Monday, February 04, 2008
And Another Thing!
I can't help myself -- does this sound cool or what? From Publisher's Lunch:
Check out the Danger Room Blog for interesting background and links. I'm not so sure Erik Prince is reclusive, since he's certainly been in the news a lot lately. And can you say, Damage Control? Search the Danger Room Blog for the Blonde Rescue story. It's hilarious.
Also, here is the tea I drink every morning. I love it. I used my cell phone to take a picture of the Welsh side of the container as I am convinced that improves the taste.
Speaking of Fun Tricks With Cell Phones, my Grand Central editor emailed me about either faxing or sending her a scanned copy of my signature to stick in a teaser thingee for My Wicked Enemy. So, I'm thinking, Fax? Scan? What the?? Way too much work people. So I signed my name on a sheet of paper, took a picture of it with my cell phone and emailed it to her from the phone. Took about 2 minutes. A while back when my work laptop was blue-screening, I'd take a photo of the BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) and send them to tech support so they could read the error messages. Because as any Windows user eventually learns, once you get a BSOD, your computer is frozen and there is no way except by writing it down to save the error message*. Until the cell phone camera... Same thing here, I thought. The lighting for my signature pic was not ideal, but so far I haven't heard that the jpeg wasn't usable.
* OK, I'm sure the Windows event log has the message logged, or if not there, then in the stack dump, but have you ever tried to read a stack dump? And besides, some of those BSOD's are fatal errors. You'll never get to that hard drive again. Sending a photo is a lot faster.
NON-FICTION: BUSINESS/INVESTING/FINANCE
Reclusive CEO of Blackwater Worldwide Erik Prince's WE ARE BLACKWATER, an insider's account of the controversial company that has supplied bodyguards and support-and-rescue personnel to hot spots around the world, including the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq, promising to "refute criticisms of the company, and take the reader on thrilling missions into hostile territory," to Regnery.
Check out the Danger Room Blog for interesting background and links. I'm not so sure Erik Prince is reclusive, since he's certainly been in the news a lot lately. And can you say, Damage Control? Search the Danger Room Blog for the Blonde Rescue story. It's hilarious.
Speaking of Fun Tricks With Cell Phones, my Grand Central editor emailed me about either faxing or sending her a scanned copy of my signature to stick in a teaser thingee for My Wicked Enemy. So, I'm thinking, Fax? Scan? What the?? Way too much work people. So I signed my name on a sheet of paper, took a picture of it with my cell phone and emailed it to her from the phone. Took about 2 minutes. A while back when my work laptop was blue-screening, I'd take a photo of the BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) and send them to tech support so they could read the error messages. Because as any Windows user eventually learns, once you get a BSOD, your computer is frozen and there is no way except by writing it down to save the error message*. Until the cell phone camera... Same thing here, I thought. The lighting for my signature pic was not ideal, but so far I haven't heard that the jpeg wasn't usable.
* OK, I'm sure the Windows event log has the message logged, or if not there, then in the stack dump, but have you ever tried to read a stack dump? And besides, some of those BSOD's are fatal errors. You'll never get to that hard drive again. Sending a photo is a lot faster.
Labels: Fun With Cell Phones, publishing, Tea
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