“Download AJHP Abstracts to Kindle Reader – Users of the Kindle wireless reading device, from Amazon.com Inc., can now automatically download abstracts of AJHP articles as they become available.”

AJHP abstracts are delivered directly to the Kindle e-reader via Amazon’s Whispernet for a monthly subscription of $1.99. However, details are a little sketchy as there is limited information available at the Amazon website.

It’s nice to see AJHP embracing digital technology. It’s a little late in the game and only abstracts are currently available, but it’s clearly a step in the right direction. Hopefully this is the first of many new digital offerings from AJHP and ASHP. I would eventually like to see AJHP journal articles available in their entirety for all digital readers. Articles are currently available for download in PDF format, but that’s really not the same as having a document formated for use on an e-reader.

Additional information can be found at the Amazon website here.

I’ve been waiting for an e-reader that will allow me to read PDF files without having to zoom in and out or dance around the screen. I’ve tried reading on my Droid and my iPod Touch, and while possible, I wouldn’t want to do it for an extended period of time. It’s just not convenient.

The Kindle DX was the first e-reader to hit the market with a screen big enough to accommodate my needs, and it was my front runner for quite a while. However, before dropping $500 on the DX I wanted to see some of the new devices that have been “on their way” since early 2009. Some of these devices are listed below.

Kindle DX
The Kindle DX offers a 9.7” display and is only 0.38 inches think. The DX has 4GB of memory with approximately 3.3GB available for storage. Available for $489.00 from Amazon.

After waiting for all the new technology I’m probably still going to end up going with the Kindle DX. It has a large display, is battle tested and is the most reasonably priced of the currently available large screen e-reader devices.

Plastic Logic QUE proReader
The QUE proReader offers a 10.7” plastic touchscreen display and is only 1/3 of an inch thick. It is available in two models: a 4GB for $649.00 and an 8GB for $799.00. The Plastic Logic site is taking preorders now for the QUE proReader, which should ship sometime in April of this year.

There are two reasons I probably won’t buy a Plastic Logic device. First, they won’t be shipping until mid-April and second, the price tag. While the QUE proReader isn’t necessarily aimed at the general consumer, the cost of the device will keep many away.

Skiff Reader
The Skiff offers an 11.5 inch “Metal Foil” touchscreen display and is only 0.25 inches thick. The Skiff Reader has 4GB of internal memory with 3+ GB available for content. No pricing information or release date is currently available

The Skiff Reader is probably the perfect device for healthcare professionals that want a true journal reading experience on an electronic device. The Skiff reader has a flexible screen and the largest reading surface of any e-reader on the market. The biggest problem is you can’t purchase one.

A different approach to reading electronic documents may come via Pixel Qi’s new transflective LCD screen. According to Gizmodo “In the Pixel Qi display’s current form, it’s impressive, though nowhere near perfect. In its backlit LCD mode, it’s just about as good as any other 10.1-inch, 1024×600 netbook display, except that the viewing angle seems more limited, before the color started warping. Head on, color seems solid. Though it won’t win any illumination showdowns, it’s plenty bright. On the Lenovo S10 used as the demo unit, it immediately switched to the electrophoretic reflective mode—where backlighting is replaced by ambient light reflecting off the back of the screen. In that mode, it really is just as crisp as the Kindle for reading text. You can watch video in this mode too, though it’s not exactly pretty (the point being you don’t have to wait 10 years for the damn screen to refresh when you turn a page). They wouldn’t speculate on how much battery life improves when you turn off the backlight, simply stating that it saves you 2 watts of power.”

Photo of Kindle next to netbook with Pixel Qi screen (from Gizmodo.com)

The Pixel Qi screen will be most useful when installed in some form of tablet device like the Notion Ink Adam. The tablet form factor makes reading much easier than on a laptop, especially when you’re traveling or just sitting in your favorite chair relaxing at home.

The advantages to the e-readers like the Kindle DX, QUE proReader and Skiff Reader are clear; larger reading area than mobile phones and similar devices, long battery life, light weight, and they are easy on the eyes. The disadvantages are the slow screen refresh rates associated with e-ink devices, which really isn’t that big of a problem for reading, and the cost. I’ve used a couple of e-readers, namely the Kindle and the Nook, and have found them to be quite nice.

The advantages to using a laptop, netbook or tablet pc with a Pixel Qi screen are the ability to watch video, the ability to use backlighting when needed and no need to carry a secondary reading device. The disadvantage is really the lack of battery life when compared to the dedicated e-reader devices above. Even with the improved battery life promised by the Pixel Qi technology, I don’t think it will be anywhere near currently available e-ink devices.

- The Twilight Saga: New Moon was #1 at the box office for the second weekend in a row. Last weekend my family and I took in the Blind Side, which came in just behind New Moon at the box office. The Blind Side was a very good movie, but I would encourage anyone  interesting in seeing it to read the book The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game first. There are some important things from the book that didn’t make it to the big screen.

- Check out the Annual Ink Blog Awards posted by Warner Crocker. There are some great links to tech blogs.

- If you want to see a great list of Tablet PCs, Netbooks, Laptops and other gadgets to buy the geek in your life for Christmas, be sure to check out  Tablet PC2’s Annual Santa’s List.

- Just in case you missed it, the CrunchPad is dead. I’ve been reading about how wonderful the CruchPad was going to be for well over a year now. Am I disappointed? I don’t think so. It’s hard to miss something that never really existed. I’m still waiting on the Apple Tablet to arrive on the scene. On a positive note, here’s a cool concept for a Sports Illustrated tablet.

- The Spoof: “I’m only as good as my suppliers,” Santa explained. “What am I supposed to tell all the good little girls and boys, and the good BIG boys and girls, who wanted a Nook for Christmas?” Shaking his head from side to side, he said, “As usual, I’m left holding the bag.” – This in response to the Nook from Barnes & Noble being sold out and not available until sometime in early 2010. Oops, there goes someones Christmas gift. If you’re interested in getting a better look at the Nook Engadget has some photos from an anonymous user.

- The Forrester Blog: “2009 has been a breakout year for eReaders and eBooks–device sales will have more than tripled by the end of this year, and content sales are up 176% for the year–but 2010 will be anything but boring.” – The blog goes on to list 10 eBook predictions for 2010. The two predictions that I am most hopeful to come true are: “eTextbooks will become more accessible” and “Magazine and newspaper publishers will launch their own apps and devices”. Are you listening ASHP? I would love to have a dedicated pharmacy, medical, and scientific journal e-reader.

- The EBook: “The world’s first electronic textbook!” The PocketBook 901 offers a 9.7-inch screen and should go on sale sometime in the first quarter of 2010. It’s a nice looking device. The site is in Russian, but the translated page is here.

- Healthcare Technology Online: “The application of RFID technologies in hospitals has been modest, however, primarily due to cost issues. Like most electronic technologies, RFID unit costs have fallen dramatically within the past few years, but have not yet reached the “tipping point” of economic rationality for cash-conscious hospitals. In the 2008 Annual HIMSS Leadership Survey, 15 percent of respondents said their organization uses RFID and 43 percent anticipated using it within two years. To date, RFID in healthcare has been limited primarily to asset management and supply chain applications.” – I continue to believe that RFID is an underutilized technology just waiting for a home in hospital pharmacy.

- Information on using Google Wave in Healthcare: 1)  Healthcare Informatics Forum and 2) Archetypical. There are a group of pharmacists experimenting with Google Wave as a way to interact at ASHP MCM. If you’re interested in checking it out just type “with:public ashp” in the Wave search field.

- Archives of Internal Med. 2009;169(21):1996-2002: “A physician and pharmacist collaborative intervention achieved significantly better mean BP and overall BP control rates compared with a control group. Additional research should be conducted to evaluate efficient strategies to implement team-based chronic disease management.” – One thing to make note of in the article is the 96.2 percent acceptance rate of pharmacist’s recommendations. This is a very high number. Well, certainly higher than the physician acceptance rate for my recommendations anyway.

- Military Medical/CBRN Technology: “Automation at military pharmacies has streamlined and improved delivery methods in recent years to bring them into the 21st century, helping save pharmacists from counting individual pills, save pharmacies from suffering product loss because of inexact inventory procedures that lead to drug expiration, and sometimes even save the lives of patients, who might in the past have received the wrong prescription as a result of human error.” – The article is a rather simplistic view of things, but interesting nonetheless. The best part was the concluding paragraph: “it’s about the diagnosis, and the prescriptions and what interactions the medications are going to have—and here they come out of pharmacy school, and they go into a pharmacy and they spend all of their time doing manual work, running around trying to find out where the pills are,” Mullenger said. “It’s not the right work for them to spend their time on.” - Exactly.

- Healthcare IT News: “The Department of Veterans Affairs and Kaiser Permanente are launching a pilot program to exchange electronic health record information using the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) created by the Department of Health and Human Services. The pilot program slated to begin mid-December 2009, will connect Kaiser Permanente HealthConnect and the VA’s electronic health record system, VistA, two of the largest EHR systems in the country.” – This will be something to keep an eye on as it will become a model of how large healthcare systems can link information.

- Medhaps: “ Doctors Told to Ignore Facebook Come-ons – Medical Defense Union (MDU), a non-profit organization that seeks to “defend the professional reputations of our members when their clinical performance is called into question,” warns physicians that they should not respond to advances by patients on social networking sites–not even to politely say “no.” “– Very interesting. This kind of goes against the whole social media trend. Doesn’t it?

- Florence dot com: “A decade of studying what actually makes high-consequence industries reliable has sent healthcare stakeholders back to some foundational behavior-based learning. It turns out that things like speaking clearly, repeating words to be certain they have been understood; taking turns; using “inside” voices; and getting plenty of rest matter when individuals rely on complex processes to deliver intended outcomes.” – Imagine that, it’s not all about the technology.

- PLoS Computational Biology: “Here, we present a high-throughput approach to the exploration of such parameter sets, leveraging recent advances in stream processing hardware (high-end NVIDIA graphic cards and the PlayStation 3′s IBM Cell Processor). In analogy to high-throughput screening approaches in molecular biology and genetics, we explored thousands of potential network architectures and parameter instantiations, screening those that show promising object recognition performance for further analysis. We show that this approach can yield significant, reproducible gains in performance across an array of basic object recognition tasks, consistently outperforming a variety of state-of-the-art purpose-built vision systems from the literature.” – In other words, these scientists from Harvard and MIT are working to reverse engineer the brain’s ability to make something usable out of visual data. Now that’s pretty neat stuff. Check out the video below.

Finding a better way for computers to “see” from Cox Lab @ Rowland Institute on Vimeo.

- The most popular searchengine searchpharases that brought people to my site this week: “new lcd technology“, “droid lexi comp“, “lexi comp droid“, “siemens pharmacy program short cuts“,  “shareable ink“, “lexi comp for droid“. Take note of the number of lexi-comp references in the top six phrases, i.e. three times. I’m hoping to get my hands on a newer beta version soon.

- Epocrates is looking for beta testers for WebOS. This is exciting news for Palm Pre owners.

- I will be in Las Vegas again next week attending the 2009 ASHP MCM. I’m very excited about the trip as I plan to connect with several people and attend several interesting education sessions. I’ll be sure to keep everyone up to date.

Have a great weekend everyone.

The Patient’s Doctor:  “Ten reasons why you should use a computer in your practice – Have you ever lost your temper because your patient has lost his medical records, and does not know what medications he is taking? Are you fed up of having to write the same prescription again and again? Aren’t you impressed by other doctors who give their patients crisp, professional word-processed medical summary sheets? How are you going to compete with corporate hospitals who can access their patient’s medical records at the click of a button? The good news is that the same technology is now easily and inexpensively available for you to use in your own clinic! IT can help you improve your documentation and storage; and actually increase your productivity and efficiency, by allowing you easy access instantly to all your patient’s medical records, no matter where you are!” – This post lists 10 reasons why physicians should use computers in their practice. There are some light hearted reasons like ‘look cool’ and ‘impress your patients”, but there are some serious reasons as well like ‘save time’ and ‘increase productivity’.

Magic Scaling Sprinkles: “The Meaning of Information Technolgy – I cannot help but be a technological optimist because technology is mankind’s only bulwark against the barbarism of heaps. But I’ll grant that technology is imperfect; it is sometimes fair to criticize the Tyranny of Technology. The usual argument goes that all these tweets and text messages and notifications that “a software update is available” leave no space quiet, provide no room for contemplation. It is true: we do live in a world of interruptions; interruptions created by information technology. But we should not be surprised by this fact and no more should we despair of it. One generation of technology solves the problems of the previous but causes problems of its own. The next generation of technology repeats this story; a story as old as mankind itself. This is the dialectics of history.” – I found this post to be interesting, well written and thought provoking.

Newsweek: “Wired for Hypocrisy – That’s pretty much the case, according to new research. Since actions cannot be undone, the only option when they conflict with beliefs—which produces the phenomenon called cognitive dissonance—is to alter the beliefs. When people experience cognitive dissonance, it turns out, brain activity causes us to back and fill, mentally. The result is that we change our beliefs so that they are once again aligned with our actions. Although well known in psychology—the idea that people change their attitudes to reduce the psychological pain of cognitive dissonance dates back to the 1950s—the phenomenon has been a mystery neurobiologically. That is, its brain basis has been a black hole. Which makes this first stab at an explanation particularly intriguing: the brain regions involved in resolving cognitive dissonance are so nimble, enabling us to find rationalizations like that of the Hummer-driving green, it’s a wonder anyone can stick to his principles.” – I see this all the time as I drop my children off at school. What we currently see as “normal” disturbs me at times.

The same story from two different sources:  ChannelWeb:  “Report: iPhone E-book Popularity Will Challenge Amazon, B&N – Is Apple (NSDQ:AAPL) the one holding all the aces in the exploding market for e-books and e-readers? Apple doesn’t have a dedicated e-reading device of its own to compete with the likes of Amazon’s Kindle and Barnes & Noble’s Nook. But it may not need one when it already has iPhone — and e-reading and e-book applications are seeing levels of popularity on the iPhone like never before.” eWeek: “Apples iPhone Could Become Next Hot E-Reader Says Report – One of the most popular e-reader devices on the market could soon be the iPhone, according to a research note by analytics company Flurry, which observed a marked rise in the number of e-book-related applications available through Apple’s App Store in September and October.” –I just don’t see this happening. The e-reader crowd isn’t about to give up their beautiful eInk devices like the Sony and Kindle. I’ll give you the convenience of the iPhone as an e-reading platform, but would never use it as my primary e-reader. There’s room for all the players in this sandbox.

Swiss MSDN Team Blog: Microsoft Surface – Going below the Surface – This is a great post that shows the unboxing of a Microsoft Surface Computer. Wicked cool! I wish they weren’t so expensive.

PharmacyOneSource: “The Black Hole of Pharmacy – Today Pharmacy OneSource acquired the rights to the solution for “The Pharmacy Black Hole”: MedBoard. MedBoard is a web-based Medication Tracking System that records and tracks preparation and delivery activities of orders throughout a hospital to reduce lost and missing meds that contribute to approximately $400 per bed per year of preventable waste.” – I just posted on this very technology last Friday.

- Paranormal Activity was #1 at the box office last weekend.

- ModernHealthcare.com has released a list of best places to work in healthcare. Alas, my current employer isn’t on the list, but several hospitals are.

- HER Bloggers: “One of the biggest challenges for linking together different health information systems is the inconsistency in referring to a given individual – be that a physician, a patient, or whomever. One system, for example a lab system, may refer to “Patient x” one way (using their own arbitrary internal patient identifier number), while a different system (for example, a hospital) may use a completely different identifier. Between ambulatory EHRs, each one will also likely refer to a given patient with different, internal methods. Cross-linking these systems so that a unified dashboard can be created that displays all the information from all these systems is made much more difficult as a result.” – Exactly! See my post on a similar issue from yesterday here.

- DeepDyve is a search engine for scientific papers where you can “rent” the article for 99 cents per day. Of course they offer frequent flier plans for people who like to read a lot more; $9.99 for 20 articles per month or unlimited for $19.99 a month. It’s a nice service if you don’t have your very own medical librarian at your fingertips.

- The October 2009 issue of Laptop magazine has a review of Twitter applications for your mobile phone. The top Twitter clients were:

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- How about a dual screen netbook? I’m not sure about you, but in my opinion the size of the thing kind of defeats the purpose of a netbook; not to mention that it’s just ugly.

- TEDMED2009 took place in San Diego this week. “TEDMED celebrates conversations that demonstrate the intersection and connections between all things medical and healthcare related: from personal health to public health, devices to design and Hollywood to the hospital.” You can find some third party information on the event at medGadget or by simply searching Twitter for TEDMED.

- The Bay Bridge closed earlier this week following a piece of the cantilever section snapping and falling onto the upper deck. More than 280,000 cars travel across that bridge each day. Wow, I can’t imagine the problems that has caused in the bay area.

- Google rolled out “Google Music Search”. Is there anything these guys can’t do?

- The BlackBerry Storm2 is now available at Verizon Wireless. I haven’t had a chance to play with one yet, but I’m reading good things.

- Check out the new Dell Latitude XT2 XFR rugged convertible tablet PC in the video below. It has a 12.1” LED capacitive multi-touch display and can be had for the low, low price of $3599. The video shows the XT2 XFR taking some serious abuse. Cool

- Here is an interesting interview with Edwin Webb, PharmD on Medscape Today. “Healthcare Reform Has Potential to Improve Pharmacist-Patient Relations: The bill that came out of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee and the bill that is currently under consideration by all 3 committees of the House of Representatives both have provisions that would support the concept of pharmacists’ clinical services in the medical home model, a big element of healthcare reform that has received a lot of attention. One of the Senate bills would initiate a grant program to establish community health teams, including access to pharmacist-delivered medication-management services. Another section of that bill would provide funding for grant programs to implement medication-management services as collaborative interprofessional services in a team-based approach to managing chronic diseases for targeted individuals. Those are 2 provisions that are consistent with the efforts we’ve been making for many years to reform the Medicare Part B payment rules that provide for payment for physician and nurse practitioner services. We would like pharmacist services to be recognized under that provision.”

- “Update on Antibiotics for Infection Control in Cystic Fibrosis”. Cystic Fibrosis (CF) is a devastating genetic disease that typically causes severe chronic respiratory tract infections that often lead to an early death. From a strictly pharmacologic standpoint, CF is an interesting disease because of the affect it has antibiotic kinetics. When I was a pharmacy student at UCSF we had several CF patients on our medicine service, and I can tell you it pulls at your heart strings.

- Annals of Pharmacotherpy (Vol. 43, No. 11, pp. 1781-1786): “A pharmacist-run osteoporosis service significantly improved short-term compliance with guidelines, including appropriate DEXA scan frequency, pharmacotherapy, calcium and vitamin D supplementation, and nonpharmacologic education.” – Pharmacists strike again.

- TechCrunch: “Ever since Twitter announced it is working on a new Lists feature a month ago, users and developers have been awaiting its broad rollout. Over the past few weeks, Twitter has been expanding the number of people in the Lists beta, but now it appears that a full rollout is under way.”- I have access to lists, but really haven’t figured out how to use them. I guess I’m just not tech-savvy enough.

- medGadget: “The modular TransHospital system allows for the creation of a clinical facility from six beds up to just about any size imaginable. Each unit can be setup within four hours by a six man crew and can then function autonomously for 72 hours. Add a source of power and water and setup a supply line, and you’ve got yourself a real hospital during emergency situations.” – Reminds me of the old TV series, M.A.S.H. I loved that show.

- GigaOM: “Microsoft once again is touting its speech-recognition technology, predicting on its site this week that “talking to a computer may soon be as natural as using a mouse.” But while voice is a natural fit for mobile phones and some other platforms, when it comes to traditional computing — using a laptop, desktop or even a netbook — the use-case scenarios for speech recognition are more limited. It will take quite an effort to convince users to talk to their laptops instead of typing on them.”- I disagree, I think there are some practical uses for speech-recognition. Like any new technology it must be modeled into something you want. My thoughts on subject can be found here.

- Check out this video by Bill Koslosky of  the Wireless Doc in which he demonstrates using Google Voice on an HTC Hero smartphone to perform a medical search. It’s really quite impressive.

- The Barnes & Noble Nook e-reader has been getting quite a bit of press lately. It’s a nice looking device and offers 3G, Wi-Fi, 2GB of storage and access to over 1 milliion electronic book. I’m impressed enough with it that I’m going to pre-order one. As long as the Nook doesn’t befall some catastrophic failure I think it will give the Amazon Kindle a run for its money.

- Top search phrases that brought people to my sight this week: jerry fahrni (hey, imagine that), xcelodose, dell xt2 keyboard, jaansun capsule machine, where is tony north of talyst (this is my favorite), d&d surface table, pharmacokinetics iphone, talyst autopack supplies, talyst users group, pyxis parx system.

- Please stop the agony that is the Major League Baseball season. For those of you that don’t know, we’re still playing the World Series and it will be November before it’s over. It’s football season!

Have a great weekend everyone.

- G-Force was #1 at the box office last weekend. Yes it’s true; the movie outperformed Harry Potter by $2 million. Ha! Take that Mr. Wizard. .

- mobihealthnews featured a great article titled “Cisco on wireless health, alert fatigue and apple carts“. Of course I thought the apple carts reference was going to be something about the iPhone, but turns out I was wrong. The reference is from the following statement: “To make any technology initiative successful in healthcare, you need to think of the impact it will have on all of the stakeholders in the system, Sands explained. For doctors, the impact will be on their “apple cart.” The doctor’s life is best described as an apple cart that is full to the top and the last thing they want to do is add on more thing on top, because they are worried it will topple the whole thing over. We have got to be sensitive to that if we are going to implement something in the doctor’s office, Sands said.” That is an interesting way to look at it. I think this metaphor applies to pretty much all healthcare professionals as we’re officially in the do-more-with-less era.

- Here’s a nifty little blog on managing online passwords from a physician who got his Facebook account hacked. I had my hotmail account hacked a few months ago, and I can tell you it sucked. It appears that I suffered no real damage, but only time will tell if that is completely true. So, keep your passwords tuff and unique. If you were to look at some of my passwords today, you might think it was a joke because they are so ridiculously long and complex.

- Looks like Sony is bringing new eReaders to the market; the PRS-300 and PRS-600. They look like updated versions of the current eReaders. I’m a big fan of eReaders and eInk and am looking forward to some “hands-on” with these. They’re about the only eReaders I can physically touch without buying first. There’s a Sony Style store in the big San Jose mall about 3 hours from Fresno. It works out well for me because my daughters love to shop.

- The rumor of a Mac Tablet is still creating waves all over the internet. The nice thing about the speculation surrounding the Mac Tablet is all the cool mockups be posted. Take a look at a couple here and here. Of course the best mockups I’ve ever seen are these. The rumors surrounding the Mac Tablet have it touted as a slate like tablet with an 8-10″ screen designed primarily for multi-meida. I really hope this isn’t true as I’d like to see the device have a full blown Mac operating system, not a watered down version like the iPhone. Until that happens, tablet PCs will remain king in my opinion. That may be more true than ever before with the arrival of Windows 7, which is supposed to be a very “tablet friendly” operating system.

- Engadget is reporting that the infamous CruchPad should arrive sometime in November. Don’t hold your breath as this device is on the verge of being vaporware. If the rumors surrounding the Mac Tablet are true, the CrunchPad may become a vague memory.

- Take a look at “Key Articles and Guidelines for the Prevention of Venous Thromboembolism: Clinical Guidelines” at Medscape Critical Care. Prophylaxis for Venous Thromboembolism is always a lively area of research and discussion.

- Last week I told you about Amazon removing illegally obtained copies of 1984 from Kindles without the user’s permission. Well, it appears someone took it personally as a student’s school notes attached to the ebook were lost when it was removed from the device. The user is suing Amazon.

- GottaBeMobile.com: “Verizon Stores Starting to Use Tablets on Sales Floor – Verizon stores in 3 Indiana towns (Jefferson Point, Kokomo, and Castleton) are piloting the use of Tablet PCs for their sales personnel. Verizon is planning on having Tablet PCs in 120 stores by the end of the year. The picture looks like a Motion Tablet PC of the C5/F5 variety.” – It appears that just about every industry besides pharmacy is using tablets to make their lives easier. You’re killing me smalls.

- Office Online Blog (How Bill Gates uses Office): “Of course, collaborating often means meeting with my colleagues in person or remotely over the Internet via Office LiveMeeting. I always take a lot of notes about ideas to think about or things to follow up on. I try to bring my Tablet PC to meetings as often as possible so that I can use OneNote 2007 to write notes in ink that can later be searched or converted to text. Even if I forget my Tablet, I can scan a document or piece of paper and add that image to OneNote. One of the nice new features in OneNote 2007 is that it automatically recognizes the text in those scanned documents, so that it’s easy to search for them later.” OneNote is a great product for use on a tablet. It’s like having an electronic version of your old school binder where you take notes and paste clippings. Bill also states “If you visit my office, you will probably notice right away that I have three large flat screen displays that sit together and are synchronized so they work like a single very wide display. The large display area enables me to work very efficiently. I keep my Outlook 2007 Inbox open on the screen to the left so I can see new messages as they come in. I usually have the message or document that I’m currently reading or writing in the center screen. The screen on the right is where I have room to open up a browser or look at a document that someone has sent me in e-mail.” That’s pretty cool. I have two 19″ flat screens in my office at work and wish I had a third.

- Thankfully we are only about two weeks away from the NFL preseason and I can barely contain myself. This time of year is pretty much void of any real sports action. C’mon, golf and baseball? I don’t think so. I need to see a collision sport other than NASCAR, and I need to see it soon!