2) I’ve noticed the word “fiona” here and there on the Amazon website, mostly (as far as I can remember) as a directory name.<\/p>\n
But then, when I was randomly reading the Wikipedia entry<\/a> for The Diamond Age, I saw this:<\/p>\n During the early stages of its development, the\u00a0Amazon Kindle\u00a0e-reader\u00a0was codenamed “Fiona”, as a deliberate reference to the Illustrated Primer and Fiona Hackworth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n So, the Kindle was deliberately the first step toward the Primer?<\/p>\n Very cool indeed.<\/p>\n So, here’s today’s awesome fact (it comes in two parts): 1) I am a big fan of the novel The Diamond Age. 2) I’ve noticed the word “fiona” here and there on the Amazon website, mostly (as far as I can remember) as a directory name. But then, when I was randomly reading the Wikipedia […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","category-tech-topics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5582"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5587,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5582\/revisions\/5587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
In other, completely unrelated awesome news<\/a>, I may just need to go see Les Miserables<\/em> again. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
In other, also unrelated, news, I’m starting to investigate the Fast & Furious movies. More to come about that, but so far so good.<\/p>\n![\"image_pdf\"](\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/pdf.png\" "\\"View")
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