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I’m 46 years old, male, from the United States. I’ve been a DailyLit member since October 30, 2007. My reading interests include SciFi, and Adventure.

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Ideas - Price in new book RSS feed

Good idea! We'll add it shortly.

Bugs - Wrong time

At the moment, we make some assumptions about Daylight Savings Time applying everywhere (and starting on the same dates). Since Sidney does its DST at the *opposite* period of the year as the US, the times end up off.

Eventually we'll do it more precisely, but it won't be very soon. So you just need to manually adjust the time to get it just right.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Eastern Standard Tribe - Just getting started

which technology seems particularly futuristic to you?

Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom - what drives whuffie?

I originally thought of it as explicit, kinda like a blog post/link/rating.

But...

"I pinged my Whuffie. I was up a couple percentiles -- sympathy Whuffie -- but it was falling: Dan and Lil were radiating disapproval. Screw 'em."

Does this mean that Dan and Lil's emotional state and its object were automatically "scraped"? Or that other people are watching this scene, and "rating" him? Or what?

Help - problem adding book roll to my blog

I'm seeing it on your blog now. Did you do anything since posting to make it appear?

Eastern Standard Tribe - loved it enough to buy 5 copies for friends

Actually, employees of mine at the time.

"Tribes are ways of getting things done."

Cory Doctorow - Someone comes to town?

Yes it was added months ago.

http://www.dailylit.com/books/someone-comes-to-town-someone-leaves-town

Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town - Really freaky but I really liked it

You don't get this mix, of the surreal with real-world public-policy, from too many people

Accelerando - one of my favorite books of last few years

Esp the first third, where things are relatively close to current reality. Awesome vision of transitional period.

Scroogled - Funny but scary

And all too believable.

100 Ways to Succeed/Make Money - 100 ways? I'm not even sticking around for #3...

Some people choose to accept narrow lessons from people they don't in-general respect. Others choose to discount any signal coming from someone for whom they've flipped the bozo (or evil) bit.

Of course, even if you learn a lesson from a bozo, you don't have to give them public credit. But that has its own weird side-effects, too...

Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom - where in the future are we?

So, we've got longevity/immortality.

And some sort of serious human interface to the net (assuming that "HUD" isn't built into glasses).

We have some amount of off-world travel.

Physical space (on Earth) is increasingly crowded.

But starvation doesn't seem to be an issue. (At least not for someone who's living with space shortages.) (Unless it's so natural to the narrator that he doesn't bother mentioning it.)

Pride and Prejudice - last two chapters

Please forward an empty-fragment email to support@dailylit.com and we'll take a look right away.

thx!

Ideas - Blackberry Launcher?

There's already a generic launcher that alerts you to having unread email.

http://www.software-for-blackberry.com/launcher.html

Do you not like reading your installments through email?

Another approach is install one of the free RSS reader applications. NewsGator is popular on many platforms, but there are many other Blackberry-specific options.
http://www.newsgator.com/Individuals/NewsGatorGo/Default.aspx
http://allrss.com/rssreadersblackberry.html

Or is there something else driving your interest?