Archive for November, 2007

Seattle

Friday, November 30th, 2007

It’s a cold, misty night. Not the kind of cold that makes you wish you were inside, just the kind of cold that makes you happy you’re inside when you get there. I wind up at a small saugage joint and the waitress informs me that a half liter of Hoegarden is $3.50. Sign me [...]

Kindle

Monday, November 19th, 2007

Hmmmm. Hmmmmmmmm.

Pros:

“Free” EVDO: Dunno how “free” just yet, but if it can be configured to access my PDF library on the fly I’ll buy one in a second. Wikipedia Search for free. Pretty nifty. Apparently awesome battery life: one week without wireless on, two days with it on. $13.99 montly NYT access.

Cons:

“Free” EVDO: [...]

Onion Powered My Ass

Thursday, November 15th, 2007

Yesterday a post about an “onion powered iPod” appeared on TUAW (yes I know I shouldn’t be reading TUAW, and this agita is what I get for it). Unforunately, Treehugger has picked this up there may be a legion of folks that believe there’s magic in vidalias (other than their sweet, carmelly goodness). [...]

Papers!

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

Wow this program is great, especially now that it’s not bio-specific. Blows my own online library software away with

Automatic citation importing and pdf indexing Best PDF reading interface I’ve seen yet Cut and paste references Multiple repository search Smart playlists (or collections as they call them)

A few things that need ironing out:

I’ve only got ~30 papers imported so [...]