You can share a terminal session using your Kindle, which means you can use it as an external monitor for text-only applications. You won’t be able to do much web browsing or design work beside ASCII art, but if you’re a coder or a sysadmin, I’m sure this is not really going to bother you. Here’s a brief list of steps required to get this hack working. Jailbreak your Kindle. Install a Terminal application on it so that you can open […]
A few days ago my wife and I were walking around Torrey Pines State Reserve near San Diego, admiring some of the plants in a small garden. An older gentleman who was part of the park’s staff saw us and exclaimed: You kids are walking so slowly! I took that as a compliment. Society seems so rushed sometimes. If time is fixed and valuable, wouldn’t you want to try to stretch your relative perception of it? Edit: after thinking […]