Lessons from the school of W.

Me, Apprx. 4am: Could you burp for me?  Please?  Daddy would really love to go back to bed right now.*

Dubya: Rrraaarghh!!

Me: Really, this would be better for all concerned if you didn’t guzzle your bottle, and burped quickly.  So much more comfortable for you, and we would all be so much happier.

D: *Headbut* (Which I interpret as: “do you honestly believe this is up for negotiation?  It’s my party, and I’ll spew if I want to!”)  Rraaarghh!

*This conversation actually took place.  Well… my part, anyway.

Filed under: Family, dribble, experiences , fatherhood, newborns

Google Wave

I’m on… and confused. Anybody else there?

Filed under: Uncategorized , communications technology, Email, Google Wave

Easy reading?

I read a lot of articles online for my work – usually in the pdf form.  It’s why I’m waiting for the Kindle DX to be introduced next year, instead of splashing out for a Kindle now.

However, here’s a problem that I’d like to see a solution to, whatever electronic thingy I happen to read with: Display two non-consecutive pages at once.  From what I understand, I can’t do this in Acrobat Reader, or on a Kindle.  The reason?  I read articles and books that have notes – usually endnotes.  To be able to read the text, and read the notes with out tiresome flicking between the two, it would be handy to display both pages at once.  If anyone has a solution to this, I would love to know it.  Until then, it seems that electronic media, in this instance, is less sophisticated than a plain, printed, document.

Filed under: books , Adobe Acrobat query, Australian Kindle, e-books, Electronic reading, Kindle DX, PDF documents