- RIM at least bundles Java with their handhelds instead of charging a ridiculous and piddling $5 for the runtime.

Sheldon Richman's analysis shows that the U.S., State and Local Governments acted irresponsibly in the years leading up the the destruction of New Orleans. Private companies doing any of these things would be where Enron and Worldcom are now, but governments can get away with it because "the people" are trained from Kinder-Garten on up to "trust our leaders". The results of this trust are now in.