Not so, unfortunately. When I did, the batter icon on my Kindle started showing the "charge" lightning bot, but I realized later it just kept on losing juice. Eventually it died and had trouble restarting, until I charged it with the right plug again.

It might be the difference in power (the iPhone adapter outputs 5V/1A, the Kindle 4.9V/.85A).

Kind of annoying for longer, computer-less trips (will have to bring 2 cables, and 2 adapters), although the Kindle's battery seems to last quite long, especially if you don't use the wireless.

I am very excited about this device and its associated services, but the price conditions outside of the US are not advantageous. Here are some observations after using the device a little bit -- and my take on the secret behind the success of the iTunes Music Store.

I would like to thank New York for the amazing atmosphere along the route, and around the event. The crowd gives support that I honestly did not believe in, before experiencing it for myself. (Note: my use of the term "amazing" is not, in this case, an American exaggeration, I really really mean it.)

Also, @holbuc and the guys at The Plant fixed many problems on the Onitsuka Tiger site today. Did you check out the limited-edition 60 years anniversary book yet?

Bit nervous about flying tomorrow, should go to bed now!...

If you're reading this via the Feedburner-served RSS feed, you're supposed to see text ads under each post, and if you're on the site itself you should have a square box which may be text or banners in the right-hand column (it broke my search box, BTW, despite the fact that both are unmodified Javascript bits from Google).

My own browser is Firefox with the Adblock extension, so I don't see them myself... I fired up Chrome and IE to check them out, and boy, isn't it ugly and distracting?

Also, I'm pretty disappointed with the text matching. Seeing my company's ad served on my own private site is a mild irony in itself. They're probably served here because we're currently running a campaign in Holland, and I'm using the brand name several times in my posts. However, I do wonder why we're purchasing impressions for our most-popular search term and one for which we're the first organic result. Must have a chat with our media agency about this, I guess I'm missing a part of the picture.

Aside from the ASICS ads, I'm seeing really weird stuff (this is after the "TV's incredible" post):

In the RSS feed, under my review of the Bazaarvoice summit, an interesting surprise: an English ad inviting me to "Meet Local Gay Black Men Near You." It follows another English-language ad for a video chat app, a Dutch professional web event (that's quite relevant, actually) and something for Center Parks promotion vouchers, also in Dutch.

Might the ads deter you from coming back, or from reading my feed? Not that I necessarily have that much traffic in the first place, but I wonder if they might drive people away from the site. Hit the comments!

The third episode aired on 17 March 1980. It pitches the minister against his department in a battle to establish (or not) safeguards preventing unauthorized access by officials to a Government database of private information about her majesty's subjects. I was appalled to find it echo my exchange with bv about the staggering public lies on "security" databases: it's not even a modern issue. (More on this at Privacy International.)

Second coincidence: yesterday, I downloaded the iPhone application Uitzending Gemist, which allows you to watch the past 8 days of Dutch public TV. I don't have TV and don't miss it, but I thought I'd check it out.

The first show I see on the screen when testing it an hour ago? Sorry Minister, a local, contemporary remake.

Oh yes--and the app is awesome, by the way!

My point about "dimensions" is that they're specific to each body of information.

For me, in a collection of elements, a dimension is a characteristic of the elements that helps the user navigate the collection. For example, in a magazine (a collection of articles), the article's author is a dimension (I can navigate through all articles by a certain author) but the title isn't ("all articles with title X" makes no navigational sense).

Forgive the text-heavy post, but I think the content is worth it, so please bear with me while I tell you about Ze Frank and Ian Jindal.