"Windows: My eXPerience" now available in spanish
I implemented story translation today, and why not start with this one.
Here it is Windows: mi eXPeriencia
I implemented story translation today, and why not start with this one.
Here it is Windows: mi eXPeriencia
You start a blog, you like something another guy wrote, what do you do?
Link and write a nice comment
Add it to del.icio.us, have feedburner show it in your "Links of the day" feature?
Copy the whole thing, including the name of the author, not following his very liberal license, ignore his request to fix it, and piss him off?
If you chose option 3, then you will get along just fine with this guy!
I have decided to make this blog available also in Spanish starting yesterday.
Since it's generated by my own software called BartleBlog, that meant I had to implement everything so each post can have multiple translations.
And it's starting to work. You may notice several things:
Below the banner there is an "Available in English - Español" thing.
Each Post has links to the different translations for which it's available.
The location and styling of these elements will change, and they may be broken in different ways for a few days. Sorry about that.
There will also be a "Lateral Opinion en Español" RSS feed soon.
Update: here it is
And that's sad, because I don't ask for much!
I have read everything for the last three years in some sort of Sony Clie. First a SJ30, and after its sad demise in a coke accident, a SJ20 and am very very happy with them.
Now, as usual I may be a bit eccentric in that my favourite format for ebooks is TXT files. They are easy to manage, you can read them on anything, and they are gorgeous to look at if you use Palm Fiction, the best etext reader by far for any platform I've seen.
Now, what do I want?
e-ink display
A display that doesn't take a second to refresh
One week of battery life
A way to put a bazillion texts in it using some sort of card (I have about 3500 books in zTXT format in a memory stick right now)
Light (below 300 grams)
That's all. OK, I also want it to be cheap and at least open-ish, since I would prefer to be able to write apps for it, but that's secondary (I never wrote a Palm app anyway).
And sadly, the Kindle fails in:
Not cheap enough ($400????) Plus a subscription for most useful stuff??
Not fast enough refreshing the screen, according to the demo video. And even if you can live with the slowness (I probably could) it flashes in an incredibly annoying way.
Not open enough (they charge you to upload files to it by email?)
It's incredibly ugly. It looks like a gadget from Star Trek: TOS. That's seriously not good. I know that was not a requirement, but baby jebus cried a little when he saw it.
Of course the e-Ink display looks great as usual, and the battery life is excelent, and we are getting closer to a decent product, but not there yet :-(
Today I found Paleo Future via reddit.
Something like Wernher von Braun's Shuttle images look a ton better than the CG used today
The future is, of course, always going to be different from what we think now
I still really want a flying car
The nice things we have, noone guessed (like cellphones which work as phones always did instead of as radios)
This blog is very readable! Welcome to my RSS feed collection :-)