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Monthly Archives November 2009

Bye, Bye Bunny

Bunny – bye Originally uploaded by grabe Sad news tonight. Bunny is gone. Olive took bunny on a trip to Colorado and lost him in the Minneapolis airport. Despite the efforts of those boarding the flight to Denver bunny could not be found. Bye, bye bunny – we all miss you. Thanks for being a [...]

Posted 29 November 2009 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

Netbook – Take 2

Cindy bought me a new netbook for my birthday. As is our custom, I actually picked it out and I am using it a week before my birthday. Not that romantic, but quite practical. This is a Lenovo S10-2 with one gb ram and a 160 gb hard drive. It is presently running Windows 7 [...]

Posted 20 November 2009 † grabe § New Software/Hardware ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Work Flow

My free time until Dec. 1 is going to have to be focused on a writing project and this focus will likely limit my blogging productivity. We are working on a new model for our book and the company wants some samples to help reviewers understand our proposal. I would rather just sign a contract, [...]

Posted 15 November 2009 † grabe § New Software/Hardware ‡ Comments (0) °

Notes on Kindle

I like to personally try things I write about. Really. I think it is important to have spent enough time with a product or service to understand the experience rather than to rely on the comments of others. I admit that I also like to explore new technology. eBook readers have been one area of [...]

Posted 09 November 2009 † grabe § New Software/Hardware ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Commonplacing

I have been reading Robert Darnton’s “The case for books” on Cindy’s Kindle (there is something quite ironic here, but now is not the time to explore). Tech types may immediately shy away, but Darnton has a very interesting history including working on the Google book digitization project and the commitment of Harvard to offer [...]

Posted 04 November 2009 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

This is starting to make a little more sense

From the beginning, Twitter has had me somewhat befuddled. The 140 character limit seemed – well, limiting. I have settled into checking my feed a couple of times a day and I do pick up some useful links in this fashion. The new “lists” feature sounded interesting and I immediately created a list, but again [...]

Posted 03 November 2009 † grabe § New Software/Hardware ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Web publishing and authoring tools

The Mozilla project just released Sea Monkey – the newest version of the integrated web suite from the open source provider. I am not aware of the origin of the name, but this product appears as the updated version of a product that has been around for some time. At one time I was a [...]

Posted 02 November 2009 † grabe § New Software/Hardware ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: