BurningbirdI imagine this will kick start Kindle sales: MobileRead reports that Oprah Winfrey calls the Kindle her favorite gadget. All due respect to the Big O, I could care less, except that there’s supposedly a $50.00 coupon associated with her favoritism, which you can use when you buy a Kindle. The coupon code is OPRAHWINFREY, lasting […]
I’m incorporating my Just Shelley weblog into my regular feed, and several of the stories showed up “fresh” yesterday. My apologies for your getting inundated with my writing from yesterday. We resolved the planetsvg.org domain. I will be donating the domain to the SVG Interest Group, and they will be creating a Planet SVG as […]
Virginia DeBolt did me the honor of interviewing me for her first Women in Technology series at Blogher. If you’re curious about my early years, my views on the semantic web, women in technology and how to modify the computer tech curriculum in order to obtain greater diversity, whether I like animals more than people, as well […]
Last week I made the switch from NeoOffice to OpenOffice for Aqua on the Mac. I’m impressed with the overall appearance of the application, and the functionality. Most importantly, I was able to process Word documents with templates without problems and without loss of functionality. The application is very fast and responsive on my PowerPC laptops, and […]
This one came up during the tech edit and now during the copy edit on my last book: the use of “curly bracket” as compared to “curly braces” or “brace”. I have used the term “curly bracket” for decades, and have seen the term used in other programming contexts. Wikipedia, though not the definitive source of […]