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Note On Kindle Upgrades

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Kindle Software Update Version 2.3

We roll wireless software updates out in batches to groups of users to make sure everything goes smoothly. If your Kindle has not yet received the most recent software update, rest assured that you’ll receive it wirelessly in the next few weeks.

Not knowing this, I sat around trying to figure out why the heck PDFs were not showing up on my Kindle.

At one point, I did go into settings to find that “Update My Kindle” option to be greyed out. So I assumed it was up to spec, and starting messing around elsewhere.

Turns out, the magic pdf happiness starts with 2.3. And I only had 2.2.

It wasn’t 100% clear, and so this is why I post this here. Go to the update page on your computer, download the update file on your computer, place it on the root folder, and then click on “Update My Kindle”.

It would make sense for the 10.4 MB update to be available without the help of a computer by clicking “Update My Kindle” whenever an update was available, but I wonder if this is disabled because of needing to pay for the 3G bandwidth. It’s a bit annoying, but it’s not like there are point releases happening all that frequently.

Now back to saving trees, one “book” at a time.

This Past Weekend

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Ugh, it happened again. I keep over-writing. Keeping it short.

Good thing I have Twitter and all the past tweets of this weekend, because I don’t quite fully remember what happened this past weekend. Being up for at least 36 hours is never a good thing, although, somehow, I found the strength to keep going. (Her name is Caffeine. Our relationship was complicated, and now, it’s about to get broken.)

This past weekend was weird. I was up for at least 36 hours, doing such tasks like:

  • Drinking wayyy too much caffeine.
  • 44 oz MD + 32 oz Coke + Guru + Brain Toniq. Yeah, wired.
  • Scanning Bills and Receipts for preparations for the 1040′s. Hooray for Yep.
  • Works awesome with my scanner since Canon CanoScan LiDE25 software is a piece of crap: Awesome blog post on circumventing the idiocy.
  • Finding out that my MacBook Pro doesn’t like the 4 GB update. Should have read this, and all the Apple Support Forum stuff first.
  • I believe I got to crash #7 until I realized that it was the RAM.
  • To tell you the truth, I don’t think it’s the load on the processor. I’ve had mine crash when I had just Skype open. There’s something really wrong in the firmware or something.
  • Although, I did crash once after I replaced my old ones back in. It hasn’t since Sunday, so I guess this is a good thing.
  • Installed Windows
  • Kinda annoyed at the Samsung SC-MX20 issue with not being able to properly flag 16:9 videos.
  • This took the most time on Sunday. If I can get this done, I vow to make a donationware product through HanMeta for the other SC-MX20 users to enjoy (on the Mac… there seems to be a possible solution for PC users, but I can’t cling onto that). But that’s… we’ll see. So… much… hacking…
  • Learning that caffeine doesn’t actually help indigestion.

But the whole point of this post is not to talk about what I did this weekend, but what I realized I had to do. And I know, it was January, 11th… let’s keep that out of here as we talk about world domination plans.

I finally continued reading Accidental Empires by Robert X. Cringely. What came next was not caused by what I actually read, but what I took to heart while reading it. I don’t even remember what it was about… something to do with Bill Gates.

The realization was to be even more ruthless with my time. Even more so than I am. My ways of overthinking needs to end. A testament to this new way of life was how I went about writing this post. I just kept whittling it down and down until this post happened.

It must be because of prepping for a trip to Seattle this weekend, but I feel the need to accomplish something before then. Today has been a throwaway day because… I’m still recovering from the mess of this weekend.

But seriously, I need to blog more short posts. Make more things into multi-part blot posts, or something.