It is quite difficult for a big guy to find a Bicycle fork to fit him when your weight is 230 lbs, wears a 40-50 lb pack and he likes to bounce up/down curbs. I spent some time researching and speaking to engineers before I found the solution to my shock fork woes. I finally decided to go with the Marzocchi Dirt Jumper 3. This shock appears to be strong as an ox and I have yet to bottom it out. I am completely happy with it so far. I must plug the guys at Pricepoint.com they have the best price by $30 on this part and were quite nice as well, I paid $260. I did the headset replacement and tube cut at my friend Ben Leppes as he is quite mechanically inclined and has all the tools available. In exchange for his builders knowledge and tools I maintain his Linux desktop machine and other techy stuff.

My Handspring Visor Deluxe is in hacker heaven now. This device when carried with a flash card reader, pocket keyboard, and wifi cartrige was quit a capable little gadget. I had to use it exclusively after I smashed my laptop on the way to Israel last year. It would run for a month on 2 AAA batteries and the wifi pod had an internal battery. This device was my way to SSH into my server from school, a phone book, had my tefilas and several e-books, and allowed me to get onto IRC and surf the web. Not bad for a tiny 33mhz dragonball processor. Now after resetting the visor freezes and pixelates out when a springboard module is inserted. :^(
I am to inherit a Sharp Zaurus which will put considerable power into my hands at the expense of having to charge up several times a week. The zaurus has a embedded Linux os which I am quite familiar with and can be flashed with a new os openzaurus which is totally free and open. If I can figure a way to harness the storage of my terrapin mine to use in the zaurus I will have quite a powerful pocket gadget.   ¶ 10:13 PM