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Sunday, June 7th, 2009 11:11 pm

ASCII Márquez

The cover of the June 7, 2009, New York Times Book Review showed an old-school ASCII-art image of Gabriel García Márquez. Old school in this case means that the image appears to have been created with a typewriter and not the more forgiving digital format. It may just be a font face generated all digitally but even if it is I like the spray of text letters that create Márquez’s face. I pointed my Maglite flashlight at it, and this may have looked more interesting in reality than in these pictures, but hey, yeah, um … free Tibet!

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Everything on these pages comes straight from my Motorola Android mobile device. In the past I have posted content from a Treo 650 and a Treo 700p. I started doing this in October, 2006. My earliest posted-from-mobile content is here.

Most text content here is typed using a foldable, full-size keyboard that I carry in my pocket. I have limited spell check, no easy access to a dictionary, and limited practical ability to beautify text with HTML or any other ML.

This web site contains grammar and spelling errors! If spelling errors horrify you then you must turn away now. Sometimes I edit or clean up text entries when I am at a desktop computer but for the most part I keep these entries as-is, for to maintain the spirit of funneling text through a mobile device.

This content originally resided at sorabji.com, but I decided to use sorabji.mobi instead. The .mobi top-level-domain was intended to be used for online products and web sites designed for cell phones and mobile devices with smaller screens. I remember the .mobi landscape of the early 2000s and felt it resembled the bewildered and confusing world of .com in the mid 1990s.

Alas, the .mobi top-level-domain was a bit of a bust, with limited practical value. Instead of using sorabji.mobi for content targeted for display on mobile handsets I choose instead to use sorabji.mobi to post content that originates exclusively from cell phones, e-mail, and other mobile devices.

These pictures show a Treo which I formerly placed atop the Think Outside Bluetooth Keyboard. I don't use that keyboard any more, as it never worked well with the Treo 700p.

Pictures from my earlier Treo cameras can be seen here: Treo 600, Treo 650.

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