My iPad and me...

Passing through the Duty Free Stores at Auckland Airport in late April, I bought an iPad2. In some ways it's just an expensive toy. But in other ways it's transformative. I access and use information and resources in a totally different way since getting it. I send and receive much of my email on it now, and download documents to store and read on screen. Sometimes I play with new apps for the fun of it, just to try out and see if they are useful or interesting. The good ones, I keep; others, I delete and look for alternatives. Lack of Flash is a drawback, as is the ability to use browsers besides Safari, but these are small points. The major part of my interface with the world wide web now is mediated by the iPad. Something significant is going on here.

Whatever happened to May?

After my last post, I realised I didn't post at all during May. Whatever happened to May? After we got home from New Zealand, life just seemed to go back to the pre-trip ways. Time now to reassess. Sad to learn tonight of the death of Miriam Karlin.

Summertime ... Living not easy...

Summertime started a few weeks ago, but real summer weather only appeared yesterday and today, up here in Yorkshire, at any rate. I'm doing some literature searches for a colleague, and it's not so easy from outside the world of academia - much less access to academic research databases. However, I completed the first part today, and will do the second part next week. Meanwhile, I shall enjoy the weekend sun, and read Marilyn French's "The Women's Room" for next week's book group.