1. My graphite Kindle arrived yesterday--huzzah! It's sleek, it's shiny, and it doesn't make my eyes burn to read on it!


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If you want to watch things on the BBC iPlayer, I've found a way around the wall (much thanks to johnny9fingers for pointing me in the right direction; I wouldn't have searched for the right thing otherwise).

All you need is Google Chrome and these instructions:

Click to view

Basically it's an extension that tricks the BBC site into thinking that you are in the UK and ( Read more... )

--when you want to read a book in public, but the publisher has given the dead-tree version a mortifying cover.

--when you want a book, but hate the idea of it taking up physical space on your shelves next to Shakespeare, Tolkien, and Dickens.

eReaders

--when you want to look classier (matter of opinion, I know) than what you're reading ( Read more... )

Oh, iPad. I get the feeling you're a lot like the men I find myself attracted to: Nice to look at, fun to mess with; but there's probably a lot in the fundamentals left to be desired. And, were I a wiser woman, I'd steer clear until you've matured a bit.

But, honestly, I'm more likely to get drawn in on the love-at-first-sight wave ... and then ( Read more... )

Yes, I still exist in the blogosphere. I've been so out of spirits lately that I just haven't had the drive to fully express myself beyond the 140-character tweet. Nothing much to report, to be honest.

My home-based responsibilities are well taken care of (oddly enough) at the moment. Money things are finally, blessedly in order--and I'm ( Read more... )

This hasn't been a very productive day for me. I've been allowing myself to get dragged away from anything useful by the internet. I should probably unhook my router until Monday ... Will I? Maybe after I hit the 'post' button ( Read more... )

Google Wave sent me an invite while I sleeping. I don't know if it was from my signing up earlier in the year, or if it was sent by a friend (slywinkle was saying he would when he could). Either way--I now have Google Wave!

It's given me 20 invites to send, with the dubious addendum: "Invitations will not be sent immediately. We have a lot of stamps to ( Read more... )

Must have been exhausted, though I don't know why. I spent most of the rainy afternoon on the couch napping--after spending most of the rainy morning in front of the iMac, catching up on Weeds (and then failing to catch up on Project Runway, because Megavideo cut me off like a concerned barman -- "I think you've had enough for today."). I took the ( Read more... )

I've been gone for a while, I know, but I need to blow off some steam ...

So some time back in April, my Aunt Maggie linked a photo album of her grandchildren to about twenty-four of her friends and relatives on Facebook. Fine. One or two people remarked at the time, and it was no big deal.

Cut to this past week, and suddenly one of the guys asks, ( Read more... )

I love my Mac, but I'm finding it impossible to lug around everywhere without having major lower back pains when I'm trying to go to bed at night. Also, it's a distraction machine. I lug it along to write and blog, and I end up messing around with graphics and screen-caps instead.

So when kleogade mentioned the XO yesterday, I thought: How great would that ( Read more... )