Gmail Ink

Did you know you can draw on your iPhone screen in the gmail app. Useful?

Ayrton Senna

"I always had a good life but everything I achieved was through dedication, perseverance and a great desire to achieve my goals, a great desire to win, win in the life, not as a racer. And to everyone who is watching this I tell you whoever you are, no matter what social life position you have, rich or poor, always have a goal, be strong, be determined and always make everything with much love and faith in God, so one day, somehow you'll achieve all your goals." - Ayrton Senna (translated)

Alfred Evernote Extension

I’ve been inspired by Alfred’s new extensions.
After experimenting with some of the extension posted to their blog, I decided to create some of my own.

Create new note in Evernote

Keyword: note

Creates note with the title given

Download: NewEvernote.alfredextension

Call with note then title

Original Idea

You’ll be able to find my Alfred Extensions here

Dreamhost Uptime

Might be the best month yet. Too bad I'll be off shared hosting soon.

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Overview: Average of all checks

Uptime Outages Response time

99.89% 2 244 ms

Checks with downtime

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Dreamhost 99.89% 0h 49m 00s 2 244 ms

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Dropbox is where?

It looks like there is a real problem with the touch screen ordering
system at Terminal 5 JFK.

I hope they do not consider this "Free Range"

Could also be veal...

It makes me sad

Attempt one to install OS/2 on the DECpc 433SLC

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I got an old 486 laptop from a friend.

I started an OS/2 install, but the first floppy is dead. Darn.

I finally got to Muji in NYC. I got some cool new pens.

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Let's do the math Penguin books or is Penguin incompetent or greedy?

View on screencast.com »Amazon Link

The paperback book costs $10.40 on Amazon. This required printing of the books, transportation from China to an Amazon warehouse, For the sake of this comparison, let’s assume this cost Penguin $5.00. Even if Amazon payed them $7.00, this would only leave a profit of $2.00 for penguin assuming no royalty is paid to the author.

The eBook is on sale for $12.99. I’m assuming eBook conversion from the authors word processing file or the press ready file took 8 hours the cost was negligible for the conversion.

H.P. Lovecraft has been dead for 80 years. The rights are very sketchy. Wikipedia has an entire section on it and I’m sure furtherer research would bear similar conclusions. I’m assuming that little if any royalties are paid to anybody for his works.

My conclusion is the Penguin Books is either incompetent or greedy. I’m going to err on the side of greedy since I’m sure it takes some intelligence to run a publishing firm.

Additionally, some additional search brought me to the following alternative copies of the book.

Brewing my first batch of beer

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Nukey Brown Ale from Northern Brewer. This is yet another thing I spent years talking about and finally accomplishing. The next eight weeks can't pass quickly enough.