Haje’s Brain

The world’s best-selling eBook reader – the Amazon Kindle – has received an upgrade, which has the mind-bendingly original name Kindle 2.

Now, don’t get me wrong, I love technology, and I drool at the thought of being able to carry 1,500 books with me in a third of the space of a MacBook Air – with 2 weeks worth of battery life… It’s pretty amazing stuff. Sure, the Kindle has a fantastic 241,164 books available, including the amazing Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, which, if you haven’t read it, would be a fantastic first download to your digital eReader. There’s even thousands and thousands of free books available for download on your Kindle! (more…)

There, I said it. But I also mean it. I woke up this morning to about 3 – okay, perhaps 5 – centimetres of snow on the ground. Enough to persuade me that riding a motorcycle to the station might not be the
wisest option. So instead I take the bus, who – despite driving very carefully indeed – nearly spins out on the first sharp bend.

Anyway, so I made it to the station in about 45 minutes instead of 20 minutes (very careful bus driver), and I arrive to discover that all the trains are either 45 minutes delayed (!) or cancelled altogether. Now, I don’t want to appear cynical, but a train weighs… what… 200 tonnes? 300? I completely fail to understand how a loosely conglomerated alliance of snowflakes can stop a six thousand horsepower colossus of steel. (more…)