So, my employer is not evil, I can keep the blog, it was all a big misunderstanding. No, really. Oh, yeah, I’m confused too, but I’m more feeling a bit silly about the whole thing. Though it was good to realize that I did care about this blog and wanted to continue it, despite not having a lot to talk about lately.
In removing the posts from this blog I accidentally switched their publication dates to April 25, 2010 (WordPress Fail!), so now I have to fix them with a backup. It sure would be useful if there were a DBA around to help me do that…
So, yeah, stuff.
Did I ever mention that I bought a Kindle? I’ve heard that the ones they ship to Canada have the browsers removed, or only Wikipedia works, but I had mine shipped to a friend’s house in Seattle (to save on shipping and GST) and I picked it up from him at the MySQL conference, so it still has a browser. Score! Unfortunately it’s pretty slow, so I can’t see it being useful, but, it has a browser! It’s like I won something almost!
I am digging it. I got it so that I could read fiction when waiting for the bus, or for the plane, or whatever else I’m waiting for. Also so that I could carry around tech manuals, because you wouldn’t believe how often I’m at work and wanting to consult a book I have at home. And I can’t just carry them around, have you seen the size of the MySQL Administrator’s Bible? You could bench-press that thing! And it’s too thick for my cat to properly lie on it, a la:
(Everything I own is potential cat furniture. But I keep the Kindle in my purse for its protection.)
I am liking the Kindle, though. It doesn’t have the glitter and flair of Apple products but it does win out on being convenient. And I already have 3 iPods, so I can’t get any cooler without dishing out for an iPad. And I don’t like to buy first generation.
Hi Shebang! Glad you and your mom can stick around!
I was less than impressed with my Kindle experience. It went something like this:
1. Turn Kindle on, go to bookstore to try and get books.
2. Notice there’s no cellular signal in the house.
3. Walk out front door, wave Kindle around for a minute until the cellular gods are kind enough to give me a connection.
4. Walk back inside, frantically try to access Amazon store in the 15 seconds I have a signal.
5. Repeat steps 2-4 until ready to fling Kindle out the window.
6. Hey, look at that crisp display.
@Darren I’m not sure how the cell signal problem is the Kindle’s fault? Unless you’re saying that its 3G is crap. I don’t know, I haven’t tried buying anything with it yet, I had books already on my iPod Touch that I just synced over.
Its 3g was a bit crap, though the area I was in also isn’t the best for cellular connections (though, funnily, the iPhone I was using in the same house worked just peachily). It was mainly that in order to get anything on to the Kindle, I was relying on the flaky cell connection, which made things frustrating.
Aside from the cell issues though, I’m still not won over by e-readers. I borrowed a Sony eReader a little while back for a couple months as well, and went back to paper books afterwards. Though the Kindle was marginally better, neither of them felt quite right in the hand compared to reading a paper book.
i have the first model Sony E-Book so i can’t do anything fancy with it, but i still holds a a crap load of books has an MP3 player and i can get PDFs for it. i want a Kindle pretty bad but that won’t happen cause i have the E-Book. i do end up flying a lot so it’ll get used i’ve only read one book on it thus far. i haven’t been visibly around in so long i lost the link to my blog. i will earn it back!