The Savage Detectives

My girlfriend got my The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño for my birthyday, and I have to say so far it’s pretty damn amazing.

Subjects: fiction, reading

Doggies on Drugs

Over at Filthy Habits, find my review of the book Pretzel on Prozac: The Story of an Immigrant Dog.

Subjects: nonfiction, review criticism, publications

Governor John

I like how all the reporting about Spitzer talks about him having “links to a prostitution ring” (following the New York Times’ lead, I think), as if this is a sophisticated corruption scandal like someone having “links to” the mob. When really, the guy is just a John.

Subjects: politics, news

Damnit

There doesn’t seem to be a better PDF reader (one that allows you to bookmark individual pages in a pdf) for even the jailbroken iPhone.
I guess I’m just going to have to make do with converting my PDFs to text with pdftotext and then using Readle to read them on my iPod.
Lame

Subjects: apple, ipod, lameness, […]

SDK (not) released

Apple isn’t releasing the SDK to the public until June. June! To get it now you have to pay $100 to become a “developer”.
I’m so jailbreaking this Touch.

Subjects: development, programming, sdk, ipod

iPhone/iPod Touch SDK

So it looks like the SDK is probably going to be released on Thursday. I’ve been not unlocking my iPod Touch in anticipation of this, since I’d rather do things in the approved way and not risk bricking my device. However, there are some rumors floating around that the SDK to be released is going […]