Archive for May, 2009

Amazon is listening

There’s a new application at http://kindle.amazon.com where you can view all of the notes and highlights that you’ve made while reading on your kindle. This is a great first step. It is just a first step though and they need to add a bit more functionality to this application such as sending these notes out [...]

Is Obama playing with the courts?

There have been a couple of actions taken by the Obama Administration that have left people scratching their heads. The first occurred soon after taking office when his Justice Department, instead of doing as everyone thought that they would and not continuing Bush’s State Secrets claims, instead pushed the idea of State Secrets even further [...]

Shuttle Launch

I caught the space shuttle launch live on the news today and it’s a mighty impressive sight, watching live on the cameras as the Earth pulls away into the background. It’s such a crazy thing to watch, everything seems to be so close to the edge between control and disaster. It’s a bit emotional to [...]

New kindle coming soon

Just saw the specs on the new kindle that amazon is getting ready to release and I’m pretty excited. Some of the items that I’m looking forward to are the larger screen, native support of pdf, book search and annotation. One area that the new kindle will need to improve, that I didn’t hear mentioned, [...]