(b)logophile

Apparently it’s read-an-ebook week, and has been since… nearly a week ago. Some publishers are offering extra freebies in honour of the occasion, although I must say many of the offerings look pretty hopeless to me. I’m going to let the occasion provoke me into posting, since otherwise I’ll never get those half-baked thoughts out [...]

I wanted to write a post explaining why I consistently confuse Spain with Israel and Japan in Greek, but for some reason Firefox won’t let me enter lowercase Greek letters. Anywhere. (No more searching youtube for rebetiko songs either, until I figure out what’s going on. Anyone got a clue? Weird thing is, uppercase works [...]

In a rare example of plain-speaking in business, Apple uses the term “customer abuse” for the process whereby I pay €95 for a replacement power adapter.

Probably the last LT post for a while, but the recommendations feature just got augmented with a “Why?” link showing which books you own prompted the suggestion. It’s pretty neat. I seem to have hit basically two clusters: “Assigned for an English Lit. course” (The Great Gatsby, Dubliners, On the Road, Steppenwolf, Labyrinths, The Baron [...]

Is anyone using Upcoming.org? I just signed up (as user tikitu, naturally), prompted by the awesome potential of Peter Oliver’s Upcomingscrobbler. As you probably won’t have guessed from the name, this site takes the top artists from your last.fm profile (driven by the Audioscrobbler engine — the light begins to dawn!) and cross-indexes them with [...]