Amazon’s Kindle is appropriately named, as to kindle means to “catch fire” or to “cause to start burning” (Wordnet 3.0, n.d.). The newest generation of Kindle products support the downloading of books without even having a computer connection, allowing the consumer to get a new book “anytime, anywhere” (Amazon.com: Kindle, 2009). At first glance, this …
August 2009 archive
Aug 30 2009
Arch Linux server maintenance page
You may look at the title and wonder why I didn’t post this topic under “Computers” or even the “Linux” subtopic. My reasoning is that this isn’t really any type of discussion relating to computers, but rather just an image that I found to be priceless. Instead of just making their “server down for maintenance” …
Aug 28 2009
My podcast on LinuxCrazy
Hello all, Yesterday (Thursday, 27 August 2009), David Abbott from LinuxCrazy, and Gentoo-PR interviewed me for his 62nd podcast. We discussed many aspects of Gentoo, including my involvement with the fora, documentation, project strengths, areas of concern, Openbox and LXDE, and more. This is a two-part podcast, and the first portion is an interview with …
Thought for the Moment
