Tagged: Science and Technology
The angels and the devils are definitely within us, not within the machines we use. – Michael Dertouzos
I’ve been tending to my digital housekeeping this weekend and thought about my digital library (books, newsletters, magazines, etc.). I’ve been using Calibre to manage my large ebooks library for several years. Rather than reinvent the...
Sometimes, you get an asshole selling enterprise IT solutions who won’t take no for an answer and you have to stop being nice. When I was working HR, it was fascinating to me...
This is the station I take home every day. I’m glad I worked late tonight… Unsuck DC Metro About 50 minutes ago, Metro said there were only “residual delays” on the OR/BL/SV after...
Dead Trees and Pixels (or Creativity Is The Real Answer) by James Landrith crustmania / Foter / CC BY The e-books vs. dead tree media discussions and snobbery fascinates me. People frequently post self-congratulatory...
I've written before about organization and data storage with regard to my use of PIMs, PDAs and smartphones (here, here and here). This will be a bird's eye view of my current process. I...
I've been reading ebooks for years – actually since the late 1990s, when I got my first PDA and installed the Peanut Press ereader. The first book I read on a PDA (Palm IIIx)...
I’m a tad frustrated with my webhost for bouncing emails today. For the short-term, please use jlandrith@hotmail.com to reach me…
I recently signed up for a Twitter account. In a word: addictive. From the Twitter Fan Wiki : Twitter is a way of life. It's living with a publicity policy. It's friends, Romans and...
If you know me in meatspace, then you know that since 1996, I am never without my PDA. I started out with a Radio Shack EC-379, switched to a Palm IIIxe, upgraded to a...
My Treo 650 took a header into a wall this morning. The screen was cracked in several places and the casing cracked up around the antenna. To further complicate matters, Verizon Wireless (I have...