I don’t take my Kindle everywhere, but it has gotten a lot of use, especially when i know I’m going to have to sit and wait somewhere.    (Like at the hospital.)    Susan and Meredith have used it a little, as has my niece Kay and my mother-in-law, and it looks like we’re getting another Kindle in the family.

In short, Susan is getting a large ( Read more... )

Susan and Meredith got home at dinnertime tonight from their trip to Kansas City, and the weeklong separation was over - and I think Susan and Mere are wiped.  I’ve een taking it *very* easy myself; got the scanner up and running yesterday, but trying to stay off my feet as much as possible.   It’s seeming to do a lot of good on those raw areas on ( Read more... )

…as read by Stephen Fry.   Music and lyrics by AC/DC and Kurt Cobain.

Slashdot discussion on the inevitable takeover of USB 3.0, at your PC store real soon.

One of my great questions: how the heck do they draw stuff  like lines *under* players on a football field or flags *under* speed skating racers on an Olympic track?  Well, the answer is: tech magic, explained here.

Azerbaijan says that they don’t want foreign government stations broadcasting on local FM.

Longtime readers will remember that I’m a big fan of international broadcasting; my parents gave me my first shortwave radio for Christmas, 1968, and the first non-US station I picked up was Radio Havana.  (I have a AM-FM-Shortwave setup in my van, even, and ( Read more... )

Kindle problem #1: The machine has been continually locking up on me. Had to hard reset it several times, and finally called up Kindle Support.

That was actually quite interesting. You go to the Contact Us link, click for a phone call, and it asks for YOUR phone number. Fill that in, and Kindle Support calls YOU. (This was Saturday night, so ( Read more... )

On the way to the airport to pick up Meredith Ellen, I was droning on to Susan and Meredith Grace and Kathy about the new Kindle,  and all that it can do.  (It’s internet-active, and you can tool down the highway and surf the internet…without flash and with problems in rendering graphics and page cosntructs, that’s tricky.)

I then proceeded to read ( Read more... )

This was a very odd Christmas for me; some really high points and low points. Some old traditions unexpectedly brought back, and some things mucked.  Julbord and full holiday report after the cut:

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• Toshiba’s getting out half-terabyte solid-state drives (designed for laptop use…)