http://readthisblog.net Because everyone is entitled to my opinion. Mon, 18 Aug 2008 04:05:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en At the Shir Hadash Hard Hat Ball earlier this year, we signed up for "Hike and Havdalah", and, after a few false starts, the event finally took place yesterday. One of the hosts brought along his GPS, and after the event, sent me a Google image showing where we'd ... http://readthisblog.net/2008/08/17/hike-and-havdalah/ Back in September, 2006, I posted the saga of how I'd solved my printing problems on my Mac mini, running Tiger. But now I'm running Leopard on IBM's laptop and my new iMac, and I've had to revisit the wonderful world of printing. Fortunately, this time around, everything I ... http://readthisblog.net/2008/08/17/in-my-cups-again/ Day 2 of Denvention is in the history book, at least for us - we went on a Haunted Denver tour and decided to blow off the parties. The highlight of the day was the Boca Fandom reunion in the Fanac exhibit area (see below, I hope - I'm writing this ... http://readthisblog.net/2008/08/07/denvention-day-2/ As I write this posting, I am about 38,000 feet above Colorado, on JetBlue flight 169. And, as is usually the case on JetBlue, my TV is on. What's unusual is what I'm watching: live coverage of passengers evacuating American 31, which returned to LAX when they found smoke in ... http://readthisblog.net/2008/08/05/the-world-is-too-much-with-us/ Diane and Jeff gave me Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything http://readthisblog.net/2008/08/01/wikinomics-expanded-edition-a-brief-review/ I'm in transit at LAX on the way home from my father-in-law's 90th birthday celebration in Tucson. I flipped on my iPhone after landing and was greeted by an unexpected menu option: http://readthisblog.net/2008/07/28/something-is-hiding-in-my-iphone/ This is an obligatory test posting from WordPress for iPhone. Move along, move along, there's nothing to see here. http://readthisblog.net/2008/07/24/will-being-able-to-blog-from-anywhere-make-me-more-prolific/ So far, I've resisted the temptation to buy an iPhone 3G, but I did upgrade both my phone and Jeff's to the new software. I cheated and upgraded mine on Thursday -- it was painless, as was the process of picking up some of the free apps from the ... http://readthisblog.net/2008/07/12/iphone-follies/ Late last year, I started blogging about the books I read. It was easy -- I was on vacation. But I had hopes of continuing to do that into this year...those hopes lasted about one week. Even though my reading pace fell off substantially with the return ... http://readthisblog.net/2008/06/20/clearing-the-inbox/ Every year, the members of the World Science Fiction Society choose the Hugo Awards. Most years, I vote in at most one of the Dramatic Presentation categories, but I decided to do better for Denvention and read all of the novels so I could cast an informed vote. This decision ... http://readthisblog.net/2008/06/18/my-recommendations-for-the-best-novel-hugo/ We're in the middle of the graduation fun -- so far today, we've been to Jeff's graduation (photos to come, but not tonight) and to a close friend's graduation party. In a couple of hours, I take Jeff back to school for Grad Night, then tomorrow evening, one of ... http://readthisblog.net/2008/06/15/moving-on/ I've been less than chatty lately, whether here or on Twitter. No particular reason, other than having a lot to do at work, and trying to get back on the GTD wagon (with some success). So here's an instant update of what's near the top of my mind. Jeff's ... http://readthisblog.net/2008/06/13/just-the-headlines/ After Hillary's speech tonight, Diane wanted to give her some advice: "Enough!" So she went to Hillary's website, only to be greeted by a form giving her a choice of exactly one option: "Stay the course." I'm glad that Hillary has learned the lessons of the W presidency so well...because, ... http://readthisblog.net/2008/06/03/advice/ In my exciting last post, I complained about discovering that my 4-year-old Casio digital camera couldn’t handle a 2GB card. I had planned to solve the problem by going back to Radio Shack and buying a couple of 1GB cards, but a different answer presented itself the next morning ... http://readthisblog.net/2008/05/27/breaking-the-1gb-barrier/ I'm fairly happy with my digital camera, a Casio Exilim P-600. It doesn't record sounds any more (that broke early in its life, and an attempt to use Fry's "Performance Guarantee" convinced me never to buy a "Performance Guarantee" again, as well as to buy as little as I ... http://readthisblog.net/2008/05/16/todays-unpleasant-discovery-about-my-digital-camera/ I spent Wednesday and Thursday of this week at the Almaden Institute. This year’s theme was “Innovating with Information”, and I found it to be very interesting. I took notes in three media: Paper — I thought using the notebook they gave us and leaving my laptop in my ... http://readthisblog.net/2008/05/09/notes-from-the-2008-almaden-institute/ Yesterday, I took a brief break at work and tuned into Twitter. One of the first tweets I saw was an Amber Alert with a request to retweet it so that others would see it. A moment later, Twitter user @Pistachio posted “Thanks @dmitrigunn and @joshlarson for help with Amber ... http://readthisblog.net/2008/05/01/innovation-that-matters-courtesy-of-twitter/ As Decision Day (May 1) got closer and closer, Jeff narrowed his choices to two: Tulane and UC Davis (oddly enough, the last two schools we visited). They were very different in some important ways (especially size), but both of them felt good to all of us, especially Jeff. But ... http://readthisblog.net/2008/04/29/college-decision-time/ Tulane was the first university to accept Jeff, so it's somewhat ironic that it's the last place we're visiting. But it takes longer to get here, so we wanted to wait until he was on vacation, and this year, that meant waiting till nearly the end of April because ... http://readthisblog.net/2008/04/21/college-decision-time-a-visit-to-tulane/ Yesterday, it was our turn to visit UC Davis for their “Decision Davis” event, designed to sell the campus to prospective students. We drove up on Thursday night, stopping at China House in Vacaville for dinner - while I wouldn’t make a special trip to eat there, I’d be ... http://readthisblog.net/2008/04/19/college-decision-time-a-visit-to-uc-davis/