Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know I haven’t written anything here this month. I didn’t even sign up. So sue me. I’ll write my 100 words for today and I’ll write them for the next four days, and no-one will ever know. It’s all the same to me. When I first tried this, years ago, 100… Continue reading Beginning 100Words Anew
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Building A Leaf Bin
I hate waste, so autumn drives me kind of crazy. All my neighbours sweep their leaves to the front kerb, where a big borough lorry comes along and sucks them up. Then, in the spring, everyone has a truck load of mulch delivered. I say: stop the insanity! Build a leaf bin! It doesn’t take… Continue reading Building A Leaf Bin
Kindle Software Update
[Updated 9/28/11: Want to read about the Kindle Fire and Kindle Touch? Click here.] Now I’m sure that this is a coincidence, given that Barnes & Noble’s new ereader the Nook comes out today, but I just got an email from Amazon saying that my Kindle now supports PDFs. And you can rotate the screen,… Continue reading Kindle Software Update
Beyond The Backlash of ADHD
For a while now I’ve just been hoping people would stop mentioning the term AD/HD around me.
Last night, instead of burying my head in the sand, I did some actual reading….
Frustration-Free Packaging!
From time to time, standing in my kitchen wielding a blunt pair of scissors or doing the dangerous “Sabatier Knife Trick” on a reluctant package, I have gone off on my rant about how, come the revolution, all manufacturers will be forced to wrap their products in plain sacks … Well, apparently Amazon has read my mind. Again.
Nook – Another New eReader Machine, This Time From Barnes & Noble
In the interests of cutting through the marketing hype, here are my thoughts on the comparison of (the so far unseen by the public) Nook and my Kindle.
Technology!
I’ve just spend an hour trying to solve a problem that was stopping me from logging in here to doing a quick post before I got on with the rest of my day. I solved the problem (which did exist). Sadly, it wasn’t the right problem, and I still couldn’t log in. Then, having eliminated… Continue reading Technology!
Prix Galien Goes To…Promacta!
Eleven or twelve years ago, Kevin spent his days working on making a little chemical compound that he hoped might one day help make sick people better. He told me that most people in his field go through their careers without inventing something that becomes a drug, but that he had a good feeling about… Continue reading Prix Galien Goes To…Promacta!
More Bicycling
We had reached that slow point on Saturday morning where Kev and Angus were starting to yawn, having been up for hours, and where Gregor was just finished breakfast, and where nothing much seemed likely to happen for the next hour or so. So I jumped into some clothes and took my bike out for… Continue reading More Bicycling
You Never Forget
Apparently it’s true: you really do never forget how to ride a bike. I took my new steed out for a trot around the block this evening. Actually, first I encouraged Angus to take his bike around the block. And he made it. Even with the stabilizers on, I ran behind him holding on, because… Continue reading You Never Forget