Very frustrated with Palm and Palm Support for Pre!!!!

My Google Calendar and my Pre tend to stop syncing some appointments, and it terribly abuses repeating events if you have made an exception on one device and not the other.

eChatting with support rep Valborg was like pulling teeth. I had to explain my problem numerous times as he kept mis-stating the problem and giving me solutions that had nothing to do with what I said.

Finally, it came down to a problem with the way Palm synchronizes repeating events from Google Calendar and the Pre, and he kept insisting that GCal events that are changed from the repeating schedule SHOULD exist on the Pre, even if they have been deleted or rescheduled from GCal.

Asking him if there would be a change addressing this problem in the future release of WebOS turned out to be futile, as he insisted again that this was correct behavior.

Please. If you have a repeating event on Google for 7PM and you change one day so the event occurs at 9P, the whole notion of synchronization means that you should not have to have a 7P AND 9P event on your Pre. It should know that the 7P has been changed!

If you are going to tell me of a work-around, then admit that it is a work-around and tell me if there is a chance the behavior will be corrected. Do not talk to your customer like they are children!

My one published work

And I say to you, the stars in the sky are great in number, but a mind's emotions are greater .... And when thrown in among them, 'tis far easier a thing to get lost.

And as you stand gaping at me from your place, you imagine patterns, as I do the same with you ... patterns of allusion showing my every desire, my every fire, my every light.

And still I stand among them, covered in cold vacuum, surrounded by the lights of myriad passions and pains I simply do not understand.

And still I gaze at the wonder of them all, pulling at one another, spinning debris throughout my universe of thought, leaving some non-existent creator within me to clean ... to organize, to comprehend.

And you say to me that understanding begins with traveling from one thought and emotion at a time, and whether the patterns in the stars be illusion or real, being and identity can only exist with every star in its own place.


Vania Smrkovski

I'd have to look up the exact year, but I published this sometime around the turn of 80s to 90s. Hope you enjoyed it!