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. […]
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Tag: Science and Technology
The angels and the devils are definitely within us, not within the machines we use. – Michael Dertouzos
The Hard Sell is the Devil (or Do Your Damned Homework, You Lazy Software Bum)
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 […]
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DC Metro – FUBAR Again
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” […]
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Dead Trees and Pixels (or Creativity Is The Real Answer)
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. […]
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Floating Away in a Cloud
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 […]
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Another Casualty in the Great Book Wars of the 21st Century (or Backup Your Digital Library, Dummy!)
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 […]
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Twittering Here and There
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. […]
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PDA Odyssey III
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 […]
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PDA Odyssey II
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, […]
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Pocket PCs Join Palm in Susceptibility
New Scientist reports that Handheld PC virus holds ominous promise: The first virus designed to infect handheld devices powered by Microsoft’s Windows CE software has renewed debate over whether a […]
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