Monday, June 1, 1998

PalmPilot etiquette

.FLYINGHEAD THE PALMPILOT LIFESTYLE
.TITLE PalmPilot etiquette
.FEATURE
.SPOTLIGHT FIGALT etiquette-cover.gif
.SUMMARY If Miss Manners was a guy writing an etiquette column, this would be it. Slightly politically incorrect. Slightly in poor taste. But containing things you just gotta know: Can a PalmPilot bring down an airliner if you loose at PilotChess? If you’ve managed to get a woman to give you her number, will she regret it while you fumble with Graffiti? If you draw pictures of M&M’s in DinkyPad while in a business meeting, will you get caught? Enquiring minds want to know. OK, so Miss Manners might be horrified.
.AUTHOR Chris Guella
"Will a plane crash if I use my PalmPilot during taxi, take-off, or landing?"

"Is it politically correct to ask for a person’s phone number and then fumble to Graffiti it into the PalmPilot?"

"Do business people really want to zap their business cards back and forth?"

The most frequent question I, and many of you, get when someone recognizes that you are using the PalmPilot is "Oh, is that the PalmPilot