I finally got the Pocket PC working correctly. I had been experiencing wierd behaviours with the Dell Axim I have from work. It seems that my first try at installing the driver for the Dell CF Wireless card was the wrong driver becuase I had thought the PocketPC was running PocketPC Windows 2002, but it was actually 2003. So, I had simply installed the right one, which got it working, but the Power ON button no longer worked. I had to use the RESET button. That was an even bigger pain when I realized that when the unit went into sleep mode, I also had to reset it to get it back on, which caused me to lose my place. I was thinking about trying to UNINSTALL the network card drivers and install ONLY the 2003 verison (perhaps the old 2002 driver had overwritten or conflicted with something in 2003), but I did not see any UNISTALL mechanism. So I did a hard reset, and then installed right away the 2003 Dell CF Wireless Card driver. It worked! I had to reenter all my settings for connection to my home network (for some reason, the DHCP on my Netgear outer doesn’t really do DHCP, so I have to specify particular IP settings)

Now I am on a mission to find a good blog tool. My Movable Type blog is not at all friendly to viewing on my device. Is there a PDA-friendly set of templates for MT? Is there device-detecting code for MT that knows when a portable device has requested access? I have a fold out keyboard, and so I would like to be able to add entries, and also do the “BlogThis” function I have in both IE and Firefox where I can highlight text on another Web page, right click and select the appropriate MT this or WP this, and have that URL and text be pulled into a new post dialog where I can comment on the link.

Pocket Blog hasn’t been updated since September 2002. Pocket Sharp MT requires the 2.0 release of the .NET Compact Framework , which is a 22mb download. That seems a hefty sacrafice for the limited space on Pocket PC storage. I’m not even sure as of this time what the .Net Compact framework does for me. But it sounds interesting. That’s a matter for further review. In the meantime, where ar ethe blog tools for pocket PC?