Gigaaaaan-tor, Gigaaaaaan-tor....

Edinburgh, this Saturday (10 May), 9pm-3am: GIGANTOR
Teviot Park Room, £2

depeche mode - front 242 - new model army - ministry - kmfdm - bauhaus - alien sex fiend - adverts - big black - radiohead - shellac - peace love + pitbulls - mudhoney - fugazi - hiphoprisy - damned - ptp - bomb everything - killing joke - foetus - janes addiction - ramones - pil - nitzer ebb - nephilim - dead kennedys - laibach - rancid - cop shoot cop - sex pistols - daisy chainsaw - 1000 homo djs - creaming jesus - eels - skinny puppy - queen adreena - sisters - alice donut - nirvana - ruts - prodigy - xcnn - consolidated - virgin prunes - butthole surfers - chemical brothers - devo - pop will eat itself - blondie - offspring - mesh - public enemy - rage against the machine - frontline assembly - god machine - aphex twin - beastie boys - sheep on drugs - revolting cocks - klf - siouxsie - cure - faith no more - nine inch nails - pig - beastie boys - neubauten - placebo - nofx - atari teenage riot - violent femmes - big black - the fall - rollins band - iggy pop - x ray spex - therapy - carter - bomb 20 - motorhead - skatenigs - dickies - nomeansno - wiseblood - thrill kill kult - pixies - test dept - nick cave - christian lunch - damage manual - hole - hives - snuff - underworld - lard - curve

In some ways my favourite club ever. I probably leave for London on Tuesday for about a fortnight, so come along and say hello...

About to buy a Treo, should I?

(Today may be a day of many LJ posts. Usually I try and save things up and do many things in one post, but as Alison points out this usually means that only one of the many things I post gets replies, so I'm going to start posting smaller things more often. If I get to an obnoxious posting frequency, tell me.)

My Palm is dying. I had to take the covers off by heating the glue with a hairdryer, and it's never stuck on again properly. It only hotsyncs through a serial port - my new laptop doesn't have a serial port! I lost the nice weighted stylus that came with it and am using a nasty plastic one, and the thing that's supposed to protect the screen disappeard mysteriously one day, and now the screen is scratched. I don't carry it around any more, so it's basically NBG, and with everything being insanely busy I really need a working Palm - I bought my first Palm during the last great panic of my life in 1999 when we were buying this house, and it was invaluable.

My phone is dying. The thing that the belt clip plugged into in the back is completely broken, so I had to buy an annoying holster, which it seems I've now lost so I'm back to carrying it in a pocket. The screen is badly scratched. The firmware sucks really badly, especally where texts are concerned - it can only hold ten, it crashes when I'm looking at them, the predictive texting dictionary can't be extended, and I frequently learn that texts are from <> meaning that it's from someone in my address book but it doesn't feel like telling me who.

Given that pavlos seems to be happy with his, I guess this all means it's time I bought a Treo, especially since the the PDA/phone/MP3 thingy I really want doesn't even seem to be on the manufacturers' drawing boards. But I've been looking about, and the only ones I can find have a bloody micro-keyboard. What I really want is Graffiti.

Does anyone sell a Graffiti-based Treo in the UK?

Should I be thinking of buying such a thing, or is there a reason that carrying two things about and making them talk via Bluetooth is a much better idea?