An online acquaintance of mine, Becky Hogge, has released a book! Barefoot Into Cyberspace tells the story of the “hacker scene” over the tumultuous last few years. Yesterday, Becky released a transcript of her interview with Julian Assange – in it he discusses the News of the World hacking, amongst other things. A fascinating interview [...]
As you may have guessed from previous posts, I love my Kindle. I often read late into the night, which either means keeping a light on and annoying my wife – or using a book light. Normally, I’d be happy just annoying her – but I can’t resist the allure of buying new technology! I [...]
As I’ve mentioned before, Jasper Fforde is one of my favourite authors. His latest book “One of Our Thursdays is Missing” is a brilliant work of fiction – but contains a rather worrying flaw. Well, I say a “worrying flaw” – I mean an error. All books contain errata – I think that’s a given [...]
It emerged this morning* that the Guardian newspaper has realised that the way it writes is unsuitable for the web. *Source: Guardian Newspaper, 18/11/2011, page http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/mind-your-language/2011/feb/18/mind-your-language-day-date-time By using non-specific language, I have introduced a degree of ambiguity which makes it hard for reader – both in the present day and the future – to understand [...]
For years I’ve been mildly obsessed with the Voynich Manuscript. An ancient book, written in a language no one can decipher, showing plants which don’t exist, and measuring astronomical configurations which make no sense. The book is an enigma. Many think it to be an elaborate hoax – others have more…. esoteric explanations. Regardless of [...]
I’ve just taken delivery of a shiny new Amazon Kindle 3. I’m looking forward to giving it a thorough review – but here’s a quick comparison between it and my venerable Elonex 511EB. I’ve just taken delivery of a shiny new Amazon Kindle 3. I’m looking forward to giving it a thorough review – but [...]
Like many people, I’ve been frustrated by the lack of firmware updates to the Elonex 511EB ebook reader. There are several bugs which are frustrating to many users – as judged from the comments on this blog. With the Amazon Kindle dropping to a lower price, this ebook reader really needs to be updated if [...]
I was pleasantly surprised to see this poster at my local train station. Looks like Surrey Library is moving to the digital age. “Bet the site doesn’t work on my phone,” I thought. I was wrong! Overall, this is a brilliant new service. A great initiative to get people reading more books and improving library [...]
So, the Kindle finally launches in the UK. This blog has become something of a Mecca for users of the Elonex 511EB. The comments on my reviews run in to the hundreds, I get thousands of page views a month on them, I regularly answer private emails about the device. So, why am I abandoning [...]
Well, it’s been ages coming, but it’s finally here. Elonex have released V0.47 of the 511EB software. V0.47 was released on 12th March 2010. The previous firmware (V0.41) was released on 18th January 2010. The next release should include note taking functionality. You may be interested in part 1 and part 2 of my review. [...]
Jasper Fforde releases upgrade patches for his books. If he has made an error of fact, created a plot hole or missspelt a word – you can download an upgrade for your book. How cool is that? He also has a “cut scenes” repository where you can see the chapters which were cruelly cut by [...]
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