Posted: May 17, 2013, 5:51 pm PDT - Last updated: May 17, 2013, 5:51 pm PDT View 774 Friday, May 17, 2013
E-book sales are up 43%, but that’s still a ‘slowdown’
After three years of triple-digit increases, the number of e-books sold last year grew by only 43%.
And that’s enough of a difference in the annual growth rate to have publishers talking about an [...]
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Posted: May 16, 2013, 12:50 pm PDT - Last updated: May 16, 2013, 5:47 pm PDT View 774 Thursday, May 16, 2013
Interesting. President Obama today told the press that he had never heard of the Treasury Inspector General report on IRS involvement in selective examinations of tax exempt status applications, given green light treatment to those professing “progressive” or “Social responsibility” goals, but putting primary [...]
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Posted: May 15, 2013, 2:50 pm PDT - Last updated: May 16, 2013, 12:24 am PDT View 774 Wednesday, May 15, 2013
This is Wednesday, and all the Windows computers here need updating. For reasons I do not understand, the Windows 8 machine wants to be told to do the updates including the resetting although it says that it does it automatically. That is, there is [...]
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Posted: May 13, 2013, 11:52 pm PDT - Last updated: May 14, 2013, 12:55 am PDT View 775 Monday, Thursday, May 09, 2013
Today’s LA Times has two education essays. One is “Closing the Education Gap” by Michele Siqeiros. It’s on the editorial page, and it’s a pretty standard exhortation . “The state must develop a comprehensive strategy for public K-12 education, adult education and higher [...]
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Posted: May 10, 2013, 2:13 pm PDT - Last updated: May 10, 2013, 2:16 pm PDT View 773 Friday, May 10, 2013
The pledge drive continues, and thanks to all those who have opened new subscriptions or renewed their old ones. This site operates on the Public Radio plan, meaning that it is free to all, but it remains open only as long as it gets [...]
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Posted: May 9, 2013, 12:38 pm PDT - Last updated: May 10, 2013, 12:46 am PDT View 773 Thursday, May 09, 2013
Pledge week continues. This journal operates on the Public Radio model – it is free to all, but it will continue only so long as enough people subscribe. If you have not subscribed, this would be a great time to do it. We encourage [...]
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Posted: May 9, 2013, 12:05 am PDT - Last updated: May 9, 2013, 11:38 am PDT View 773 Wednesday, May 08, 2013
I posted a mixed bag mailbag earlier today. It has some interesting items and comments.
I’m trying to catch up. In theory this ought to be pledge week – KUSC is having their Spring Pledge Drive, which means that I sort of do the [...]
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Posted: May 7, 2013, 11:51 pm PDT - Last updated: May 8, 2013, 12:17 am PDT View 773 Tuesday, May 07, 2013
I’m slowly recovering from whatever it was that bit me.
I am still reading The Static Universe. It states that there are QUASARS with measurable proper motion, but whose red shift distance places them so far away that the motion we see and measure [...]
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Posted: May 7, 2013, 12:09 am PDT - Last updated: May 7, 2013, 12:09 am PDT View 773 Monday, May 06, 2013
I woke up, had breakfast, and essentially spent the day in bed accomplishing nothing today. I am not sure what has got me, but I think the day’s rest has got me past it. More tomorrow. Apologies for the weekend funk.
The world continues, [...]
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Posted: May 3, 2013, 2:20 pm PDT - Last updated: May 3, 2013, 10:31 pm PDT View 772 Friday, May 03, 2013
A long time ago when computers were not very reliable, and networking them was tricky at best, I developed a principle of troubleshooting: ninety percent of the time it’s a cable. This morning Roberta’s computer told her she wasn’t connected to a network. It [...]
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