So, after my crippling disappointment with the Kobo, I went to Dick Smith and bought myself an 8GB iPod Touch, because DSE were having a sale on them, which meant it cost $4 more than a Kobo would have, plus I got a bunch of free accessories with it ( Read more... )

I dropped into Whitcoulls today to have a play with their Kobo e-reader ( Read more... )

So Whitcoulls/Borders in Oz and NZ have released their e-book store on an amazed public, along with their re-branded Kobo e-reader ( Read more... )

I wonder if having instant 24-7 access to news from all over the world makes us a happier people. I strongly suspect not, since the news is pretty much a constant barrage of misery, venality and brutality - and when you're watching or reading it, you know that it's happening right now and there's nothing you can do about it. Seriously, what a ( Read more... )

I am stagnating. I've done little creative for a while now, and it's making me feel both gloomy and twitchy ( Read more... )

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I've been in bed with a cold for pretty much the whole week; this is my first day up, and I'm feeling distinctly shakey. It's not often that illness actually keeps me bedridden, thank goodness, because if I'm ill enough to be thus confined, I'm ill enough that I can't enjoy reading or watching movies or doing any of the things that make being in ( Read more... )

I'm not doing much with LiveJournal these days. Partly it's because my blogging is really mostly devoted to nerdy gaming stuff at my Nerditorium, but also because I can hardly ever load LJ in my browser these days. It usually times out, or returns an error message telling me that Something Has Gone Wrong ( Read more... )

I believe I mentioned, at exactly this time last year, and possibly the year before that, how little I enjoy the jocular pranksterism that infests the internet when April rolls around. I don't find them amusing, I find them annoying.

Bah, humbug.

I did not think they could do much to make Christchurch airport more horrible, impersonal and alienating, but they've really managed to pull one out of the bag on that score. Available parking is getting further and further away from the terminal buildings, and the terminals themselves are full to overflowing with crowds of people who appear to ( Read more... )