I’ve been thinking about the iPad lot lately. I’m not the on verge of buying one – I’m doing my best to wait for other tablets that are more like the iPad should be (less lock-in, innate OCR in the OS, etc.), but watching the system has made me consider an idea I’d like to tentatively call Distributed Device Interface (DDI for you acronym types).
The thing about the iPad, as it stands, is that it’s a media consumption device, not an input device. However, with a Bluetooth keyboard, it can …

Venn Diagram is now available on feedbooks, my site, and scribd.
Venn Diagram is a short story about a guy named Stan who can’t choose between the two most important parts of his life.

Lately I’ve been reading stuff from Feedbooks – “After the Software Wars” by Keith Curtis and “Making Dylan Maxwell” by Moxie Mezcal. The more I use Feedbooks the more I’m impressed by the content available there. Some of it is plotless nonsense – “The Singularity” or “His robot Girlfriend” are interesting as random fantasies, but have no real conflict, and therefore no plot.
But “After the Software Wars” was awesome. I couldn’t stop reading it. I read it over three sittings – Curtis taught me more about open source software …