Daily Archives: July 14, 2011
Why I Now Despair For webOS
Interview: HP’s Stephen DeWitt and Jon Rubinstein on webOS, the death of Palm, and partnering with Amazon So the development of webOS is being driven by Ari (Jaaksi). Ari has been driving it for the last seven months, and he … Continue reading
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The Truth Of Being A Writer
You write it because you have to, and then if you're lucky someone will give you money or a sandwich.— colson whitehead (@colsonwhitehead) July 14, 2011 All of you think you’re going to hit it big and get rich. Better … Continue reading
This Is What Twitter Does Not Want To Happen, Part Five
OK, this is just plain embarrassing: Click = big I clicked to go to best-selling writer Colson Whitehead’s Twitter page and got that. For the past half hour, Twitter has been having a sort of meltdown, throwing out error messages … Continue reading
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New Sony Reader(s) In August
Sony Preparing New E-Book Reader to Challenge Amazon It’s about bloody time we had some word! I’d just about written Sony out of the picture. A Comment here stated that the tsunami screwed-up Sony. Their production line was in an … Continue reading
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NYPL And NYC Budget Cuts
Just got this via email: July 14, 2011 Dear New Yorker, When the City Council began budget negotiations in February, we were presented with a preliminary budget that included, among other things, a 29 percent cut to the City’s libraries. … Continue reading
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Movie: Space Battleship Yamato
I liked Star Blazers. Saw it when it originally ran in America. So I had high hopes for this. They were all misplaced. This was way too long, way too slow, and also changed the original story too much. I … Continue reading
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WordPress Was Down
WordPress was down for a bit yesterday, Wednesday July 13, and I went offline before it came back up. I see I have Comments backlogged. Will get to them later.
Filed under Blog Notes
