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An almost-blog post

A few months ago, Steve suggested I write a paper for a particular conference. He even gave me a topic. Brat that I am, I thought about for a few minutes and then flat out said no to that topic but thought of another one suitable for the conference. I decided to write on the …

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More on Paper vs. Screen: The Creative Process

While sitting in a meeting, it struck me that, though my laptop sips 8W while in use and it is usually better for me to read documents on the screen since I rarely spend more than a few minutes reading/re-reading consuming a page, on an almost daily basis, I spend more than an hour staring at a page making little …

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iPad? How bad?

Jorge Aranda tells me his brother is considering one of those newfangled iPads to reduce his environmental footprint… So will buying an iPad to replace print materials reduce carbon emissions or just result in more …

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To Print or Not to Print?

During the summer, I was musing on Vannevar Bush’s ideas presented in his paper As We May Think. Having the attention span of a… where was I? Oh, yes. So my mind wandered to thinking about by how much our carbon footprint could be reduced by switching to a paperless …

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