Comcast is currently offering a reduced rate/sale on internet service ($9.95/month) if your child receives free school lunches! They are also offering a low-cost computer at $149.99 (plus tax) and free internet training.
As some of you know, I am currently in South America learning Spanish and helping at an orphanage. I will be back in a couple of months and be back to updating the blog regularly. In the meantime, expect infrequent updates when I come across something really interesting. Thanks for understanding!
Anyone who knows me, knows that I LOVE my Kindle (the e-reader from Amazon). At first I was a little worried because I really enjoy physical books, I can't give up my subscription to the newspaper etc. but the Kindle is so light and small, the font so easy to read, it automatically bookmarks your spot, and whenever I get stuck on a metro delay I always have a few books to read.
So I was really excited to see this announcement from Amazon:
"We are excited to announce that a new feature, Kindle Library Lending, will be coming later this year. Kindle customers will be able to borrow Kindle books from over 11,000 public libraries in the United States.
Kindle Library Lending will provide the same unique features customers love about Kindle and Kindle books, including the ability to read on any Kindle or free Kindle app, Whispersync technology that synchronizes your notes, highlights and last page read, real page numbers, and more. After a library book expires, if you ever decide to check it out again or purchase it from Amazon, all of your annotations and bookmarks will be preserved.
We are partnering with OverDrive, the leading provider of digital solutions to libraries, to bring a seamless library borrowing experience to Kindle. We will announce more information on Kindle Library Lending later this year."
Hopefully, this will give libraries enough time to prepare themselves for the onslaught of e-book readers who will want to virtually borrow books!
And Amazon is offering a special deal on the Kindle 3G - if you purchase it between now and May 8th, you will receive a "free" $25 Amazon gift card! Just check the box that says "add a $25 Amazon.com gift card at no extra cost" before adding the Kindle to your cart.
After browsing digital cameras for a while, yesterday I finally gave in and bought the Canon PowerShot SD1300IS 12.1 MP Digital Camera with 4x Wide Angle Optical Image Stabilized Zoom and 2.7-Inch LCD (Blue). This is a massive improvement from my Olympus camera that has served me quite well for probably ten years but is almost twice the size of my new camera. Embarrassingly, I noticed that my old Olympus is 3MP and has a memory card of 128MB (and probably cost a lot more than my new camera).
So if you thought the pictures on my blog were kind of fuzzy my picture taking skills were only partly to blame! Hopefully I can add a real review once I have had a chance to play with my new toy some more, and you will get to see some better quality pictures very soon!
. This is a massive improvement from my Olympus camera that has served me quite well for probably ten years but is almost twice the size of my new camera. Embarrassingly, I noticed that my old Olympus is 3MP and has a memory card of 128MB (and probably cost a lot more than my new camera).