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The skies are blue and filled with a suitable number of fluffy white clouds, and it is blargingly cold around here! So cold, I have the heater running in the office!

I've just put the finishing touches on a rush job for today, and have another, less-urgent rush for tomorrow; this, on top of the 30-pager for Monday, which I've just had a chance to look at. The source file is "electronic," in that the information is inside of a PDF file, and upon printing it out, my estimation of the quality of the images is much improved, so I think I'll sic FineReader at it...

An idea for an essay has come to mind, examining the parallels in the conflict between proprietary and "open source" software and the emerging conflict between "mainstream" and "amateur" media (i.e., the "blogosphere").  More important than the parallels themselves are the reactions of the entrenched Powers That Be to the newcomers.

But now, I must get back to work.

Cheers...

Watch where you sit!

I was vectored over to Electric Venom to read a marvelous piece on the adventure of selling a home.

To make an already long story short, I asked our realtor to contact the realtor for the first set of buyers (the ones whose offer was 23% lower than what we wanted and whose realtor was an idiot) and share with them the detailed self-sodomy instructions which he now knew by heart.

My, my, my... certainly not genteel, but nevertheless an interesting turn of the phrase!

Cheers...

Winding down...

FineReader did its job with the source document PDF file and afterward, I spent a bit of time formatting the output. The result is a fairly clean Word file (5800 source words), despite the fact that certain parties had highlighted various sections of the source text (ye gods!), which only made life a little harder when it came to correcting FineReader's mistakes. I blitzed through the first 1000 words fairly quickly; I expect the rest of the document will submit with equal resignation in the days to come.

The charge on the Samsung's battery seems to degrade more gradually here in Pagosa country than in the city. While I was in Houston, the typical discharge cycle for the battery was three days, after which I'd charge the unit overnight. Upon returning to Colorado last week, I charged the unit Thursday night (if memory serves), and finally had to put it back in the charger this morning. Of course, my talk time profile has also changed, but I'm not at all sure the change has been radical. That reminds me, I should probably devote some time this weekend to putting my old Motorola Star-Tac up for sale on eBay, together with all of the old unit's accessories.

Time to take a break and wind down for the day. There's plenty left over for tomorrow.

Cheers...