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DxF2009, Utrecht: “All the time in the world”
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1. This is really bad ass.
2. I now believe that the song “We Diden’t Start the Fire” by Billy Joel is one of the greatest songs to run to. DON’T YOU EVEN GIVE ME THAT SNARKY LOOK!
Listen… I know that might sound kind of nuts, but it is the truth. [...]

I woke up today before my alarm started to tell me that it was time to wake up, and I knew that something what is up with me today, something seemed off… The feeling that something was wrong grew as I got ready to leave my house and go to work.
When I wake [...]

There was a really cool short post over on the O’Reilly Tools of Change blog today about eBook piracy.
The main argument of this post is:

“The reason there’s an “exponential” increase in piracy of ebooks is because there’s an exponential increase in demand for ebooks:”

The New York Times also talked about this. [...]

Today on my way into work I stopped at a Starbucks. I was going to stop at Dunkin Donuts, but I was not in the best of moods, so I decided to treat myself to what I consider a more “high end” coffee beverage.
What I ordered was a
1. Grande (medium)
2. [...]

In my last post I mentioned that before I bought my K1 (original Kindle) I was seriously thinking about buying a Sony eReader 505.  One thing that I did not mention in the last post was that the Sony was the device  that embraced the open .EPUB format (in fact it embraced damn near every [...]

Recently I found out that people are boycotting any eBook that is being sold on Amazon if it costs more than $9.99. 
From the link above:
Charging $11 for a paperback novel — without the paperback! — is ridiculous. Charging $18 for a digital version of a book that relies [...]

I’m a big fan of The Book Oven Blog. Huge fan.
Every now and then I’m lucky enough to have something that I write show up on that blog. In fact, I think that the best writing that I have done on the web is over on The Book Oven Blog.
If [...]