So, why don’t you play ogg files?

Need I say more!?

Your thought please?

Just a quicky today:

From EFFector 22.16: EFF Launches “Teaching Copyright” Curriculum

* EFF LAUNCHED THE "TEACHING COPYRIGHT" CURRICULUM THIS
WEEK to counter misleading educational materials produced
by the entertainment industry -- materials that typically
try to scare students into believing that making copies
is wrong. In contrast, Teaching Copyright is designed to
encourage students to make full and fair use of new
technology while recognizing their rights and
responsibilities. In addition, Teaching Copyright
spotlights various stakeholders in the copyright debate,
allowing students to better understand the controversies
and make informed choices about where they stand.

Sightseeing!?

The Arbat

When I think about where I want to go this year, I actually have multiple choices!  The described place down below would seem like a good place to start!  What do you think?

The Arbat is Moscow’s most charming and lively pedestrian street. Once a bohemian quarter of the city, littered with cafes crammed full of the capital’s intellectual elite, the Arbat still retains a vibrant and artistic air today, with souvenir stalls selling traditional Russian gifts, artists offering original canvases and street performers entertaining the shoppers.

The street boasts an impressive selection of cafes, restaurants and bars, where you can sample everything from a decent cup of coffee and a French pastry, to a genuine Lebanese shawerma (kebab) or a tasty thick milkshake in a genuine 1950s American Diner. The Arbat is a symbol of old Moscow and its name is mentioned in the city chronicles as far back as 1493. In that year the whole city was engulfed in a terrible fire, thought to have been sparked by a candle in the Church of St. Nicholas in Peski, which is situated on the Arbat.

The root of the name “Arbat” probably comes from the Salvonic word gorbat, meaning “hilly ground”, although it is equally as possible that the word stems from the Arabic word arbad, meaning “suburb”. The latter word may well have been used to describe the Arbat area, as in the 15th century only the Kremlin itself was regarded as the city proper, and the area was used to great caravans of goods arriving from the East, so an Arabic word could well have been assimilated into the local dialect.

From the second half of the 18th century onwards, the Arbat and the maze of back streets that surround it became Moscow’s most aristocratic and literary neighborhood and home to the city’s intelligentsia. House number 2 features the famous Prague Restaurant, opened in the 1870s by the merchant Tararykin and famed as one of the best dining establishments in Moscow until well after the turn of the century.

The restaurant was built and decorated in sumptuous Art Nouveau style by the architects Kekushev and Ericson, and adorned with mirrors, glittering bronze figures and gilt stucco moldings. It was here in 1901 that Chekhov toasted the first performance of his play The Three Sisters, and here in 1913 that the famous Russian painter Ilya Repin celebrated the restoration of his painting Ivan the Terrible and his Son Ivan, which had been slashed by an icon painter of the Old Believer sect whilst hanging in the Tretyakov Gallery. The Prague is also host to the annual Rubinshtein lunch, held in honor of the musician and founder of the Moscow Conservatoire.

Just off the Arbat along Serebriany (Silver) Lane, whose name derives from the silver coin mint whose craftsmen used to live here, there used to exist the estate of the newly married Suvurov couple, whose son became the mighty Alexander Suvorov, the great 18th century Russian military commander who fought victoriously in the Russo-Turkish war of 1787-1791 and the Napoleonic wars of 1812. Opposite Serebriany Lane stands Starokonushenny Lane, once home to the philosopher and Moscow University professor, Sergei Trubetskoi, in whose musical soirees the young composer Alexander Scriabin used to play his new compositions.

On the other side of the Arbat stands Kaloshin Lane, where the residence of a Madame Malinovskaya used to stand, the aristocratic lady who stood in as the mother of the bride in the poet Alexander Pushkin’s marriage. The same house was later owned by the geologist, geographer and member of the Academy of Sciences, Obruchev, the principal designer of the Trans-Siberian Railway. The lane was also the site of a small 19th century house in which the great writer Count Fyodor Tolstoy once lived. Just around the corner stands the Wall of Viktor Tsoy, built and adorned with messages to honor the famous Russian rock legend who died tragically in a car accident in 1990.

At the junction of Krivoarbatsky Lane and the Arbat stands the oldest building in the area, a mansion dating form the 18th century. In the 1820s it came under the ownership of Count Bobrinsky, the grandson of Empress Catherine the Great and her lover Count Grigory Orlov, and who came under secret police scrutiny for failing to disclose information about the early 19th century Decembrist Secret Society.

Further along the Arbat, Nikolopeskovsky Lane was home to the composer Alexander Scriabin between 1912 and 1915. It was here that he composed his famous Divine Poem and Prometheus and died at the tragic age of only 43. He was buried in the neighboring Church of St. Nicholas in Pesky. At number 5 along the same street lived Pavel Noshchokin, one of Pushkin’s closest friends and the man who lent the poet the dress coat in which he was married and later buried. At the end of the lane used to stand a small square, where in the 16th and 17th centuries the Tsar’s hunting hounds were kept.

House number 53 on the Arbat was built in the mid-18th century and was home to the newly married Pushkin and his young wife. It was here that the poet held his stag night, to which he invited his friends Denis Davydov and Pavel Nashchokin. The flat was later home to the cousin of the great composer Tchaikovsky, and was where he welcomed in the New Year at the end of 1884. Between 1920 and 1921 the building housed the avant-garde Red Army dramatic theater, to which the futurist writer Vladimir Mayakovsky and the pioneering theatrical director Vsevolod Meyerhold contributed ideas. The building was later turned into communal flats and it was only in February 1986 after considerable reconstruction, that a museum was opened in the apartment to celebrate the life and works of Pushkin.

Sivtsev-Vrazhek Lane used to be the residence of Pushkin’s eldest daughter, Maria Gartung, on whom Tolstoy modeled his famous character Anna Karenina. The house just around the corner, at the junction of Plotnikov and Bolshoi Mogiltsevsky Lanes, is adorned with a marble sculptured frieze depicting the writers Pushkin, Gogol and Tolstoy surrounded by mythological characters, that was originally intended to decorate the portico of the future Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts on Volkhonka Street.

Nearby Denezhny (Money) Lane was the 17th century residential area of the coiners who worked in the Imperial mint. During the late 19th century it was home to the writer and director Zagoskin, whose extensive library drew acclaim from the writer Gogol and who the malicious novelist portrayed unkindly in his novel The Government Inspector. After the revolution the house became the German Embassy and it was here on July 6th 1918 that a member of the Socialist Revolutionary Party shot the German Ambassador, marking the beginning of the political uprising that would see Lenin and the Bolsheviks into power.

Along nearby Spasopeskovsky Lane, named after the 17th century church that stands there, is the former residence of the millionaire financier Vtorov, in which Bulgakov chose to host Satan’s Ball in his fantastical novel The Master and Margarita. Today the mansion serves as the American Ambassador’s official residence.

Not far from the Arbat at No. 32 Glazovsky Lane stands the magnificent late 18th century mansion of General Glazov. Its ownership was later transferred to the renowned patron of the arts Mikhail Morozov, who helped to finance the Moscow Conservatoire, the Stroganov Art School and whose extensive collection of paintings by the famous European and Russian painters Gauguin, Surikov, Levitan and Serov he donated to the Tretyakov Gallery. Morozov’s wife, Margarita Kirillovna, was as highly cultured as her husband and is depicted in two of the artist Mikhail Vrubel’s most famous works, Venice and The Swan Princess. After the death of her husband in 1903, Margarita hosted regular literary salons in the mansion, where the city’s leading intellectuals discussed politics and literature, and later set up the publishing house Put’ or The Way.

At the western end of the Arbat visitors cannot fail to notice the imposing Gothic facade of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs building. Built according to Stalin’s specific instructions, the Ministry is one of 7 high-rise buildings constructed in monumental Gothic style to celebrate the economic and engineering prowess and achievements of the Soviet regime. Known as Stalin’s “7 Sisters”, the buildings include the Ministry, the Ukraine Hotel and Moscow State University.

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What’s in a name anyway?

Your result for The Name Game Test …

87% Correct!

Congratulations!  You scored 87% Correct on the Name Game Test!

“I want to feel passion,

I want to feel pain.

I want to weep at the sound of your name.

Come make me laugh,

come make me cry…

just make me feel alive.”

~ Joey Lauren Adams~

(American actress)

Each of us are identified by our name.   In the past a man’s name was said to be his bond, which means that a good name was one where the person that had the name could be trusted.  Each name has an origin and a meaning behind it.  The name we are given at birth has been shown to have a direct influence on our behaviors and attitudes.  For this reason many new parents try to find a name that will give the baby a good start in life and not presnt him/her with problems in school or with others.  A good website to find information on your name and it’s meaning is: http://www.behindthename.com

Rate my test!

• Currently quiz/5 Stars.
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• Can’t tell
• click away

Compared to other takers

• 74/100 You scored 87% on Correct, higher than 74% of your peers.

Basically this was just a test to see if posting by e-mail works?

• http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/05/12/post-by-email/

• http://support.wordpress.com/post-by-email/




Thank you wordpress.com

For giving me a videopress subscription for free (well at least for a year).

http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/05/11/videopress/

done

http://support.wordpress.com/videos/

Now to get me a decent camera and start shooting!

Disturbing!

Since the reproduction of this publication in electronic media is encouraged. This newsletter is printed on 100% recycled electrons.

Here goes and see and read for yourself why I think most of the articles mentioned below are pretty disturbing to me!  Last week I got an April fools day message.    The following however isn’t.

for EFFector Vol. 22, No. 10 April 10, 2009 editor@eff.org

A Publication of the Electronic Frontier Foundation
ISSN 1062-9424

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In our 505th issue:

* THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION HAS EMBRACED BUSH’S POSITION ON
WARANTLESS WIRETAPPING, and goes one step further than the
previous administration. In a motion to dismiss Jewel v.
NSA, the Obama Administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ)
made two deeply troubling arguments.

First, they argued, exactly as the Bush Administration did
on countless occasions, that the state secrets privilege
requires the court to dismiss the issue out of hand. They
asserted that simply allowing the case to continue “would
cause exceptionally grave harm to national security.” As in
the past, this is a blatant ploy to dismiss the litigation
without allowing the courts to consider the evidence.

Second, the DOJ claimed that the U.S. Government is
completely immune from litigation for illegal spying
because the USA PATRIOT Act renders the U.S. immune from
suit under the two remaining key federal surveillance laws:
the Wiretap Act and the Stored Communications Act. This is
a radical assertion that is utterly unprecedented. No one
– not the White House, not the Justice Department, not any
member of Congress, and not the Bush Administration — has
ever interpreted the law this way.

This isn’t change we can believe in. This is change for the
worse.

For the full blog post:
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/04/obama-doj-worse-than-bush

For the press release:
http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2009/04/05

For Kevin Bankston on “Countdown With Keith Olbermann”:
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/04/bankston-on-olbermann

For Keith Olbermann on Obama and Wiretapping:
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/04/keith-olbermann-obama-and-wiretapping

* EFF AND OTHERS HAVE CALLED FOR OBAMA TO DIVERSIFY IP
APPOINTMENTS. Several of the president’s recent appointees
to positions that oversee intellectual property policy have
represented the recording industry or other industries that
support overly broad IP protection. But many positions with
IP policy responsibilities have not yet been filled.

The coalition urged the administration to appoint
individuals representing the diversity of stakeholders
involved in IP issues, and also called on the president to
create new positions dedicated to promoting innovation and
advancing the cause of progress in sciences and the useful
arts.

For the full press release:
http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2009/04/02

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EFF Updates

* Disability Access Activists Gather to Protest Kindle DRM
Hundreds of people gathered in front of the headquarters of
The Authors Guild in New York City to protest the removal
of text-to-speech capabilities in Amazon’s new Kindle 2.
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/04/protest-kindle-drm

* Michigan Rep. Calls for RFID Review
Michigan Rep. Paul Opsommer wants to know why Michigan is
set to issue new Enhanced Drivers’ Licenses that include
long-range RFID technology.
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/04/michigan-rep-calls-rfid-review

* Stating the Case Against DRM to the FTC
EFF Staff Attorney Corynne McSherry testified at the FTC’s
town hall meeting on DRM, recommending that the FTC study
DRM’s effect on competition.
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/03/stating-case-against-drm-ftc

* AP Invokes DMCA Against Obama “Hope” Poster Artist
The AP claims that Shepard Fairey violated the Digital
Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) in the creation of his
famous poster.
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/03/ap-uses-dmca-intimidate-hope-artist

* Court Expands Trademark Rights, Restricts Consumer Search
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that a
trademark owner can sue Google for trademark infringement
for selling its mark as a keyword as part of the AdWords
program.
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/04/second-circuit-expands-trademark-rights-restricts

* EU Copyright Term Extension Battle Heats Up
At least eleven countries’ COREPER representatives voted
against a proposal to extend sound copyright in the EU –
enough votes to block the proposal.
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/03/every-vote-counts-eu-copyright-term-extension-batt

* Observations from the Three-Strikes Rumor Storm
Though there appears to be no need for immediate concern
that customers could be targeted for disconnection, the
rumors and subsequent responses from ISPs reveal important
information about the state of play for three strikes.
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/03/observations-three-strikes-rumor-storm

* Warner Music Targeting More than YouTube
ZDNet columnist Jason Perlow reports that Warner Music came
after his wife’s video slideshow on Vimeo, another video
hosting site.
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/04/warner-music-targeting-more-youtube

* iPods, First Sale, Obama, and the Queen of England
President Obama reportedly gave an iPod, loaded with 40
show tunes, to England’s Queen Elizabeth II as a gift. Did
he violate the law when he did so?
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/04/first-sale-president-obama-and-queen-england

* More on Choruss, Pro and Con
The public debates about Choruss have begun, with those on
both sides contributing valuable thoughts about the
advantages and disadvantages of Choruss.
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/03/more-choruss-pro-and-con

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miniLinks

~ Social Network Sites “Monitored” in UK
The UK government proposed rules that would allow the use
of social networking sites to monitor criminal activity.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7962631.stm

~ Freedom on the Net
Freedom House takes comprehensive look at government
tactics for controlling communications around the world.
http://www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=383&report=79&group=19

~ “Playmobil Priest” Faces Company’s Wrath
A priest who transformed Playmobil figures into biblical
characters is facing copyright infringement claims.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hJAL_5AKOH4SHJ1rzWy5w8q16Gig

For more miniLinks:
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/04/minilinks-2009-04-10

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Announcements

* Come See EFF at RSA and MySQL!

EFF will be at two conferences this April: RSA and MySQL.
Come and see us at RSA, April 20-24, or at MySQL, April
21-22. Whichever conference you attend, please visit our
booth and grab some EFF swag during exhibit hours. We look
forward to seeing you!

For more information on RSA:
http://www.rsaconference.com/2009/us/index.htm

For more information on MySQL:
http://www.mysqlconf.com/mysql2009

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Usually ‘non for profits’  organizations ask me, you or anyone else for kind donations.  Well to be honest I ain’t that rich, especially if I’d have to spend a nickel for each request!  Consider this copy/paste action as my ‘virtual nickel’

Random Trivia

Hmm…

This is something I came across whilst stumbling. I am fairly new to stumbleupon! So if you see me around, be sure to drop me some recommendations?

Of course I have taken the liberty to make it portable.
Random trivia.

Enjoy.

Folklore.

Hmm…

I am not sure where I am going with this one?  But if I do know, you’ll be the first to know!

In the meantime:

You could do some reading here and here.

Or if you’re feeling up to it?  You may want to send me some decent links to Slavic fairytales like this one.

A passage on Vseslav the Werewolf

In the seventh age of Troyan, Vseslav cast lots for the damsel he wooed. By subterfuge, propping himself upon mounted troops, he vaulted toward the city of Kiev and touched with the staff of his lance the Kievan golden throne. Like a fierce beast he leapt away from them at midnight, out of the white town, having enveloped himself in a blue mist.

Then at morn, he drove in his battle axes, opened the gates of Novgorod, shattered the glory of Yaroslav, and loped like a wolf to the Nemiga from Dudutki. On the Nemiga the spread sheaves are heads, the flails that thresh are of steel, lives are laid out on the threshing floor, souls are winnowed from bodies. Nemiga’s gory banks are not sowed goodly – sown with the bones of Russia’s sons.

Vseslav the prince judged men; as prince, he ruled towns; but at night he prowled in the guise of a wolf. From Kiev, prowling, he reached, before the cocks crew, Tmutorokan. The path of Great Hors, as a wolf, prowling, he crossed. For him in Polotsk they rang for matins early at St. Sophia the bells; but he heard the ringing in Kiev.

Although, indeed, he had a vatic soul in a doughty body, he often suffered calamities. Of him vatic Boyan once said, with sense, in the tag: “Neither the guileful nor the skillful, neither bird nor bard, can escape God’s judgment.

Sauce:  Igor’s campaign.

And not some crappy comment like this one:

Because I felt like it…

Even though the mentioned scripts in this post work fine for me.  That said there always may be the possibility that something doesn’t work out for you?  One piece of advice I am quite obliged to give you is:

If you don’t ‘trust’ me than don’t run any of those scripts!!!  Here is a useful post in regards to the use of malicious commands, be sure to read up on them.

The reason for this post is quite simple.  Why do things the easy way when there is a ‘harder’ way to achieve the same.  In this instance I am referring too saving any webpage into a PDF document.  Now why would I want to do that?

The major reason for me would be that I want to have some documents for off-line use.  Of course I could stick to the saved html but no, I want to be portable and mobile.    Next reason for this complicated way is that I want to preserve the links!  In openoffice (export to pdf options) tick the boxes you see in the pictures below.

Anyway one of the easy ways is, that you can print to PDF directly in your browser while using the print (ctrl+p) feature provided by your browser.  Or if you have saved the page as an image (with pdfit?) you could easily do the following:
convert yourfile.png yourfile.pdf (imagemagick required)

The result:

trigun_-_wikipedia__the_free_encyclopedia

Now for the hard way.

Requirements:
antiword
imagemagick
ps2pdf
tidy
wvWare
w3m
In short on a debian based system:
sudo apt-get install antiword imagemagick ps2pdf tidy wvWare w3m

#Include example 1a: What’s in a name anyway.png
#Include example 1b: What’s in a name anyway.pdf
#Include example 2a: Vigilance.png
#Include example 2b: Vigilance.pdf
#Include example 3 : Moving To Openoffice Batch Converting Legacy Documents.pdf
#Include link to moving too open-office.
#Include link to pdfit
#Include link to scrapbook

How to do it?  The ‘complicated’ way?  First do this in terminal.

mkdir ~/Temp


As an alternative to scrapbook I could suggest using the ‘wget‘ utility!  aka

• wget -r -l1 http://somesite.com

Or just:

• wget http://somesite.com

wget -E -H -k -K -p http://somesite.com

Then again this would just screw up the links (Believe me [or don't!], but I have tried!)  Example1 and example2. Which by the way came from this site.

Then install the pdfit and scrapbook extensions into FireFox.  Why scrapbook? I am sorry to say this but scrapbook does a better job at capturing complete webpages than the ’save page as’ feature of FireFox.  Anyway be sure to change the ‘root’ to the folder we are going to use in the scripts below.  Which in my case is.

As for making screenshots of the complete page (alt+1) or a section (alt+2) of it whilst using pdfit.  The keystrokes alt+1 (simultaneously pressed) is used by pdfit to capture the WHOLE page as an image of the format of either .jpg or .png.  Unfortunately the keystrokes alt+1 also does the following in your browser, switch to the first tab on the lefthand side.  Which makes pdfit a complicated though still useful addon to use (see screenshots).

scriptname: scrapaspdf
Scriptname can be run directly from terminal, if you do this to your ~/.bashrc file.  Place these lines at the end of your file


PATH=$PATH:~/path/to/your/scripts
export PATH


Then open up a text editor and place the following code into a file we’ll save as scrapaspdf.  Don’t forget to chmod u+x nameofscript first!

On a sidenote although there is a loop present in each and every script I made but for some reason when executing the openoffice macro.  The ‘loop’ ends after one file?

Fyi, the scripts down below are mostly based on this one:


#!/bin/bash
H=”html.txt”
HOME=`echo ~`
TMP=”$HOME/Temp”
SCRP=”$TMP/ScrapBook/data”
FILE=”$SCRP/20*”

cd $TMP
ls $FILE/*html | sort > $H
cat $H | while read line; do
O=$(echo ${line})
# openoffice “$O”
openoffice -invisible “macro:///Standard.MyConversions.SaveAsPDF($O)”
done
sleep 30
cd $FILE
for i in *..pdf; #Replace extension.
do mv $i `basename $i ..pdf`.pdf;
done
sleep 30
mv index.pdf $TMP/index.pdf
rm $TMP/$H

echo “Annoying as this may be?”
echo “It is essential ‘to tell’ your scrapbook add on, “
echo “after running this script, “
echo “that your locally saved copy of ‘web site X’ has been removed. “
echo “When in FireFox: alt+k then rightclick on last entry. “
echo “(there should be only one!)”
echo “Choose delete, and yes you are sure. “
echo “Unless you want to convert the same webpage again. “
sleep 20
exit 0

So what does this code do?  It converts your last saved web page into a pdf file with clickable links!

Some more code!
scriptname: saveaspdf


#!/bin/bash

H=”html.txt”
HOME=`echo ~`
TMP=”$HOME/Temp”

cd $TMP
H=”html.txt”
ls $TMP/*html | sort > $H
cat $H | while read line; do
O=$(echo ${line})
# openoffice “$O”
openoffice -invisible “macro:///Standard.MyConversions.SaveAsPDF($O)”
done
sleep 30
cd $TMP
for i in *..pdf; #Replace extension.
do mv $i `basename $i ..pdf`.pdf;
done
rm $H
rm $TMP/*html
exit 0

This one converts any standalone html file you’ve saved in a directory named ~/Temp into a pdf with clickable links!

Ah just one more please?

O.k.

scriptname: dochack



#!/bin/bash

cd ~/Temp # Replace this with the directory where you saved your word doc
# wvWare
D="doc.txt"
ls *doc | sort > $D # Collect the files in the current directory
cat $D | while read line; do # Loop read the filenames from the file
I=$(echo ${line}) # Grab the nxt new filename
wvWare -x wvHtml.xml "$I" > "$I".html
tidy -config ~/Documents/scripts/config.txt "$I".html
done
rm $D

for i in *doc.html; #Replace extension.
do mv $i `basename $i doc.html`html;
done

rm -f *.doc
exit 0

## Or use antiword to turn word docs into text files
# Please uncomment the following lines
# And/or save the next lines into a new file
# Without having to comment the previous script out first
# T="doc.txt"
# ls *.doc | sort > $T # Collect the files in the current directory
# cat $T | while read line; do # Loop read the filenames from the file
# I=$(echo ${line}) # Grab the nxt new filename
# antiword "$I" > "$I".txt
# done
# rm $T

# for t in *.doc.txt; #Replace extension.
# do mv $t `basename $t .doc.txt`.txt;
# done
# exit 0

END

As always: Use at your own risk and that it may be of use to someone?

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Included files:

dochack.txt
config.txt
saveaspdf.txt
scrapaspdf.txt
tidyup.txt
sample.bashrc.txt

Handy portable e-reader…

Now the next item is a definite wanna have! Unfortunately at the moment due to technological restrictions this particular e-reader only displays black and white. I sincerely hope this will change in the future?

I have changed my mind recently and I really think I would prefer a BeBook especially when one considers this opportunity which comes with a discount of €44! (This includes a coupon of worth €75 to buy ebooks)

In the meantime you can either click on the image below.

Click for bigger version.

Or read all about it in this pdf? Naturally you could always go to their website instead!   Be sure to read all about the other goodies availabe on the site; as in about the iliad book edition and the digital reader series which features a bigger display!  Yay…

I so definitely want one, regardless of its price €599,-! 

ttfn,

Alex

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Related links:

• List of e-bookreaders
• ebookreaders.nl
• mybebook.com
• ebook.nl