Boys Day Out
I had lunch today with three of my friends: John, Mel, and Larry. We go out once a month to someplace near work. We started doing this about a year ago, both to break up the routine of eating in our...
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A Raft of Readers, a Flock of Formats
Telephone Wires In 1890 I’ve seen a lot of press of late claiming this is the year of the ebook reader, and by extension the year of the ebook. Publisher’s Weekly recently ran a handy listing of the...
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Looky, Looky, I’ve Got Nooky
and Kindle too. The Nook and Kindle side by side. My cup runneth over. Two days after my wife bought me a NOOKcolor (or is that a nookCOLOR?) for Christmas I won a Kindle via an online contest over at...
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5 New Year’s Resolutions for Barnes & Noble
I did not make any new year resolutions this year. I meant to, really, but somehow time just slipped away from me and I never got around to it. You know what? It’s a very liberating feeling. Just...
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#fridayflash collector moved
I’ve moved the Collector. It’s new URL is http://madutopia.com/ffcollector/tiki-view_tracker.php?trackerId=2&sort_mode=f_13_asc&status=o Jon has told me that several people have inquired about...
View ArticleThere’s Not An App For That
There was an interesting article and followup over on Seeking Alpha about the NookColor and Barnes & Nobel’s development strategy, or apparent lack thereof. The article, Nook Needs an App Store to...
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Piece Of Cake
All I wanted to do was put Linux on an old laptop. Easy, right? Ha. I started out by watching some YouTube videos on how to install Ubuntu Linux. Me, listening to instructions. Who would have ever...
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Woo Hoo!
Oh the sweet taste of success. In my previous post I detailed my trials and tribulations in trying to reconfigure an old Windows NT laptop into a Linux Ubuntu laptop. After all the YouTube tutorials,...
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Sit. Stay. Good Dog.
I just got a new shinny toy, a Toshiba Satellite P-55 running Windows 8. While not quite as warm and fuzzy as a new puppy, it’s still exciting, and it doesn’t pee on the carpet. Like a new puppy, it...
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So, Metro Apps suck.
Other than that, Windows 8 seems fine. Metro Apps are those funky looking boxes you see plastered all over the start screen, as shown in the graphic to the right. If your computer is touch sensitive...
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