Here's an example. No, not of the fuzzy stuff in the fridge, but of the fuzzy thinking we were seeing at Palm. We were meeting with a Palm exec about the importance of connecting to Windows NT and 2000 servers in the enterprise. For a while, the conversation seemed almost like English. But then, I was convinced the Universal Translator lost a marble or two when our pet exec told us that they'd done a survey and learned that Microsoft wasn't all that big in corporations, so they didn't really have to worry too much about Microsoft in the enterprise.

Seriously. That's what she said. There's more, but I can't repeat it (mostly because we promised we wouldn't). Suffice it to say that beer drinkers have nothing to fear from Palm, except beer itself. I know that doesn't make sense. That's ok. It doesn't really have to. Not much did.

It was terribly demoralizing. I didn't want to edit PalmPower any more. I didn't want to watch this once-great company shoot itself in its one remaining good foot. To be fair, Palm seems to have regained some of its former glory in the intervening months. The Tungsten-series machines are solid devices, and the Zire 71 is a perfectly-balanced offering at a very reasonable price. We're thrilled to see our old friends once again get their game on.

And still, I wanted to be excited about what we published. I wanted to write about ALL the great things happening in the handheld world, about the amazing innovations that WiFi was making possible, about Tablet PCs, digital cameras, and phones that do just about everything, including make a good phone call.

I still carry my Palm computer (actually, it's a Handspring), but I wanted more.

I wanted to pull the plug on PalmPower.

I wanted Computing Unplugged, the magazine of untethered technology, the magazine of unwired wonders, the magazine of unplugged possibilities.

This magazine. This magazine that we're launching on this beautiful spring day with robins chirping and squirrels jumping from tree limb to tree limb. This magazine that mirrors all the life and growth and budding, blooming, bounty that is spring.

PalmPower Magazine is now Computing Unplugged, unhindered, unrestricted, unfettered, and undeniably unplugged.

We're kicking off Computing Unplugged with both Palm and Pocket PC related articles. And we'll continue to cover Palm. But we'll be covering a lot more, including:

• PDAs and GPSs (and other things with fun acronyms);
• Digital cameras and camcorders;
• Music and MP3 players;
• Handheld and mobile gaming;
• Wireless WiFi, 802.11abcdefg, Bluetooth, and other tech;
• Unplugged in the enterprise;
• Computing in cars;
• Home entertainment, home automation, and even remote controls;
• Computers, of course, but only those that are unplugged;
• Cell phones (and whatever they're becoming);
• Internet technology;
• Cabling, robotics, and much, much more.

If it's got a processor and it's mobile, or it's unplugged where it once was plugged, or it facilitates becoming unplugged, and most especially if its cool, exciting, or turns us on, we're plugging into it.