Dear Lazyweb

Does anybody out there know, or know how to find out, how to reset a Fossil FX-2001 PalmOS Wrist PDA/watch? It needs to be a hard reset - all the data has to go. My Google-fu has failed me.

Similarly, if anybody knows how Wikipedia county tables work, do you have any idea why this one is b0rken? This is not HTML. I came across this hideously b0rken Wikipedia page and managed to fix it part-way by making the two different wikitable code sets connect together, but there's still a broken part and my attempt to put it all into the same type is failing.

( Click here for the table code )

Atari 130xe with disk drive. Anybody want it?

I've posted a Craigslist ad for an Atari 130xe and Percom Data disk drive I'm giving away. I got it free from somebody at Microsoft who used to collect 8-bit computers and got tired of it. You can see the ad here. Anybody want it, let me know. If you want it and you can't pick it up, I can ship it, but you need to pay the shipping costs. The keyboard does NOT completely work - it may just need to be disassembled and cleaned out - but, surprisingly, it boots and runs things like Strike Eagle. (4 meg avi here.) See the ad for details, and you can ask me questions here if you want. It's FREE, but you have to pick it up.

ETA: I have a possible Craigslist pickup. But the guy sounded like a total flake. I always seem to get flake responses off Craigslist. That's why I hate working with them.

ETA2: Yep. He flaked.

Something caught my eye in the ABC/USA Today/BBC/ARD survey.

From the copy of the final report hosted at USA Today:

35. Have you or an immediate family member - by which I mean someone living in this household - been physically harmed by the violence that is occurring in the country at this time?

3/5/07: Yes: 17% No: 83%

CIA Factbook population of Iraq: 26,783,383
World Book household size, Iraq: 7.7

Assuming each "yes" answer above referred only to one and exactly one person (the most optimistic assumption, and the one which minimises the casuality count), this number implies that Iraqi casualties due to violence alone has been (26,783,383 * .17)/7.7, or 591,321.

Some recent studies of developing-world ethnic civil wars have shown that in these conditions in developing countries, the usual ratio of 2:1 injured:killed is, unfortunately, not as high. In these conditions, the fatality rate is dramatically higher. Unfortunately, I don't have links handy.

The Johns Hopkins survey put a highest-confidence fatality number included premature deaths from all sources, not only direct violence. That number was around 650,000. This survey shows close to 600,000 injured and/or killed by direct violence alone.

I would assert that the Johns Hopkins survey's findings are, unfortunately, indirectly supported by the results of this survey.