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PBX My name is Paul Bissex, and e-scribe.com is my consulting business. I build web applications using as much open source software as possible. From September to June I teach web design and other important non-photographic professional skills to photographers. In the '90s I wrote technology commentary and reviews for magazines, newspapers, and web publications, including Wired, Salon.com, FamilyPC, the late lamented Web Review, and the Chicago Tribune. Feel free to email me.

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I'm co-authoring a book, "Python Web Development with Django", with Jeff Forcier and Wesley Chun. It will be published by Prentice Hall in July 2008, but is available for pre-ordering on Amazon now.

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My Palm TX runs Windows 98

...at least that's what you'd think by looking at the User-Agent string sent out by the Blazer web browser: 

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98; 
  PalmSource/Palm-D050; Blazer/4.3) 16;320x448

Embarrassing, especially for a Mac/Palm/Unix guy. I mean, if I did use Windows, I'd run something cool like Windows 2000 Server.

Thursday, January 19th, 2006
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2 comments

Some related posts: The Palm Foleo • Selling beat-up stuff on eBay
• Comment from Gene, 15 months later

Hello, silly....... That is talking about the compatibility of the Blazer browser, not the operating system It is used by web sites to tell the server how to serve up the web page to the browser for best handling and viewing.

• Comment from Paul, 16 months later

I know why it's there -- it's still embarrassing!

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