Archives for the 'Internet' Category
Don’t Miss the Readability Plug-In: David Pogue was right
New York Times columnist David Pogue ran his 5th annual list of great tech ideas and concluded with the “Readability” plugin tool that takes an article you’ve found worth clicking on and transforms it into a full screen, big print, easy-to-read-and-focus-on pleasure without blinking ads, too-small font and a dozen other distractions.
It takes moments to [...]
FOUND! That childhood book I couldn’t remember…
For any of you interested in my quest to find a childhood book that I couldn’t identify, my sanity has been saved by the father/son team of Jerry and David Daniel.
Jerry spied my plea for help on Facebook and made it his personal mission to help me find it, and then David identified it immediately [...]
The lack of persistence of childhood memories
As a parent, watching my kids grow bumps into memories of my own childhood, sometimes with stark clarity and sometimes like when you forget about that top step when walking up a staircase in a dream.
Now that my eight year old girl has become a big reader, I find myself remembering the books that I [...]
Open Letter to Jeff Bezos: Please Create an Amazon.com Tip Jar
In which the blogger begs Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos to help keep independent bookstores alive by creating an Amazon.com Tip Jar.
On the Pleasures of Re-Reading vs. Blogging
On a recent road-trip with my eight-year-old daughter, H, we visited with a favorite former student of mine, Y, who is now a high-test corporate attorney. We met at the Emeryville Barnes & Noble and as we wandered, picking up fresh books for H, Y mentioned that she never re-reads novels, always preferring something new.
My [...]
