Gary Drumm – PMP, ITIL

Well, after spending a couple of hours browsing forums and support sites, I found out what was causing all of my issues with the Reader.  Turns out that one of the book files was corrupted.  It took so much digging because I was describing the specific problem in too great a detail in my search inquiries.  To fix the issue was quite simple, sort of…  I completely wiped the Reader, uninstalled the software, and deleted all of the sync logs and databases.  Then I reinstalled everything, re-downloaded my books, and then re-sync’d it with the reader.  Everything works now.

At any rate, I’m happy that I got the thing working.  I’ve been enjoying reading several books at once, which is good for my ADD. Currently I’m reading the following books:

The Truth About Profitting From Social Networking – By Patrice Anne Rutledge, which I’m reading in order to learn how to maximize my online presence.

Outragious, Contagious Joy – By Ed Young, which I’m reading for a study we’re currently doing at my church.

I also just finished Leadership Above The Line – By Dr. Sarah Sumner, which I read for the sheer joy of learning something new about leadership. I’ll write a short review in another post later.

Overall, I’m glad I got the thing working again.  Now I’m finding myself taking it with me on family outings where I might get an opportunity to read a little bit.  I also think it will come in handy when I start school next month, since some of the reading materials I’ll have to use are available in e-book format. Man, I love technology… when it works.

OK, so I used to own a computer store back in 2001/2002.  We tagged ourselves “The home of the $99 laptop” and kept a lot of the $99 versions around, but we primarily sold, what was at the time, a $399 laptop.  The Dell Latitude CPx.  I used to have tons of these things around.  We probably sold an average of about 20-30 of these every month.  Some time in 2003, I think, I loaned one of them to my buddy’s little sister so she could use it to write a fiction novel she was working on.

Well, she finished the novel and I just got the laptop back a few days ago.  Now, I don’t really “need” another laptop, but I thought it might be fun to use this one for something.  So, like all geeks, I’ve decided to drop the latest version of Ubuntu on it.  Of course, a machine this old isn’t without it’s problems, chief among them is the fact that the backlight on the display no longer works, which means it will have to be hooked into and external monitor, but other than that I think it’s a great candidate for Linux box.