CNN: Pope’s ex-diocese suspends sex-abuse priest
BBC: Cardinal Brady will not resign over abuse ‘cover-up’
Guardian UK: Pope ‘obstructed’ sex abuse inquiry

I think it is time to call it a day.

Daniel Miagany

Smart Bitches: IREX Digital Reader Review

I hate that mirror
It makes me feel so worthless
I’m an original sinner
But when I’m with you
I couldn’t care less
I’ve been getting away with it
All my life
Getting away with it
All my life
Electronic ~ Getting Away With It

Yet another over priced, over hyped, eInk Reader fails miserably to impress yet another customer. Color me surprised. Oh wait it’s eInk so they can’t see any color.

Listen folks a “Stylus Only” interface is yet another bass-ackwards technology that has already been tried and is a fully documented failure from way back in the 90s. I do not get these companies that for some reason blow gobs of money cranking out these eInk Readers but forget to review previous PDA interface failures before jumping into their next development cycle.

Here let’s do a random review of the Apple Newton from 1998 … How hard was that to come up with a quick example? Is that Apple Newton shit still around? If Apple could not sell that crap what makes IREX think they can?

Or is it IREX and the rest of these folks really are not spending that much time developing anything but just recycling old technology to scam a few bucks off those who did not tryout all those over priced PDAs the first time around?

Let’s see, I predict the next failure of an eInk Reader to function just like a Palm and run Android and have a crappy synch feature that is really junky and never quite works right and and and… You get where I am coming from? Old PDA technology sucked the first time and it sucks even more repackaged as eInk today.

From: Blogbus

Fictionwise has their eReader App for Android!

Now they have an app for both Google Android and Apple iPhone/iPad OS. Super smart!

Actor Peter Graves found dead

Bioshock ~ 1959 New Years Masquerade Lithograph

I know this is silly. OK, I found this cool website and I bought the 1959 New Years Masquerade Ball poster from Bioshock. You know, the one you see constantly throughout the game. BEST $20.00 BUCKS I EVER SPENT! The thing is huge and will frame nicely for the living room.

Anyway, if you are a video game player you might understand and for the rest of you… Go ahead and make fun of me but it is gorgeous.

Michael Flynt ~ Gay Erotic 3

Wouldn’t it be nice
If we could hop a flight to anywhere
So long to this life
So much for pretending
This bad luck’s never ending
Sheryl Crow ~ Can’t Cry Anymore

Scott over at Bill In Exile has been remembering for us…

The Age Of AIDS Part 1
The Age Of AIDS Part 2
The Age Of AIDS Part 3
The Age Of AIDS Part 4
The Age Of AIDS Part 5
The Age Of AIDS Part 6

It’s a good read for those interested in an insider look at AIDS and some of what I myself have lived through and been personally involved with for years now. I started my own private journey with HIV a little later than Scott did so my Twentieth Anniversary is still coming up here.

You might ask why I was so willing to share my own experiences over at Scott’s blog but I have rarely mentioned any of this here. Well, one reason is that it’s just not me and this blog I use for reading eBooks and the other reason is the horror is not over yet for any of us. There still is no cure. Everyone who has HIV right this minute still lives a life of dread holding their breath waiting for the other shoe to drop.

So even though I sit here almost 20 years in and I am a freak of nature if there ever was one, a physical anomaly of fucked up luck, in that I still am not taking ANY MEDS. I still live in the shadows of a reality about this disease that I am far too aware of because it has been driven home to me with death after death after death after death.

No lists of all the names of my dead friends and lovers in remembrance. Maybe when I can quit holding my breath or else it will have to wait for when I to can be simply another name listed from someone’s memory. Either way nothing has really ended and I can’t cry anymore.

Anyone who has bought an iTunes album with a booklet already knows that Apple iTunes has always had the built in ability to track and organize PDF eBook files. Albums in Apple iTunes that have booklets with them were always PDF format.

You can even copy your own DRMed PDF eBook files into iTunes as long as you associated the PDF to open using Adobe Digital Editions. This feature never allowed you to say copy these files onto the iPhone though.

Today with the latest information about iBooks using the ePub format I checked iTunes and I believe they will soon be updating the iTunes application to do this new trick with ePub files.

So keep an ear out there seems to be a lot of changes quickly coming up here with the iPad available in April and the good news sounds like you will soon be able to use iTunes or iBooks to organize your ePub formatted eBooks.