The other day I mentioned the Sony Reader for reading stuff on the go. After a little more research and wading through tons of negative comments about Sony’s offering, I came across The iLiad. Similar concept, but may be better executed. It appears to read PDF, XHTML, TXT, etc. as well as having 802.11g built in. This looks a lot more exciting; hopefully the cost will make it affordable to mere consumers like me.
I restored my PowerBook’s hard drive to the state it was on Saturday before it crashed using the most excellent SuperDuper!. If you aren’t doing regular backups (daily), then you are asking for trouble. There are 2 kinds of computer users; those that have lost data and those that will.
I have a pile of stuff to read on my computer’s desktop (technical stuff) that I just haven’t gotten around to reading. I don’t want to print it out and I don’t want to read it on my computer. I never considered a dedicated “eBook” reader, but the Sony Reader device announced at CES looks like it could meet my needs.
Today on my way to run some errands, I passed by Serra High School and read their fairly new electronic sign. One of the messages on it had the current temperature listed as +266 degrees F. Wow! That is really hot and sure didn’t feel like it. My car’s thermometer indicated it was about 64 degrees F. I suspect that the 2 was just a mistake and that its thermometer wasn’t completely broken.
I managed to replace the hard drive in my PowerBook with a Hitatchi Travelstar 7200 RPM, 80 GB drive. The instructions from www.pbfixit.com were excellent as well as their screw guide which I used to dutifully place and tape all the screws I removed. The drive is now formatted and appears to work. I still have to wait until tomorrow morning to get my backup and restore it. I completely understand the warning “no user serviceable parts inside”. Replacing a hard drive in a laptop takes time and patience.