Document Writing, Calendar and Sattelite TV
Three thoughts I’ve just had. Well, one is about a week old but still.
I’m writing this from the waiting room of our garage in Haifa, waiting for Bessie to get her check up and polish. There’s a TV here showing a movie on Yes1 and it jumps and struggles and jitters a whole heck of a lot more than my two year old computer playing a 1080p movie.
And people wonder why we don’t have a television connection, just a monitor for movies and games.
Right now, when classes are finally over and I am moving into exam season, my calendar is freeing up and for the first time in several months I can see into next Monday. That’s kinda cool.
I know this is always presumptous to say but _I am_ writing a book. For those of you who know it, it’s the one I started here and took down for a serious rewrite – Nathanel’s story, which I think could really work as a full length novel.
The point is, I had it on Google Docs because I thought it was comfortable to keep it there where it allows me to write from anywhere. But a while back, with Google Drive and the, to my opinion, quite horrific terms of use, I decided to move it to Dropbox.
I know Dropbox isn’t completely secure and I should probably encrypt it but I can access it, with full WSIWYG editing, through my Office application here on my phone. And that is a lot more than I can say for the Google Docs/Drive app which fucks up my right-to-left text and makes editing a chore from hell.
It’s quite sad that this is the state of Google nowadays (Look up the Google+ Events launch) but I’m going with the better product.
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