Category Archives: technology

Reflections on #blogjune

I found it hard to blog everyday, and didn’t manage to. I’ve been blogging since 2005, and I think it used to be easier to blog everyday. Not sure why, exactly, but this is my theory: There were fewer distractions. In 2005 there was no Twitter, Facebook, Google+…  Hardly anyone in Antipodean Libraryland blogged. RSS [...]

Day 24 #blogjune The Mac

So I have been using this MacBook Pro (MBP) as my main personal/home computer for a couple of weeks now. I was ready for a new computer because my desktop PC was acting up. It had trouble booting up some mornings (would just hang and the restart button would have to be invoked), I had [...]

Impressions of the Sony Daily edition ereader

Now that I’ve read a couple of things on the new ereader, some thoughts on it. I love: The touch screen. I love being able to annotate and highlight pages. End notes actually work well – the Sony displays these as highlights, and touching these will take you to the specific end notes. Being able [...]