I'd love to start converting my home to LED lights. But right now, nearly every bulb I see is 2700K. I *hate* that sickly yellow color. So I'm waiting for 3000 or better yet, 3500K bulbs.

I own a kindle fire and while it's not a home run by any stretch of the imagination, it's not bad. I like it...a lot. There are quite a few kinks that I really think Amazon should have known better than to not go ahead and fix. Bad word of mouth or ill will can cause a lot of damage if trust gets reduced. It could impact sales of the 2nd or 3rd generation device when they do finally get things right. By the same token, I know they were rushing something "good enough" to market in the hope of not getting left out. I guess it's a damned if you do, damned if you don't kind of situation.

FWIW,...I agree with all the gripes (and I have some other issues to boot, like graphic novels simply refuse to display on my unit. I get a white screen only and so far amazon support can't figure out the problem).

So, he's opted to remove the ability for employees to have a time delay for communication. I don't know about anyone else, but if my life is full of IMs, phone calls, and drive-by conversations and I can't get a blinking thing done. If it's not urgent, send an email ...and most issues at my workplace really do fall into the "not urgent" category. It would be utterly inefficient to interrupt my workflow every 15 minutes for an instant conversation.

Email also has the benefit of making the writer organize his/her ideas better. Plus, commitments are in writing. It's less likely for an email to be misinterpreted, but conversations can always be remembered in "creative" ways. The only people I've ever met who refused to do email were people who didn't want to be pinned down.....wanted to leave their options open, usually to stick other people with the work to do and/or the blame for a mistake.

From my experience (having lost a 12 year relationship) and I'm now in a 2 year old one...the big three issues that keep cropping up are money, chores, and sex.

Do you have similar ideas about the value of money and to what degree to save it, to what degree to take risk with it/invest it? Does one person spend almost every penny of their disposable income while the other saves...and thus the burden of buying big items like home repair etc. fall proportionally more on one person than the other? (assuming you proportion expenses relative to individual incomes)

Does one person value a tidy house more than the other? Trust me, if this is the case, you *will* eventually have issues over completely silly things like dishes sitting in the sink. But if you handle the differences early and can see that each person is keeping up with their end of the bargain/compromise, then living with the compromises isn't hard at all. Let the messy person have some space to themselves out of "public" view so the neat person doesn't have to rant that you can't have company over.

The last issue that I can almost guarantee will crop up is the frequency of sex. I one person is always in the mood while the other prefers several weeks between lovemaking....not fun. The person always in the mood feels like they're constantly begging and can get bummed out by all of the rejections. The person who's not in the mood will feel like they're always under assault. Why can't they be left alone for a little while? They're tired of being the fall guy or the one considered not normal.

Thank you for this post. If I'm interpreting the content correctly, kindle owners can download a purchase an unlimited number of times, but to maximum of 6 devices at a time. (the actual simultaneous devices are limited by the publisher and the purchaser doesn't know the limitation in advance...it could be 1-6 devices at a time. But Amazon is working to make this information available at the time of purchase eventually)

So it seems to be the big thing to remember to do is deactivate your kindle from your amazon account when you choose to upgrade. I think you can do it on the device via the settings menu or you can do it from your amazon account in the kindle management section.

Here's hoping that will take care of the situation. It would be annoying to be on your 6th device, decide to upgrade one, and have to call Amazon to release your content to the new device. They'll be flooded with calls in that case. So it's in their best interest to make the activation/inactivation something users can control themselves.

As someone who just started working in a library, I can tell you this. The privacy of the patrons is of the utmost importance. You agree (implicitly when you start work) to ensure that you will not reveal information like circulation records without complete compliance with the law by the requesting parties. If you can't agree to that, you shouldn't work in a library.

So much of the populace today seems to think that the right to privacy can't be abused because "if you didn't do anything, then you won't be affected". Well, I don't know what country they're living in, but in the "good ole usa" I often see someone who's managed to be misidentified, or simply be at the wrong place at the wrong time almost every night on the TV news. Occasionally these mistakes are perpetuated for such a long time that reputations are ruined and jobs are lost. There are legal channels available for authorities to use in order to request information (a supoena). I expect them to use them before coming to me. Period.