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Call me old-fashioned, but I've never been seduced by the charms of electronic organizers. I know that everyone these days--from schoolkids to go-go executives--is packing a Palm, a Visor or a PocketPC. I know the devices now come in more colors than a Benetton window display. And I know that I could use a little more order in my life. But as long as they cost $300 (on average) and weighed in at half a pound, personal digital assistants, as they're called, always seemed too expensive and too heavy...
...Monday, a 15-year-old boy opened fire in a Santee, Calif. school, killing two of his fellow students and wounding 13 others. Further afield, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon completed the appointments to his new cabinet, and 60 people died when a bridge collapsed in Portugal. Meanwhile, in Palm Beach County, Fl. a dolphin which had been rescued from a shark attack last year was returned to the sea after recovering from its injuries...
...these events, only the dolphin was covered on the 11 p.m. news in Palm Beach County. So, someone watching might well have had no idea at all that our vice president was in the hospital. Many may still not know of the tragedy in Portugal. Which is, of course, as it should be--the well-being of a dolphin is definitely of more importance than the health of the vice president or 60 Portuguese commuters. Of course, Monday's news was far from atypical. Local news always seems to predominate on American television. This lack of balance is both tedious...
...police officer in Jupiter was hospitalized on Monday night. So was Dick Cheney. So were 60 commuters in Portugal. The dolphin tale was heartwarming, but should it have prevented us from hearing about these other issues? Just like hundreds of others across the country, network executives in West Palm Beach had to make a choice. Were they correct in deciding that a police officer with a leg wound was really more newsworthy than a vice president with heart problems...
...most exercise I got in an average day was the walk from my car to a Silicon Valley press event, at which the refreshments generally ranged from chocolate-covered pretzels and Coca-Cola to chocolate-encrusted peanut clusters and Coca-Cola. Despite repeated right-index-finger exercises (mouse clicking, Palm Pilotactivation and cell-phone dialing), my extra pounds were starting to tip the proverbial scales. By how much? Let's just say that if my weight were my age, I would have been born some years before George Washington's Administration. This is a problem...