Job Vacancy – Financial Services

Sadly it’s been taken down now – but I do hope they found someone…

Sony Reader information

Over at Mobileread we’ve been talking about how often we get asked about our Sony Readers. I’ve raved about mine here before, so as you’ll know, I love it, and I’m more than happy to talk about it at length.

But after a while it can get a little tedious repeating the same information, and worse, if the person I’m talking to is seriously interested they have to remember it if they want to get one themselves.

So, I printed up some of those Avery perforated business cards with the most important details to be able to give to people who ask about the reader. My cards say…

Sony Reader PRS 505 (www.sonystyle.com for specs and details)
Can purchase online through ebay or B&H photo video NY (www.bhphotovideo.com) or in person in the US and Europe
Best software Calibre (calibre.kovidgoyal.net)
Best source of ebooks www.fictionwise.com and www.gutenberg.org (and tons of others)
Best source of additional information about this and other ebook readers www.mobileread.com
And it is the best gadget I have ever owned.

I mentioned this on Mobileread and some bright spark suggested turning them into a shareable Google doc so anyone else who wanted to print them out could.

So I did – and it’s here.

Update:

Well as I predicted the hard drive did not make it through the back-up process (persistent I/O errors for those of you who care)

However it turned out to be pretty easy to get my entire music collection back from my iPod (I love Terminal – is there nothing you can’t do) So in the end I lost some back-ups, which were easy enough to re-back-up, and movies which meant having the re-rip the DVD’s but again, no big deal.

The new hard drive is a whisper quiet Fujitsu 250GB, in the same kind of brushed aluminium as my MacBook (co-ordination is important).

The BCC was cut out of my leg yesterday evening, it was less painful than I expected, but my leg is feeling a little tender and throbby today.

So, on the whole, noting was as bad as I thought

Bummer

Things that can ruin your day….

Portable hard drive crashing taking with it your 80GB of Music and 40GB of movies.(1)

Getting diagnosed with Basal Cell Carcinoma.(2)

If both happen in the same 24 hour period you are officially having quite a bad day.

(1) I am currently nursing the drive and attempting to make a back-up before it actually collapses on me. I don’t fancy my chances.

(2) It’s on my leg and I’m having it cut out next week. BCC is generally non-maglinant and not a big deal. But they’re still going to cut a chuck out of me which will require stiches and will scar. I’m not concerned about the BCC, I just don’t like pain much…