Monthly Archives: August 2013

HTC memory cleanup or…

…an app too far? Suspicious of some of these #’s. Better speed post cleanup? Yep.

A few shots from the terrace

Sf/Oakland foggy again this am. Nice.

1st Dearborn bikeway

Two different detours eastbound (Italy street festival, Greek street festival) landed me on Dearborn. Confusing lights at 1st. More at tribune here.

1st Seitan

Or view in separate page here

e-reader snl “really? w/seth & amy moment

Continuing to spend a little time w/e-reader options & issues – thanks cpl 3 reserve limit!  😉 Short form –  it is possible to overcome commercial e-reader (kindle) nonsensical block of basic copy/paste functionality.       Paste to google doc.        

Ereaders & reference materials

Dictionaries, highlights & internet lookups. A brief review – my primary motivations for looking more deeply into ereader & ereader conversion – CPL 3 title reserve cap. 2ndary – seen here – local dictionary & internet (wikipedia or overall internet) for unknown terms. Conveninent.           One more…”Faux”. 

This could be an interesting development

Via economist.com article. ZocDoc, an American health tech company, allows potential patients to search for a physician by location, speciality or the type of insurance they accept. Patients can schedule an appointment on their smartphones. Investors including Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, have put $95m into ZocDoc since its launch in 2007. The company claims […]

Noodling with epub, calibre & kindle (droid)

A bit on the geeky side but not too difficult to get kindle (droid) to let me add an elibre title to library. Some additional reference on elibre & kindle here. Visuals to come. Fyi – mechanics – default “send to device” destination for me is a folder titled “kindle”. Was briefly concerned about “main […]

Strictly for testing – twitter

I’ll see if I can find the PBS (?) documentary where they talked to the twitter guy. Billion dollar valuation? Really? What I got out of the documentary – concept for twitter came from his hobby (?) of monitoring emergency services communication – police, fire, ambulance… How often & how many of us truly have […]

This does not sound good

Via nytimes.com today. The limit on out-of-pocket costs, including deductibles and co-payments, was not supposed to exceed $6,350 for an individual and $12,700 for a family. But under a little-noticed ruling, federal officials have granted a one-year grace period to some insurers, allowing them to set higher limits, or no limit at all on some […]