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eBooks ReDooks

Janet sent me some links to a couple of articles and blog postings about some new developments in the eBooks realm. This Teleread blog entry pretty much sums things up and has links to the other stories and posts. The gist of things is that Amazon is planning on launching it’s own eBook [...]

The Language Of Loss

My hit count really goes down when I talk about music (or movies, or television…), but I don’t care. Suck it, plebes. Lately I’ve been really getting into the Texas band Voxtrot. Really, really getting into them. They’ve got three EPs and a full length album out, and all of it [...]

I Scream For RapidScreen

Pet Peeve Of The Day: Colorado RapidScreen. Well, actually, RapidScreen is pretty cool. I just don’t understand why they don’t use it for normal emissions testing.
So, here’s the deal. In Colorado, we have the Air Care Colorado program, where you have to get your auto emissions checked like every two years in [...]

Books Vs eBooks

I’m reading Olympos again. It’s the sequel to Illium, a science fiction story about the Trojan War getting hijacked, among other things. If this post is correct, I started reading this book almost two years ago. I know I’ve started over at least once. And I’m not sure I’ve read any novels [...]

Upgrading Again

I’m trying out a new WordPress theme or two here, so don’t get too freaked out. But, as usual, do let me know if there are problems posting comments or if something looks too weird or whatever.
Things I accomplished today besides playing around with WordPress:

On-Call duties.
Re-did my PC backup jobs to take the new [...]

As The World Turns

Too tired to blog…
But let me just say this about the news this week… OJ Simpson? Britney Spears? What is this, the late 90s? Thank God for Google Earth satellites (which can photograph the angel on the head of a pin) and the genetic disposition for loneliness/sickness.
Pet Peeve Of The Day: The 24-hour [...]

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