Month: November 2003

“I need a mouse adaptor, please. Female to male.”
“I’m sorry, sir, but that is politically incorrect language.”
“Uh, ok, um, lemme see. Can I please have a mouse adaptor where one end has pins sticking out and one end has holes to fill.”
“You trying to be funny with me, boy?”
“Ugh, ok, never mind. Just give me a master/slave controller.”
“That’s it, I’m calling the police, pervert!”

I swear, it’s only on Slashdot that political correctedness becomes a i’ll-race-you-to-the-better-joke championship.

For most people reading – serious reading – implies books. For me, mostly due to necessity, serious reading nowadays implies whole nights staring at my 17-incher. At first, I missed the yellow paper, I missed turning pages – I missed my bookmark, I missed chewing on some passages and quickly poking at others to really enjoy the book. For all the wonders of digital text, computer reading is so terribly sequential – you press Page Down to go to the next page or you press the down arrow to scroll. With a book, you flick – so! – and the pages rush at you with an exhiliration that even 17 inches of real estate can’t beat.

A book is superior, at least with current technology, but since the big N interferes in my case (and maybe yours) I’ll show you some things that’ll make ereading a better experience:

Essentials for a starved E-reader (Checklist)

1. A good monitor
2. Microsoft Word
3. Microsoft Reader
4. Read in Microsoft Reader Add-in for Microsoft Word
5. Adobe Acrobat Reader
6. A good P2P

Interested users will figure out what’s common between the list.

I want to beat 20Q.