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by Paul Jackson
ISBN 978-1-84584-148-5
$14.95 US
www.veloce.co.uk
Amazon.com
review by Rich Helms
rich@RichHelms.com
Naming a car “smart“ is a bold move invoking the question “What’s so smart about it?“
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Each morning I hold down the Ctrl key and click on each comic to get my daily fix of comics. When the local paper started doing late delivery, I cancelled it and discovered most of my favorite comics were on the web.
Sun means it is in the Saturday paper I get.
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By Dorothea Helms
There are several ways to gauge whether a marriage is on solid ground. One is to do a long car trip together and see how it goes. My husband and I put our 35-year marriage to the test in May, except we added an extra challenge. We drove 3,800 km in total on our holidays – in his Smart Car!
When Rich asked me a few months ago whether I’d like to attend a microcar conference festival in Madison, Georgia with him in May, he was shocked when I said yes. He had already taken several long trips with the Smart – even as far as Arkansas – and I was always too busy to go. I’d ridden in the Smart many times, but never for long distances. I figured with months to plan, I could take a few days away from my freelance writing businesses. Plus, we were able to combine the car event with visits to family along the way.
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There is no rational reason to buy a convertible, but there are many emotional ones. My favorite reason is driving down a country road on a summer day, feeling the warmth of the sun on my arms and listening to classic rock on the radio.
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By Rich Helms
I didn’t realize how my driving would change when my editor called me on Feb 10, 2004 and said, “Mercedes just announced the Smart car.“ An email to the local dealer and a fax the next day, and I had a Smart ForTwo cabrio on order. In October, I got to drive one for the first time and select the features I wanted. Then on Jan 2005, almost 11 months later, I took delivery of my green-on-green Smart cabrio. continue reading »
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When I was at IBM Canada R&D, I wrote several technical papers that now appear on the web.
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The International Standard Book Number (ISBN) is the serial number of your book. It is unique through the world. Obtaining an ISBN in Canada is fairly easy. Realize as self-published, you are the publisher.
For Canadian writers the process of obtaining an ISBN is online and free from the Canadian ISBN Agency.
www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/isn/041011-1030-e.html
Realize your are the publisher in a self-published book. Enter yourself as the publisher. This sets up a set of ISBN numbers with each only differing by the last numbers
Once you get your ISBN, go to www.mithril.com.au/barcode.htm and enter the number without the dashes. Select “large barcode“ and click on the “Generate Barcode“ button. Copy and paste the barcode into an image editor such as Photoshop. Save the image as a .tif and import it into your document.
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Another popular free image editor is GIMP.
GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages.
GIMP was originally written by two students at Berkeley and released in Jan 1996. Fromi its humble beginnings, it is grown into a large sophisticated package with many plugins and documentation. The GIMP site includes levels of documentation from beginner to advanced. There are also books available on GIMP.
GIMP is not a trivial package to learn but is very powerful.
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Each bucket Dwight dumps into the truck holds 12 tons of granite.
I wanted to drive a big truck, so I drove a tractor-trailer. Once I had tasted the big rigs, I wanted bigger. I rode in an 18-ton tug while towing a 100-ton airplane – better, but I couldn’t drive it. How about driving a 70-ton mining dump truck with a gross loaded weight of 250,000 pounds? ALL RIGHT!
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In my quest to experience unusual vehicles, I spent a day with Air Canada. No, not in a jet, but towing a Boeing 767 around the airport. Air Canada has a total worldwide fleet of 335 aircraft; yet the company has 1,400 motorized vehicles at Toronto Lester B Pearson International Airport alone. Nine of those motorized vehicles are Douglas-Kalmar TBL-280 Tugmasters.
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