My cell phone is Microsoft based and this computer I'm blogging on is an Apple. The two don't speak. They don't even try. I guess if my phone were newer they would at least try to communicate with each other. But two year-old phones don't know the Apple language. They don't talk the same talk. So my calendar on the computer is almost empty but the one on my phone (that I almost always have with me) is filled with everything I need to remember to do. Like a brain memory expansion pack but only more reliable. Until the battery starts to fizzle.
Now if you want to call me on my cell phone you can. It rings (actually it vibrates because that's the best way for me to "hear" it). It rings when it reminds me that it's almost time to do something I should remember to do. And if I hold it gingerly the battery on steroids won't fall out.
I figure if it lasts two more years by late 2010 maybe some new technology will surface and I won't even need a new battery again. Or a new cell phone at all. Maybe by then Macs and PCs will be able to speak and understand each other, and Democrats and Republicans will hug in the aisles of the Capital Building, and we all will have forgiven George Bush.
