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A colophon is the traditional way for a publisher to insert on the last page of a book comments about the publishing and design choices that were made during the production process. I like the sound of the word so I’ll use it to wrap up this blog of my summer 2010 vacation.
The vacation started on 7/20/2010 with a flight from SFO to BOS and ended on 8/5/2010 with the return flight from BOS to SFO. A blog entry was made for each day, but the actual posting date was about a week later. The delay was to give time for processing the photos. The URL for the blog is:
http://nhtwo-fingertyping.blogspot.com/
http://nhtwo-fingertyping.blogspot.com/
The reader who wants to read about events chronologically may wish to skip to the 7/20 SFO to BOS entry, which is the last entry in the BLOG ARCHIVE that appears on the right. You can then read up the archive list. Confusing, but that seems to be how this blog software works. The actual date described in each entry is given in the entry title and at the start of each entry.
The title of the blog, Two-finger typing (actually two fingers and a thumb), comes from the way I used the virtual keyboard on the Apple iPad, which was where the blog drafts were written. Casual bumps of the virtual keypad by stray fingers cause strange typing errors to appear in the text. At times these errors made my text unreadable, so I switched from touch typing to using two fingers for letters and the right thumb for the space bar—slow but more accurate.
We had a great vacation and want to thank all the people who made that possible.
A selection of the photos taken on the vacation was posted to an album on Google's Picasa web photo site. The album is linked to the on line blog on Blogspots. (Click the Album cover photo to bring up the album.)
Loose Ends: today, 8/21, I finished the eBook Blood Harvest, a book I downloaded at the Starbucks in Keene, NH. It is a thriller set in the English countryside. A serial killer is on the loose and the vicar of the church and a psychiatrist must find the killer to save a 2 year old girl from a horrible end. It's the kind of book you can read on airplanes amid all sorts of distractions. It is a good read, as they say, but not for the squeamish.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/apr/25/blood-harvest-sj-bolton-review
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/apr/25/blood-harvest-sj-bolton-review
Such is vacation reading material.
After reading three novels on my iPad, I think it has proven itself as a delightful eBook reader. However, its funny keyboard takes some getting used to.
Cheers.
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