As this entry is posted, I am again Nook-less. If you recall, Nook #1 met an unfortunate end. Nook #2 was returned mere days after it was purchased, due to the announcement of the Amazon Kindle Fire and my anticipation of Barnes & Noble’s response. As it turned out, my resolve weakened before Barnes & [...] Continue Reading»
My New Nook
After purchasing my Nook Simple Touch, I decided to take a quick picture of it just out of the box with my new Droid 3′s camera. I did rotate, crop and resize the image in order to manage the file size. The next photo is an unaltered image taken with my Droid 3 while my [...] Continue Reading»
Tech Update, October 2011
I thought I’d post a quick tech update since I’ve added some new items to my personal gadget arsenal recently. Last month I had the misfortune to drop and break the screen of my beloved Barnes & Noble Nook e-reader. After superb warranty service from Square Trade, I was ready to buy a new device. [...] Continue Reading»
Do Nooks Dream of Electric Books?
Since I picked it up my Barnes and Noble Nook about 16 months ago, I’d been enjoying the helll out of it! I had close to 200 B&N ebooks loaded onto it, and another hundred or so sideloaded onto a microSD card. I’m happy to say I got more than my money’s worth out of [...] Continue Reading»
Project Epsilon4: It’s ALIVE!
When last seen, epsilon3.5 was almost ready to make way for epsilon4. All that was needed was a new hard drive, a clean install of openSUSE 11.4 and the restoration of all my files from my backups. I was fortunate enough to acquire a 640 GB SATA III drive with a 64 MB cache at [...] Continue Reading»
