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How to read Amazon Kindle books on Windows XP, Vista and 7

24/8/2012

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Reading Amazon kindle books on Windows XP, Vista and 7 is easy peasy. Log into your Amazon account and download the software: Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk.

This is essentially the "app" for Windows.

When you buy kindle books off the Amazon website, you can have them wirelessly delivered to this or any other device that you own. 

If you download a book to one device it will be in the Archives on the other devices so you can simply reload it to an alternative gadget at no additional cost. Happy days.

This is how you can read kindle books on iPhone, iPad or Mac.

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How to read Amazon Kindle books on iPhone, iPad, Macs and Androids

24/8/2012

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You don't need to own a kindle tablet in order to read kindle books! Here is how you can read kindle books on any apple device:

1. Go to the app store 
2. Search "kindle" and you can download the kindle app
3. The app allows you to read any kindle books that you've bought on the Amazon store

In the early days, you could buy the books directly through the app but as usual Apple got greedy and wanted a cut of book sales so nowadays you have to buy the books directly from the Amazon website. No worries, you can still do that using your phone.

The best bit is that you can have the Amazon kindle app on multiple platforms. I have it on three iThings. When I open any book on one gadget or the other it knows the last point to which the book was opened on another device and asks if I want to go there. Neat, huh?

When you buy kindle books off the Amazon website, you can have them wirelessly delivered to this or any other device that you own. 

If you download a book to one device it will be in the Archives on the other devices so you can simply reload it to an alternative gadget at no additional cost. Happy days.

This is how you can read kindle books on Windows XP, Vista or 7.

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And Crocodiles Are Hungry At Night

17/8/2012

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I had no idea that dramatic arts in Malawi had reached this quality.

This play was astoundingly awesome. It was extremely well acted, it had great sound effects and they dealt with the tough subject matter in a humorous fashion. 

If you ever have the opportunity to see this production, grab it with both hands!


Description of play from Africa Centre website:

Malawi in the 1980s was a dangerous place. People disappeared. Even President Banda’s cabinet were not safe. Banda ordered his Young Pioneers to act against anyone who opposed the president.

And Crocodiles Are Hungry At Night is an adaptation of award-winning poet Jack Mapanje’s prison memoir of the same name. In 1987, Jack Mapanje, then a little-known academic, linguist and poet, was imprisoned without charge at Mikuyu prison in Malawi. Despite an international outcry led by Amnesty International and supported by many writers and artists including Wole Soyinka, Harold Pinter and Ronald Harwood, he remained there for 3 years, 7 months, 16 days and more than 12 hours. He was never told why. This is his story. It is a story bursting with hope and humour, and the extraordinary people who survived President Hastings Kamuzu Banda’s attempts to silence his opponents. Living with the threat of death by a ‘car accident’ or being thrown into the crocodile-infested Shire River, Jack Mapanje and his fellow prisoners of conscience survived the dreadful conditions with a spirit of optimism and humanity, which is both uplifting and extraordinary.

Everything in this play is true.
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And Crocodiles Are Hungry At Night the prison memoir was published last year by Ayebia Clarke publishing, and launched at an event hosted by Amnesty International. The book has created a lot of interest both in Malawi and the UK; Jack Mapanje was recently interviewed alongside Nadine Gordimer on BBC Radio 4’s Start the Week, and the play has been booked for the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust’s poetry festival in July.

The play runs for 105 minutes, and plays without an interval.


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The Uffizi (The Offices), Florence, Italy

9/8/2012

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As one of the main attractions in Florence this is a very busy museum. We were fortunate enough to get a booking through our hotel. The building housed magistrate offices from the late 1500s. It was opened as a public museum in 1765.

The Uffizi costs Eur15 (like Gallerie dell'Accademia) and three hours is about the right amount of time to see everything. There is a lot more to see here.

Broadly speaking, you will see: Religious art, sculptures and non-religious art. Having just seen religious art at Accademia, I found the non-religious section more interesting.

Navigation is very easy as most of the art is set along three main corridors with side rooms followed by an apparently new area with all the non-religious art.

I regret not getting a guide because I could overhear a guide telling lost of interesting stories. For instance, I didn't know that Leonardo da Vinci was actually a scientist and only did 40 paintings. Of those 40 we only hold 20 today. 

I tried to tag along with the group that had the guide but it was very large and hearing was tough around the fringes. It obviously would have been ultra strange for me to force my way to the front!
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Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence, Italy

9/8/2012

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Copy of the "David". Situated in the garden at Galleria dell'Academia
The last time I came to Italy, 2006, my trip was documented in a little travel book. This time, I decided to get it down on my blog because a) I am more likely to read it again and b) I forgot my travel book at home. This is day 3 and I've started forgetting stuff from day one so I think it's an appropriate time to start.

Galleria dell'Accademia is smaller than I anticipated which is good because you are more likely to see all the rooms in a little more depth before you feel you've had enough.

It took 2.5 hours to get through all the art. It's 100% Christian art with the focal point being Michaelangelo's "David". This statue was done from a piece of marble that two other sculptors had rejected but that Michaelangelo was still able to work with - a fact I found rather interesting as it highlights the skill of the man.

Some of the art dated as far back as the 1300s.

My personal favourite was a room full of old statues. I have a slight preference for sculptures and 3D art form over paintings.

Fact of note: in the old days restoration of art pieces sometimes involved acids like hydrogen peroxide. This meant that although the colours were bright once restored, the art itself began to deteriorate rather quickly.

It costs Eur15 and takes 2 to 2.5 hours to see the full collection. The audio guide isn't worth it (Eur6 for 1 and Eur10 for a shared one). A guided tour might be interesting because there are probably many back stories to the art pieces. Book in advance because the queue is massive.
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Brancacci Chapel,  Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence, Italy

8/8/2012

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Frescoes on Brancacci chapel
We didn't go into the church but went to the chapel to see the famous frescoes by Masaccio and Masolino. The audio guide is presented on a tablet so that the narrator can zoom into the sections that are being described. 

I believe this is the first time that I've seen this done before. It's totally awesome because the frescoes are up high and you wouldn't get to see the level of detail present on the tablet. 

Entrance fee is Eur6. In addition to the chapel you get to see the gardens and they had a couple of rooms with a few art pieces. The chapel is the main attraction. One hour is about the right amount of time for this attraction.
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La Specola, Museum of Zoology & Natural History, Florence

8/8/2012

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Rated 4.5 out of 5 on trip advisor, this is one place that is definitely worth visiting: there are many different things to see. One of the signs suggested there are over 1,400 items in the collection.

Each room you go to has a theme. From memory, there was: 
  • A room full of: butterflies, bees, wasps and other small flying creatures
  • Crabs and other crustaceans
  • I was shocked to find several rooms full of large African and Asian mammals: lions, tigers, hyenas, leopards, rhino, foxes, deer in all their various forms
  • Birds – hundreds and hundreds of them
  • Fish – again, hundreds upon hundreds of them
  • Sea urchins of all forms including the jaw of a great white shark. 
I didn't realise that great white sharks have teeth that grow in layers - so behind the first set of teeth, there's another set, behind that there's another set and so on. Apparently, according to my brother in law, it is because their teeth break easily so they have continuous growth and replacement.

I must admit that my favourite time to go to a museum is when I have an audio guide or someone explaining what I am looking at. I am far too lazy to read all the little descriptions!

Although I liked the stuffed animals I think it is a great waste to kill the earth’s finite stock of mammals for the mere purpose of satisfying people’s intellectual curiosity. I would much rather look at a collection of fake man-made pieces depicting what the animals look like. What’s even more soul destroying is that this is just one collection, there might be hundreds like it across the globe. That said, the museum boasts having the largest collection.

My favourite part of the exhibition was the wax works of the human body from the 1700s and the 1800s. It was a lesson in anatomy and physiology. One of the rooms showed the different stages of embryonic growth (albeit all showing an embryo as though it looks like a baby from the get go); this continued with wax works showing different stages of pregnancy and labour.

If you had to choose between a museum and this collection, I say go to this, 100%. Entrance EUR6.
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Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence, Italy

7/8/2012

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Set on three levels, this museum took us about 1.5 - 2 hours to get through. In 37 degree (celsius) heat it was challenging to keep walking.

I sat down and fell asleep! I was very lethargic.

I was only there three days ago but I've mostly forgotten what I saw - I blame the heat.

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Giardino dei Simplici, Botanical Garden, Florence, Italy

7/8/2012

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Day 1 in Florence, blistering heat: it must have been close to forty degrees celsius.

The botanical gardens are worth a visit for their depiction of different species of dinosaur but in August many of the flowers and other vegetation have withered. 

Upon our visit, we found a collection of different types of chilli being cultivated.

The entrance fee entitles one to view the garden's collection of fossils which cover many different epochs. 

The entrance to the fossil exhibition is a five minute walk round the corner so if you're unaware of its existence you are likely to miss it out altogether.

The fossils cover just one large room so you can walk through the entire collection within a half hour. 

At EUR10, I think the entrance cost is too steep.
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Life is...

6/8/2012

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A continuum of feelings: happy, sad, anxious, excited, elated, tired, hungry, thirsty, stressed, thrilled, annoyed, hurt, angry...

I wish for more of the positive but, you know what? Negative emotions make the positive all the more delightful.



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