Apr 30 2008
My daughter and I are suckers for a good vampire story (or movie, for that matter). It all began with Anne Rice’s “Interview With the Vampire.” Come to think of it, when I was a kid, I loved watching the Vampire movies on the Saturday Movie Matinee on TV. Continue Reading »
Mar 24 2008
Last Saturday I was browsing through the local Borders Bookstore and came across at title I had been considering during a recent Amazon.com visit. I didn’t purchase it from Amazon because I really wanted to look at this book in person before committing to the purchase. I was pleased to see it on the shelf.
Mar 19 2008
Nightshade Free Pain Free
Author: Michael Fowler
- Paperback: 204 pages
- Publisher: Grass Fire Media (August 1, 2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 097977280X
An overview of how nightshades plants (potato, tomato, eggplant, etc) in the diet may be a leading cause of many “incurable” diseases, such as arthritis, irritable bowel syndrome, migraines memory loss, chronic fatigue, and more. (Thyroid/Grave’s Disease symptom trigger too)
Jan 29 2008
Last week I cancelled my Kindle eBook reader order at Amazon. It felt a bit strange doing this. And I knew that if I should change my mind, the delivery wait would begin all over again.
Why did I cancel? Lack of books that I required. These are books that are work-related and hobby related. Books on xHTML, CSS and standards. The current ones. Books on Apple’s OS X Leopard - the latest operating system for my Mac computer. In searching through the Kindle eBook offerings, I find only OS X Tiger.
As of today, Amazon lists 5,065 ebooks in the Computers And Internet category. Of those, 138 titles are listed in Operating Systems and a mere 7 for Mac OS. When you drill down, you find two titles that are specifically about the OS. The remaing titles are more concerned with programmng in Cocoa and learning about XCode. There are no current ebook titles that cover Leopard (OS X 10.5.x)
For one week, I searched for books that I wanted to read - mostly computer or hobby related (I like to make soap in my spare time). I found none for the Kindle. It was not a good sign. I read so little fiction - and this seems to be the area where Kindle shines.
So it was with much regret that I logged in to my Amazon account and began the cancellation process. I know that I will probably order one again, but only after the publishing houses and authors are able to come to terms with this option and release their current titles right along with their print editions. And perhaps also when generation 2is released.