Out of Ambit
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In the “iPhone App That I Will Never Buy Or Use” dep’t
Yes, you too can use that wonderful built-in motion sensor to pour virtual beer. ….Ooooooookay. Meanwhile, I truly feel there might be better things to run on an iPhone or iPod Touch. Tags: iPhone, useless, app, waste+of+electrons
Just noticed in the SAS (airline) on-board magazine: GPS for dogs
ZoomBak A-GPS Locator for Dogs (And it seems to me that if you could use it for dogs, you could use it for cats as well — assuming that the hardware’s not too big.) They also do locators for cars, bikes, family members, backpacks, etc. The devices report in via mobile phone, using the T-Mobile network [...]
“Out of Ambit” now has a .mobi version
For you iPhoners and other outwardly-mobile types, we now have a .mobi version of OOA. It’s at: http://outofambit.mofuse.mobi/ If you prefer to read Out of Ambit’s mirror blog at LiveJournal mirror (“Word Salad II”), we’ve got a mobile version of that too: http://wordsalad2.mofuse.mobi/ Have fun! Tags: .mobi, mobile, Out+of+Ambit, Word+Salad+II, LiveJournal
Slate countertops are starting to sound like a better idea than granite
The uranium content of granite has always been somewhat in our radar since we moved to Ireland, since there’s a lot of granite in Wicklow; and where there’s granite, because of the decay of the tiny amounts of uranium it often contains, sometimes there’s radon as well. But here’s a side effect I hadn’t given [...]
About the blogger
30+ years in print, 50+ novels, assorted TV and movie work, the NYT Bestseller List a few times, blah blah blah. Also: the Young Wizards series, 1983-2010 and beyond.
That said, sometimes I want to talk about anything but writing. This is one place where that happens.
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