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”.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The settlement in a Facebook privacy case allots nothing to the plaintiffs and about $2.3 million to their lawyers. From nytimes.com today.
Off topic post via Crain’s & Chicago Tribune. “I guess this is just going to be a city for wealthy people, that’s where we’re headed,” she said. What? There’s no suggestion people aren’t speeding…pretzel logic required to get to “just…wealthy people” statement? My experience – the more expensive the car – the more traffic laws […]
In spite of what feedly says – search is NOT a premium item. Keeping old reader in back pocket if this gets too annoying.
An observation on an ongoing silliness among software vendors. A lot of the JAVA NSA roots revolve around “opt out” defaults. Another quarter heard from – adobe flash. Bloat by default
She observes well. But in other ways, Hillary is not such a natural successor. The Clintons are ends-justify-the-means types with flexible boundaries about right and wrong, while the Obama mystique is the opposite. His White House runs on the idea that if you are virtuous and true and honorable, people will ultimately come to you. […]
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