close your eyes

and enjoy... :)

presents?? presenting??

ok, after endless discussions i finally looked it up and i have to admit that 'to present' can be used for expressing 'to give someone a gift'. HOWEVER (for all of you, who have been rejoicing too much now) it is not used as in 'present something to someone' (which rather sounds like introducing someone to their present...'pleased to meet you..') but like 'to present someone with something'....

enjoy also all the other variants where this nice verb can be used:


(taken from www.dictionary.com)

about books

When searching for technology feedback about a certain notebook, I came accross the following forum discussion about real books... get ready for the geek approach to the classic of knowledge distribution :)

But nothing, absolutely nothing replaces the feel of owning a whole piece of complete knowledge in your own possession.

Besides which, books smell nice, look pretty, can be read in any position, you can make your own notes in the margins, are infinitely portable and can last for a lifetime. They're basically the perfect technology.

Heh, true. Nobody's managed to obsolete them yet, after a couple of thousand years. A little less if you only count from the time of Gutenberg. And nobody's figured out how to ruin them with DRM yet, either.

Although I guess that should read ARM (Analog Rights Management)....


At least until then, it's one place where fair-use rights undeniably apply: No one has yet been sued for lending a book to a friend... Notice I said "yet" again.... :-)