I (HEART) my Kindle and Want IDG & Ziff Davis to push all my billion magazines to my kindle.

I just need to say:  I am a voracious reader of all things.  Books, ads, newspapers....etc anything.  I devour anything and anything.  One of my very dear friends gave me a Kindle for the December holiday's this year.  What an amazing transformation.

I transfer documents to it for meetings, make notes and highlights during the meeting.  I have reference material annotated for quick fact checking.

I read the following newspapers:  New York Times, China News Daily, Hindustan Times, Le Monde, The Financial Times, UK Guardian, Der Spiegel, etc.  Can you imagine if I had to carry just those newspapers in my bag when traveling?  


I made a promise to myself (since I spend so much time on a plane) that I would "REALLY"     read all of the classics that I was supposed to digest in HS and College. Ehhm....

I carried around  around the entire works of Charlotte Bronte for months, it went to 5 continents and took up half the weight in my carry on.

Half my suitcase weight for the allotted 75kgs was paperwork, documents, magazines (oh note to self I need to lobby that all my publications' (I receive for free in my mailbox, that sometimes I am not able to pick up from my Post Office Box (the post master hates me because I fill my box and then he has to dig it all out and put it in a bucket) for months at a time. I read in print from IDG, Computer World, CDG,  CIO mag etc,  need to be published and pushed digitally into kindle, e-book format.

Save a ton of trees, not pollute the tributaries and streams from bleached paper and printing, save transportation costs etc.  It's a win/win for everyone (including my postmaster) except the printers and transporters.  Less Carbon, less toxins, more trees!  YEA!

I have tweeted the chairman of IDG asking him to please consider e-book, kindle publishing. I wouldn't have said that prior to getting my kindle.  It was painful for me to read most documents on line 16hours a day.   I would find myself towards the end of the day, printing HUGE documents, research, financials, future projects etc.

Once, I actually tracked it.  In a two week period of time, I used an ENTIRE box of printing paper....Yikes!  I would have stacks of highlighted, scribbled on paper everywhere!  Magazine piles a foot high on my desk.  Torn out articles.  All because my eyes couldn't stand the glare off my laptop.

*** THANK YOU who ever invented the screen and the background***

If you want to join in and try to change the way we publish if you are a geek like me  IDG's Chairman's twitter is :  @pathere

So Ziff Davis is a little harder as his twitter account hasn't been easy for me to find.  The funny thing is you can get all the consumer magazines delivered to your kindle but not the CIO insight.

So I couldn't find  the email for Jason Young the Chief Executive Officer of Ziff Davis so I am going for the editor in chief for now Brian Carlson bcarlson@cio.com .

I travel to a lot of funky, third world places that don't a stable source of high speed internet connectivity.  IF (yes that is IF) I am able to send off a few mission critical emails, it costs me LOTS of $$$$ money and time (slow bandwidth, censorship) so it would be awesome if I could download it prior to going off the grid and take my kindle with me.

A word about the other readers on the market:

While I like the openness (i.e. I can download e-books from my library or Google etc) of the Sony it's design is not optimal.  It is clunky and the screen has glare.  If I wanted that I would just use my net book (which is what I am currently using for all of my adobe e-books from my local library)  I looked at the Barnes and Noble reader and it is the same thing....you can only put the proprietary books from Barnes and Noble on it not Library books.


I will preface this by saying:  I LOVE the ingenuity, fabulous design and concept of ANYTHING APPLE.  I heart Steve Jobs for bucking the system and blazing trails.  I was an early adopter of the "newton" (haha) the world just wasn't ready for that yet...OCR wasnt ready for that level yet.  Processing speed etc.  I can name a  dozen reasons why it failed.  But the fact of the matter is:  He did it.  He has helped change the way we think about computing.

I used the Next system on the trading floor of UBS.  It was clean fast and fabulous.  Not exactly pretty but it did the job AND I could look at what was going on in the back end in unix.  Once again I digress...oh well it's my blog LOL.

That said:  I 'like' the IPad, I LOVE the idea of it.  I think round two will be better and I can hold out for awhile.  I really would like to see it with a integrated phone.  You could have a blue tooth connection.....and a camera so you could video conference.  I don't care that it is bigger than an I phone.  I actually can't type on the Iphone efficiently....I just don't get it. I can type one handed on my Blackberry without even looking at it because I can feel the keys and know where they are.  So I am not an I phone fan specifically because I am obviously not coordinated enough to email quickly enough.  However, the Ipad and I get along really well for typing.  Maybe it is because of the bigger buttons.  I played with the Ipad for a few hours at my local Apple store.  http://www.apple.com/retail/greenwichavenue/ 

The business team there rocks!  Especially Ryan Baum!  We sat for hours one day designing an IT infrastructure from the ground up for a project I have.  We finally came up with my usual Good, Better, Best scenarios to present to the client.  I don't understand why more businesses don't back end with Apple servers?  I have found some really cool features (that I don't have time to go into right now but perhaps in a later post) that I have to go for a deeper dive into in the near future.

I love Sun machines, they just put out a crap load of heat.  But they are stable, clean and fast as hell if you are doing complex algorithmic trading or any kind of financial calculations....AND you are in the drivers seat.  If it fails you can easily know why (not some dumb blue screen of death to decode) and fix it.  Low level memory management, sector processing,  are a breeze.

What happened to Sun anyway? I think their Data Center in a Box Idea was amazing!  Scalable and Brilliant.  If the UN needed to set up a DR site somewhere really quickly you could bring in a "jolly green giant" drop it in the middle of nowhere (need some solar panels, an alternate source of energy, hopefully NOT big monster UPS's and put a Mobile Sat System up and be able to run a total command and control center anywhere in the world....Now that is cool.  Efficiency, Just in Time usage or even long term usage.  You could efficiently run a UNHCR camp with full logistical support.

Ok back to the real stuff!  I'm done for the moment.  I wish the world a peaceful day!  Oh and  don't forget today is:  #boobquake  let's rock the Casbah!

My Rather Delayed Thoughts...Been too busy on the road!

Congratulations to my amazing friend, mentor & surrogate Mom Natalie ! Huge hugs and love 2 her for her most recent honor: Natalie Fitz-Gerald, it has been promoting the work of women living in theSouth African bush, a place where AIDS continues to plague orphan children and rob women oftheir lives.As a tribute for her ...

» New Mexico Women’s Foundation » Press Release: Natalie Fitz-Gerald Alice Paul Award Honoree

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The New Mexico Women's Foundation was established in 1988 to maintain and administer a fund for the benefit of women and girls in New Mexico. It is a

 My new favorite brunch place...I laughed so hard this morning my cheeks hurt! Lily Mazahery David Starr George Chromy and the fabulous wait staff will never be the same!

Kramerbooks & Afterwords Cafe - Home

www.kramers.com

The official website for Kramerbooks & Afterwords Cafe

The geek recommends the outside terrace at Circa on Dupoint Circle!

www.circacafes.com

www.circacafes.com

Nothing is coincidence...

Call it crazy...Or just label what you like.  I have had the most amazing Maktub  moments (not one but bucket loads) of my life this week.  If I tried to explain the amazing decision tree and all its intricacies you (my dear reader) would most certainly put me in the funny farm.  

I've notice in my relatively short period of time on this planet:  most people notice "stuff" (I can't think of a better word for it other than "just stuff") when their senses are set on fire....I also notice "stuff" but in addition to "stuff" I see, hear, smell, touch and feel "patterns" patterns of behavior if you will.  

It can be the pattern of the chirp of a bird.  The movement of trees together....or a series of words spoken or events happening that make me go Hmmmmm....Not that it is unique in anyway, I just find myself thinking about it more than the average blonde geek girl I suppose. 

DISCLAIMER:

(Not that I have recently polled any average blonde geek girls or have any access to statistics about blonde geek girls....It's just a feeling...I could drone on about the logical sets involved in this classification...However, I don't want to waste the white space (and now a word from our sponsor Amazon) on the page.)

So I think every Friday, from now on I will place the words (not in any particular order) on the page of the words, things, stuff that made me go hmmmm this week: 

Four Seasons Georgetown, Geothermal Energy, Lily, SHINY Things, Cats, Todd, Dave, Mark, Becky, Twitter, Library of Congress, SCSC, Lyle, Vegas, Child Trafficking, Satellite Imagery, Sensing Technology, Cell Phones, Google, Privacy, Eyes, Iceland,

http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/04/crowdsourcing-the-dpw.html  


Software Keys, Radar Arrays, Algorithmic Programming, Charity, Social Change, Behavior, Skydiving Mt. Everest, Airplanes, Travel, DC, Luiggi Bene, 

http://www.explorersweb.com/everest_k2/news.php?id=19069

Melissa, Big Sur Marathon,  Global Angels (I want to be a Global Angel),

http://www.globalangels.org/pages/6104/Join_us.htm

 Very Cool Sunspot Photo Zeus's Horse

 http://www.boingboing.net/2010/04/14/space-weather-big-so.html 

Roemer, Airplanes, Travel, EMR, EMP, GPS,  Guitar Hero II (I've never played any of them) Data, BI, and last but not least:  

Democracy (ha even that was funny, I actually typed DemoCRAZY)

I have to laugh once again at STILL being alive!  The amazing people in my life and all the wonderful thoughts and color they bring to my world.

Happy Friday World!

Human Trafficking...I am so glad I am an educated American!

http://www.fbi.gov/page2/april10/trafficking_041610.html

Just because you don't see it, doesn't mean that it doesn't exist.  I am thrilled to be an educated American.  I am fortunate that I am not living in a shack unable to read and I don't need to sell or send my daughter to a foreign country so she has a promise of a better life..... the hope of a new exciting American life squashed as she is turned into a modern day slave.  Don't turn your back.  If you see it, report it.... Love you SH

7 Disruptive Foods Changing the Way We Eat

7 Disruptive Foods Changing the Way We Eat

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A sick side note:  Do you think they have done the actuarial work on if this was successful, what it would do to the global population?  It's effect on the environment.  I guess you wouldn't have to recycle packaging, reduce waste etc....less H20 consumption....Hmmm?  Do you still use the bathroom?  What happens to your teeth long term?  Do you have to use a mouth excerciser?  Random musings....On a nicer note:  At least people would't go hungry.  Hungry is not a nice feeling....

The 50 Most Stressful Colleges in the US.

http://http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-04-04/the-50-most-stressful-colleges/#gallery=1470;page=51

Carefully consider you child's choice for college. What type of child is she/he? Can they withstand intense competitiveness and all of the intense pressures when leaving home or will they end up homeless pushing shopping carts because they "lost it" either from drugs (trying to cope) or underlying mental illness like... many of the math/engineering/physics majors at UC Berkeley (where I went to school) or even worse committing suicide from the 3rd floor rotunda at MIT (which has an incredibly high suicide rate).  You may think you have prepared your child for the best of the best, however, I urge you to think again based on your child not on the ranking of the school academically, or because it is your alma mater, you want to brag to people at the country club that your kid goes to an IVY or Top 10 in world report....They can do that for Grad School where they will be most likely better adapted to handle the intense pressure after 4 years. 

 I have known so many students that have gone from a 4.0+/g.p.a. AP student in high school to getting there first A- or lower (if graded on the curve and you have two future nobel laureates in your class that are killing the curve) and it is absolutely devistating to them.  For so many different reasons (I won't go into, I do have to work LOL) but psycologically it can blow them so hard it ruins them.  There self esteem which was once high is now shattered and they begin the spiral of self doubt....  

Instead of seeking professional help (although available at some schools, Im not talking academic counselors, I'm talking Psychiatrists or Mental Health Counselors, would be considered weak) or talking to their parents which they now think they are most certainly going to disappoint because they received a lower grade they either, keep trying, give up, drink or do drugs trying to self medicate, or have some underlying mental issue that makes them completely snap (which is why I am writing this)  I saw too many students at UC Berkeley, push shopping carts, live on the street because they just couldnt handle the stress.  

One in particular Rawr Man could tell you any baseball statistic in the time since base ball has been played.  Another was a brilliant physics doctorate student when I got there he was 50ish wearing a dress, sleeping in the bushes and if you sat near enough (if you could stand the smell) you would hear the most fascinating discussions occuring between a group of homeless men that you never thought you would hear.  Particle physics, Newton, all with huge gesticulations.  They would get drunk when they could go on for hours, sometimes incoherent, then maybe fight.   It wasn't over a girl or something dumb...it was over a difference in an equation or theory.

Can you imagine if we had a place that made them feel safe enough to discuss what they were discussing in the streets, dirty with dresses and smelly but in an environment that was OK with their mental illness what we could actually study and listen too?  I am sure that with all their craziness there is still much underlying brilliance to be had, it just needs a conduit so that it can get out and be noticed....

I sure hope that your children are in the proper environment to learn without that much stress.  I hope that I can help my kids choose wisely.  I'm not sure that is possible, one already wants to go  to summer camp at MIT for robotics.....at 9.  

Ok I am done with my rant at the moment.....

The Hazards Lurking at Home

The Hazards Lurking at Home

We are now finding that "Better Living through Chemistry (an old tag line from a Dow commercial) is not in fact the best for the rather sensitive human body. The huge leaps that we have made in science in the last 100 or so years obviously hasn't been studied thoroughly enough. Have we looked at all outcomes studied of those technologies, chemicals, etc in regards to earth and the humans and the ecosystems that dwell on it. I think not. Whether you choose to err on the safe side (I try my best) or completely ignore it as hog wash is your choice. However, I really hope that since I have done the best that I could with my kids that they will grow up with less incidences of the after affects of exposure....Ramble for the day.

World’s Most Stunning Data Centers - Geek Pron or Eye Candy

http://ow.ly/1sAcB

Random thoughts:

So nice so clean....I wonder what kind of alternative energy if any they are using:-)  At least the one's with LED lighting are reducing heat (thus reducing the cooling needs)  I'm also a big believer in Fiber running through trays....1. Reduces the amount of heat that is produced by copper 2. Copper is at an all time high, We have lots of sand on this earth...reduce costs 3. Reduce the footprint needed, a tiny pipe can carry enough fiber to rid you of 3ft deep of copper.  4.  Are they efficiently using the aisles.   I really like the Group: The Green Data Center Alliance  I particularly like Eaton and a few other manufacturers they seem to really get it....Ah random musings...

I'm going outside!

Finally sitting down long enough to breathe

I've finally stopped traveling for the moment....allowing my brain to settle down a bit.  Now I can reflect on the time since my last post and hopefully provide some good cannon fodder for my friends to comment about :-)

Time to write...before the next leap off the edge into the abyss we call life....suck it up for all its worth cause you only have ONE!   

The Energizer Bunny just discovered a new alternative for producing mass quantities of energy with no carbon footprint or toxic by product from manufacturing! YEA! Now if I can get this guys business plan into shape and find him the first 10mm we can start a true GREEN ENERGY REVOLUTION!!!!! I got my excel spreadsheets fired up and am ready to ROLL! Take no prisoners!