Documents to Go and VersaMail Woes

Documents to Go and VersaMail Woes (Jerz’s Literacy Weblog) I love my Tungsten T3 handheld computer. I also love Documents to Go, which is bundled software that lets me edit files (mostly word processor, but also spreadsheet and slide show) on my handheld, and then synch my changes with the version of the file on my…

The Laundromat

I watched a group of people popularly assumed to be rude, brash, loud and forward carefully negotiate the lack of washing machines, driers and laundry baskets, politely assisting when the time-lags were evident, ignoring the intrusions on personal space with almost Scandinavian stoicism, and happily folding their clothes side by side; Spanish, Irani and Irish.…

Pope's focus: Reason — Its relationship to the divine was the subject of a recent speech that upset some Muslims.

The quotation that caused all the furor involves a 14th-century dialogue between a Byzantine emperor and an educated Persian on the subject of Christianity and Islam. The pope quotes the emperor, who says: “Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his…

Way Wrong — Time to Go to Bed

Way Wrong — Time to Go to Bed (Jerz’s Literacy Weblog) A new media researcher asked me to provide him with a few paragraphs on a subject I know well, for a proposal he’s planning to submit soon. I was going to dig out a couple of canned paragraphs this weekend, but one thing led to…