Research!!!
Ack!!
Library: "All your soul are belong to us"
Me: "Doh!"
Yes its that time again, the time when I spend half an hour scooping up all the abstracts of legal journal articles relevant to my topic from Westlaw.co.uk* that I can and go to the library to read them all.
I have more coursework to get done and this one is actually a bit more in depth because its commenting on an area of law, not just advising someone about how to sue someone else for half their stuff.
This time I shoved all the contacts and all the other research I had done without consulting actual paper (Westlaw's case comments) into my Newton. If you remember I bought Denning my beloved Newton Messagepad 2100 because I had done that huge Research-o-rama using conventional pen and paper (god no!!!) and had decided that a newton would really speed things up. Well I suddenly thought "ok so how the hell do I get the text I've written on my comp onto the newton.
I searched and searched and searched. What I found were ways using terminal emulation programs and soup data (nasty!). Then I noticed a superb feature of a superb application I found online. Its called Escale and it uses the Newton Desktop Libraries to create a Newton Desktop Syncing application which also uses OS 10.2 Rendevous technology to make the networking slick and efficient. It has a "Use the mac keyboard on the newton over a serial connection" feature. This means what I type on my mac into this program can feed onto my newton as if the keyboard was connected to it. So I copied the HUUUUGE chunk of text and pressed Command-V (paste) for a laugh to see if it would work.. And do you know the bugger actually did!! It sat for a while and I thought I'd either done nothing or overloaded it and suddenly it started pasting page after page of text into the notepad! Sorted!
Anyhow I churned out the first of the contracts for my new job-thingy. Which means I'll be getting some cash.. Ooh yeah :) that £60 is gonna be sooo good for this destitute student :)
And I was planning to save it up so I could buy this MyTV tuner thing for my mac so I can watch TV whilst I surf and record shows and more importantly never leave my room and have to face my grandmother (apart from when she forcibly walks in and starts talking to you) except for meals and going to the lav. Mwahaha!
Anyhow I was looking on eBay randomly and what do you know! There it was in an auction with only 2 days left! going for £40!! My bid is in and hopefully seeing as the buyer is some re-saler I might be able to grab my desired item on the cheap!! Happy day!
Right, sleep for me so that I can research tomorrow!
Later
John
Posted by John Swaine at May 7, 2003 02:51 AM