Amazon lowered the price on the 6″ Kindle 2 yesterday from $359.00 down to $299.00. I love my Kindle as I think it is a great enabler for people who want to read. There have been some discussions (here) over the past week about whether or not reading books is dying out, especially among techie types. My answer is definitly no! I attribute that answer 100% to the Kindle. The Kindle makes it so easy to look up a book you are reading about or maybe just saw in a store and buy it right then and there.
If you don’t already have a Kindle, but have been considering one, now is a good time to jump at the opportunity with the reduced price point.
http://bit.ly/13bsnF Some interesting history here I was not aware of. I still use Google for almost everything, but I can see a day them I will turn to Facebook for more. I certainly turn to FB for more personal interactions.
I am not using Firefox to much recently as Chrome has become my default browser, but I do still like to use some extensions which keeps Firefox installed on most of my computers. I don't use too many, and they typically are installed to help me either collect or consume information better. I put together my current set of extensions using the new Firefox Collections tool. Noting terribly shocking in the collection, but I think this is a good set if you want to keep your extensions to a minimum. I supplement these extensions with a few bookmarklets.
Bit.ly Sidebar – Which makes it easy to send links to Twitter, Facebook or via Gmail. Note in Reader – This is mostly replaced by Feedly, but sometimes I use it when I am having issues with the Feedly minibar. Amazon Wish List – I use Amazon to track the things I want to buy for myself and others. Facebook - Sometimes I post directly to Facebook. Posterous- I am playing with Posterous to make posting to my blogs and various services easier.
New music time, and this month I kept to my usual grabbing more downtempo music, and keeping to female fronted bands. I am sure I am missing out on some amazing stuff…
I finished off Elsiane's Hybrid album, I had three tracks left on the album after last month. By the way, I REALLY like this album It is one of the best I have downloaded in recent months. I also grabbed Akasha by Isobella and Different Shade of Beauty by Tearwave.
100% agree on this whole article. Especially where it discusses the accessibility to new GM’s. I remember trying to customize things in 3.5, and I was very put off of DM’ing. I have no such troubles in 4e. I modify almost every enemy I use, and I have been changing rules and some of the pre-published modules for every session. The best thing I can say is that from an accessibility standpoint the rules in the DM Guide just work.
One of the new features on Windows 7 is the way the start menu works. Some applications have an arrow next to them in the start menu, and when you hover on them they start menu changes to show you things like recently opened files. I was surprised to notice today that the beta of the Dungeons & Dragons character builder works with this new feature. Makes for a very fast access to your most recently used characters.
Came across this article/picture in my feeds this morning. Navigate to the site, and click on the picture to get a good look. The author of the article was correct, it does look like piles of ants. Makes my wonder if there is a computer program that could take this type of high resolution image and count the number of people who were in attendance.
Today is the start of a Saturday tradition that I am sure will last for many, many years. Today is the start of Saturday morning swim lessons. We will surely advance to tball, soccer and baseball practice. Saturdays will never be the same.
I will need to focus on getting up earlier on Saturdays so that I have a little more time before I need to get going. I have not even had my coffee yet.
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