Stop Frame

Life with a tablet continues to be a back and forth between "I really like this thing" and "I can't believe they didn't do [fill in the blank]!" For instance, I never thought I'd miss the TAB key. I got used to simply formatting a paragraph indent with Word. But while you can do that with Pages for iPad, you can't for any of the plain text editors I've seen (mostly IA Writer and Daedalus). Now, when I work with Q10 on a Win7 machine, it's not an issue since it automatically double-spaces paragraphs; neither IA Writer not Daedalus do that. The result is this string of text with invisible paragraph breaks. Unless you press TAB and manually indent the first line of a paragraph. Which you can't do with the software keyboard built into the iPad. For that simple little feature, you need an external keyboard. Silly, just silly. Other writing frustrations are the lack of keyboard shortcuts for basic formatting. So I tried Pages, which does allow ...

Reactions often speak louder than actions, and no where is this more evident than in the reaction to Chick-fil-A's owners actually saying they believe what they believe. I'm not talking about gay rights groups stating their outrage (though the false equation that says "anti-same sex marriage = anti-gay" is getting boring), nor am I talking about planned boycotts (which are silly) and protests (which will be intentionally silly). No, I'm talking of the mayors of major US cities deciding that the power of government can be welded to tell citizens to sit down and shut up. That these, er, gentlemen consider themselves liberals is just insulting. That civil liberty groups aren't outraged is sad. If you agree with these mayors it's probably because you agree with what they're saying, but please try and look beyond that. If you grant these people the power to actually do what they're saying, you are granting government that power. One day, there will ...