Apple Co Founder Solves Problem of Lack of MultiTasking and Poor Battery Life on I-Phone

No not Steve Jobs, the other one, Steve Wozniak, affectionately known as "Woz" To quote:-

WOZ: By the way, I solved the problem of battery life and [the lack of] multitasking on the iPhone.

Interviewer: Really?

Woz: Yeah. I just have two iPhones, so if the battery runs down on the first one, I can use the other. And if I'm talking on one, I can use the other one to look something up. You would not believe how much use I get out of that.

See

http://www.newsweek.com/id/235567

US Overtook Russia as Worlds Largest Gas Producer last Year

Two interesting articles on Shale Natural Gas which is a new method of extracting Gas from Shale rocks via process called "Fracking".

Apparently the US overtook Russia as the world's largest producer of Natural Gas and it promises to make the US energy self sufficient for the next 100 years.

Articles from The Economist and The Financial Times,

Imagine turning your Nokia Phone into a WIFI Router - For Free.

Sounds incredible, but that is what you can do with Joikuspot. (www.joikushop.com)

I just downloaded it, installed it in 2 minutes and had my laptop on the web straight away. There is a premium edition for 9 euros.

Strikes me that this is an excellent corporate solution for companies wondering what is the best way to give their employees laptops mobile internet access.

S

Mark Twain: "[You are the] scion of an ancestral procession of idiots stretching back to the Missing Link."

Letter from Mark Twain to an early w20th century Spammer trying to sell him medicine. (Think of those Viagra emails.)

Comes from here where the original is reporduced.

http://www.lettersofnote.com/2010/01/youre-idiot-of-33rd-degree.html

Nov. 20. 1905

J. H. Todd
1212 Webster St.
San Francisco, Cal.

Dear Sir,

Your letter is an insoluble puzzle to me. The handwriting is good and exhibits considerable character, and there are even traces of intelligence in what you say, yet the letter and the accompanying advertisements profess to be the work of the same hand. The person who wrote the advertisements is without doubt the most ignorant person now alive on the planet; also without doubt he is an idiot, an idiot of the 33rd degree, and scion of an ancestral procession of idiots stretching back to the Missing Link. It puzzles me to make out how the same hand could have constructed your letter and your advertisements. Puzzles fret me, puzzles annoy me, puzzles exasperate me; and always, for a moment, they arouse in me an unkind state of mind toward the person who has puzzled me. A few moments from now my resentment will have faded and passed and I shall probably even be praying for you; but while there is yet time I hasten to wish that you may take a dose of your own poison by mistake, and enter swiftly into the damnation which you and all other patent medicine assassins have so remorselessly earned and do so richly deserve.

Adieu, adieu, adieu!

Mark Twain

Ulysses has been "translated" into a comic

See link here

http://www.ulyssesseen.com/comic/us_comic_tel_0002.html

and good old "Plump Stately" below.

S