Tag Archives: netbook

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 [...]

Commercial response to free

I have been reading and commenting a lot lately about the free alternatives to commercial information products (e.g., newspapers, textbooks). My latest read is Curt Bonk’s “The world is open” (ironically a book I bought). We have been attempting to get our publisher to consider a different model for some years without much luck. However, [...]