It’s funny how joy can turn to sorrow in just a moment. Last night Robbie and I were watching DVR recordings when I received a call on Fring (an iPhone app that incorporates Skype and other internet chat programs). Fring had just released a new version of its application that utilizes the video camera on the new iPhone 4. I had downloaded this ( Read more... )

I had quite an involved dream this morning. I dreamt that I walk down the street from our house and ran into a woman with children was having problems with her husband. I engaged in a conversation with her about my mother and her history with abusive men. I pointed out to her that if her husband was likewise such a person, she should probably leave ( Read more... )

And I am addicted to my iPhone. There, I admit it. I know this for a fact now after having gone the better part of a week without my iPhone. Here is my sad story ( Read more... )

It has been amusing to see all the bloviating on the interwebs about Apples new iPad - especially since very few people have had the opportunity to spend any time with it hands-on. Of course, I am not immune to expressing my own opinions about the shiny new beast (see previous entry ( Read more... )

Anyone who has read my blog knows I am very enamoured of my iPhone. I consider it one of the greatest inventions of the human mind ever. I have dreamed of having a miniature computer that does what it does since I first read about “belt-loop computing” in some science fiction novel, and I couldn’t wait until I would have such a thing myself. The ( Read more... )

Back in my working/PC days I used Dragon Naturally Speaking to dictate many of the memos and e-mails that I created for my job. I am happy to report that the new DragonDictate for the iPhone is as good or better than what I was using 10 years ago.

As with any computer-based dictation device this program is not perfect, but it is very, very close to ( Read more... )

I have always been immensely fond of Pride and Prejudice since first reading it on high school. Austen's language, like Shakespeare's, is music to my ears. I often read it aloud just for the sheer pleasure of the sounds represented on the page. I recently finished reading Sense and Sensibility. While on the whole not as humorous as Pride and ( Read more... )

I often have strange dreams. After staying up too late watching True Blood season 2 and eating too much popcorn and pizza, I slept in until 10 this morning. I woke out of a nightmare. . . and since I woke in the middle of it, I remember lots of detail ( Read more... )

The Wonderful World of Audible Books ( Read more... )

I left Stillwater at 6 AM on Sunday morning and drove straight through to Woodstock in 13 hours and 15 minutes. Thanks to my new Garmin GPS I know all the statistics of the trip; my average speed while moving (over 65 mph), average speed overall (over 60 mph), time stopped (55.3 minutes). I did an amazing job considering I ran into a snowstorm in ( Read more... )