use Perl

Other than the lack of a real operating system, the main thing that has always aggravated me about palm is the need to push that stupid button in order to initiate a connection with the desktop. They've long-since gone from serial to usb and still no way to initiate a connection via software.

Well, I'm taking this full-circle. I've discovered (due to having accidentally acquired a button-less cradle) that the hotsync button does nothing besides short two pins on the connector. (At which point I tell myself "duh. what else would a button do?") So: usb-serial cable, a wee reed relay, and some solder should get me to "desktop sends sync command to palm" which leads to "fun with cron and/or FAM." Wow, Palm really needs to get their act together.

Don't even say iphone. Apple's idea of interface design is "ease of sale over ease of use". PalmOS might suck, but AT&T and apple together would be far too much evil/incompetent for me to stomach.