I just found this beautiful article from Christian Science Monitor, ”New friend, new views of the world”. On another September 11, a young Muslim man lands on US soil straight from Egypt. September 11 sounded like an ominous day to Pamela Freundl Kirst. She was anxious and felt ‘’somewhat threatened”. But the true story unfolds into a lesson in friendship and tolerance.
I personally found Abdul’s customs and his strong will to stick to them, even though when he was by himself in America, somewhat strange. But as we see it works out well. It is not about converting each other but understanding each other. That’s pretty much my philosophy for world peace. CLICK HERE TO READ FULL STORY
When a young Muslim man comes to live with an American family November 29, 2007
Kindle- Amazon’s iPod for books. November 29, 2007
I am a nerdy nerdy nerd. I just read a blog post about ”Kindle” and posted a comment as my own review. I never knew Kindle has already kindled the markets! There are already 774 customer reviews at amazon.com!!! Well here you can read>> AMAZON’S KINDLE PAGE. and CNET’S Awesome Review too.
I know most of you technical new-agers who use Razor thin mobile phones, smart-phones, newest laptops, WiFi devices and of course Ipods are going to puke at the look of Kindle (that looks like a big old calculator). But I am just looking at the paper like look of its screen (in the pictures). And I am swooning….. But well, here is my own humble review to kindle the Kindle talk:
I love digital technologies to help readers. The main problem with reading books etc. on phone, palm tops is the battery life and small screen. Besides, those readers cannot be all that great because reading software is part of the device designed to do dozens of other things.
Despite my poverty, I have a Palm Tungston E2. It offers much longer battery life, almost- what they say- 7 hours (i think in reality its more like 4-5 hours). But even this I find quite annoyingly short. Second, issue is of course with the screen. Even a small paperback has much larger page. I hardly use it for reading now…
And of course, traditional books are so handy, come in different sizes and formats, no batteries to charge, the joys of flicking through the pages etc. So, if I have to have some digital solutions it has to come real close to the book. I read Kindle offers more than 7,000 page turns of battery life. This is awesome. The screen has a book like black and white look. And it has no other distracting functions.
As for reading New York Times on your phone for free, I guess, you still have to pay for the amount of data you download? Other than that, I cannot say more because I don’t own it. And as I am in New Zealand, I am sure I will be locked out of its functionalities and downloading functions…just as I bemoan not being able to enjoy great radio services like XM and Sirius… 
Epilogue—Sony’s reader seems to be the real competitor. I also remember Franklin’s bookman book cards (and readers) had done serious work into marketing portable book readers but that never really took off in a big way. I think Franklin people could have introduced something like Kindle. But well…
