Legend has it that when Thomas Edison created his phonograph he conceived of it as a method to record and playback messages between individuals. Legend also has it that Alexander Graham Bell envisioned the telephone as a device useful for transmitting…
One of the traumas of moving to an eReader such as an Amazon Kindle is that you have no more books to display on your bookshelves. Bookshelves can be a trauma in their own right, as my friend Lee Wochner…
I couldn’t understand it, as soon as I started to thank my third grade teacher, I was applauded off the stage… It was a fun event, replete with interesting anthropological studies of authors, publicists and various posses and hangers-on. The food…
Our Fuso is still in South America. We’ve had some issues with the American shipping company we contracted to ship the truck from Guayaquil, Ecuador to Long Beach, California. It has been a very challenging and stressful experience so far,…
How The World Works, one of the books I wrote last year, won a 2009 IPPY silver medal. There were 4,090 entrants for all categories in the awards. How The World Works tied for second place in its category, Juvenile-Teen-Young…
Check out this home page: http://www.lijit.com/ Tell me if you have a friggin’ clue what they do. So, since it’s a huge mystery, you click on “about” http://www.lijit.com/about I don’t know that I’ve ever read anything that said so much…
Here’s an update on My Life With Kindle After a little less than one month of use, my Kindle 2 died. It was a horrible, distorted death, manifested by the unfortunate Lewis Carroll as illustrated here: For those of…
“In the next 12 months there will be a zettabyte of information on the Internet.” – Dr. James Baty, VP and chief technology officer (CTO) of Sun Microsystems. A zettabyte is the equivalent of 1 billion terabytes. Just a few…
Someday, we will all look back and reflect on how significant it was that we lived through the death of the American newspaper industry. Right now, however, it is pretty traumatic for those of us who grew up with a…
Because our intention is to continue traveling overseas, Steph spent a lot of time iterating with Amazon sales and tech support to work out a viable scenario for using the K2 outside the U.S. There are specific limitations to using…