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A few years ago, before you could buy Absinthe in the US, I had some shipped to from Spain. I collected a few different bottles of the stuff. Drank it, enjoyed it, and then kind of left it behind. I thought about absinthe today and thought I’d have a glass, and do a little write up about [...] I had a lot of issues with opening PDF in a browser window. Reader settings were set to “open in browser” but pdf links always opened in a separate Reader window. Uninstalling, deleting adobe registry keys and re-installing didn’t work either. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\7.0\Originals\bBrowserIntegration This was 0, [...] I’ve mellowed slightly re: my stance on the iPad. I think it is an overpriced toy, but from playing with it a couple of times, it is a neat one. The fact that it is just an iPod Touch with a large screen doesn’t detract from the fact that that in itself is a pretty neat [...] Imogen Heap‘s last album Speak for Yourself immediately lodged itself into my list of top favorites, and her new release Ellipse is headed right up there with it. She continues to builds songs in clean layers of instruments and vocals with crisp, clear production. Like Speak for Yourself, every track is different from another and hard to pigeonhole [...] According to this Readability Test:this website is just under a 6th grade level. I wonder if I should work on my writing [...] I’ve just started The Vampire Earth series and, so far, it’s been good to me. The setting is a post-apocolyptic America that is ruled by the Kurians. The Kurians live off of a beings “living aura”, which they consume by proxy via Reapers: beings reminiscent of the traditional vampire legends [...] Another recent read – The Johnny Maxwell Trilogy – Three small books by Terry Pratchett, of Discworld fame. These are children’s books, but entertaining nontheless. Only You Can Save Mankind – Johnny gets a copy of the latest video game, but the aliens he’s supposed to be blasting surrender and ask [...] I recently finished Orson Scott Card’s “The Ender Saga”. I’d read Ender’s Game, and Speaker for the Dead, previously. C was listening to these from Audible around the house, and we started Xenocide to pass the time on a trip. When we got back I read the rest of it and the final book, Children of [...] Orson Scott Card’s “Treason” is a page by page rewrite of an earlier work of his, and a great book. [...] Deleted all my imported LiveJournal posts and comments. [...] |
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