No wonder newspapers are having such a hard time
If this article is to be believed, and there's no reason I can see to doubt their math, Printing The NYT Costs Twice As Much As Sending Every Subscriber A Free Kindle.
I think the obvious second point of this is that it's amazing how cheap e-ink is now. I wonder how long it will be until there's a "E-book of the month" club that gives you, upon subscription, an ebook reader.
I love 3 in 1 oil
We were in the market for a new stroller for Phoebe, one with a bit more sturdiness for taking out on trail walks and the like. The obvious choice for us is the BOB Revolution. Sadly, it's almost $400. That seems like a crazy amount to spend on a second stroller. REI was having a sale, though, so we went down to look. Nice, nice stroller, but 20% of $389 is still not cheap.
But wait, it was REI's used gear sale weekend, and, lucky us, there was a Revolution there. It was returned because it was squeaky. Normally I'd say the people that returned it were a bit, well, prissy, for returning a squeaky stroller. In this case, though, they paid $400 for it, so I can't blame them.
Because it was returned with a problem, REI sold it to us for $150. I took it home, spent about ten minutes looking at it, squirted some 3 in 1 oil on a couple of joints, and now, no squeak.
BTW, I do believe that a $150 stroller is still pricey, but it is a very, very nice stroller
Sometimes Phoebe is a joy, sometimes …
Now that Phoebe is 1 year old, her behavior has really changed. She's crawling so fast, and trying to walk, and, when she wants something she really lets us know it.
And sometimes, wow, is she a handful.
But today, on a day where her Mom is gone all day for a class, she is being a real princess. She's playing on her mat, reading her books, playing with her blocks. My perfect baby.
For now.
Free Content on YouTube boosts (really boosts) Monty Python DVD sales
According to Can Free Content Boost Your Sales? Yes, It Can, Monty Python's DVD sales have increased by an astounding 23,000% on Amazon since they made all of their content available via YouTube.
I find the logic correct, but can those numbers be correct? 23,000% Sounds fishy to me.
Use Brief for Easy Feed Reading
I like to read news on a lot of different topics. Politics, gadgets, local news, sports, etc. RSS and Atom feeds are a great way to keep up with things, but I'm always on the hunt for a newsreader that fits into my processes, rather than forcing me to change my habits to work with it.
I've found one - Brief. Brief is a Firefox extension that makes reading feeds as easy as reading usenet posts using a good news reader. If you don't know what usenet is, well, go to Wikipedia
What Brief does is pull together all your feeds in the sidebar, give you quick access to unread items, and allows you to quickly mark them as read or actually go to the page and read it.
I know, it sounds simple, but it's really a great tool for keeping up with a variety of feeds.