Woah, the Zaurus SL-5600 is on sale for $299. I've pondered getting one of these before, but the initial price of $550 or whatever that was is a bit expensive. I also wander how much I'd use it after 6 months when the fun-factor wears off. Is it just cool to own, or is it actually useful?

Shana was also interested in the idea. Wouldn't it be neat to have a gradebook/attendance application on a PDA? Just walk up and down the aisle, checking off homework into the PDA. Alas, I don't see an existing software package for this. But that shouldn't be too hard, right? (that's what Linus said when he first started working on Linux)

There is a version of Perl for the Zaurus, perhaps I could write something like that in Perl. This may even be something OpenThought could do. It would give me some extra incentive to create a built-in webserver plugin for OpenPlugin, as opposed to requiring Apache or IIS (and Chris has already done all the hard stuff).

Anyhow, PDA usefulness would be a good topic for some discussion at our next CPLUG meeting.