Amazon brings 400 magazines and newspapers to Kindle Fire

The Kindle Fire has been in the news a lot lately, and the device hasn't even shipped, yet. In addition to the Android games and apps that are set to come to the Kindle Fire, and the update to their App Store, Amazon has announced that 400 newspaper and magazine titles will be made available for the Kindle Fire. Kindle Fire customers who subscribe before March 1, 2012 will also receive an exclusive free three-month trial of 17 Condé Nast magazines, including Vanity Fair, GQ, WIRED and Glamour. Kindle Fire Newsstand customers will have access to publications from Conde Nast, Meredith and Hearst in full color. Built-in video and audio are also available for some publications like Garden, Allure and Self.

Kindle Fire offers more than 18 million movies, TV shows, songs, books, magazines, apps and games, as well as free storage in the Amazon Cloud and Whispersync for books and movies. Customers of the Kindle Fire also receive a month's free membership to Amazon Prime, which not only gives them access to Prime Instant Video, which has over 13,000 movies and TV shows with unlimited streaming, but also gives them access to the Kindle Owners Lending Library. Through the library, Kindle owners who are also Amazon Prime members, can borrow an unlimited number of books. The Kindle Fire is available for pre-order now and will ship on the 15th of November, 2011.

The anti-Facebook picture

Me and Toniann were sitting on the porch watching the storm roll in. I was trying to explain to her how a blog works. We decided to take some Facebook pictures with the standard poses, but after awhile we got bored and took an anti-Facebook picture.

Lady Saw - Wife A Wife

I Think I'm In Love Again

I used to think I was incapable of falling in love again. Even when I met my girlfriend I fell for her right away, but I kept my heart guarded. I'm not sure when I finally let my guard down, but I'm glad I did. Love gives your life purpose and hope. Yeah, there's a chance things may not work out, but if I focus on that then I'm probably not gonna like the results.

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The Refugee

I took a cab to work this morning because I wasn't feeling too well and I was running hella late..while talking to the guy, I find out that he was working for the UN's refugee program during a war and that he was unable to return to his ciuntry. When he first left, they killed members of his family and burned his house and took his vehicles. I asked himwhenthis war occurred and to my surprise he let me know that the war had not completely ended. I was shocked because I had never heard of this and I like pride myself as a person who pays attention to what's going on in the world. Well,this guy who once worked to help refugees is now a refugee himself. I couldn't imagine not being able to go home, but I suppose if my life is in danger I could get used to anything.

Jamaican Evening News - Tropical Storm Nicole Aftermath

The latest news from the storm in Jamaica.








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After the Storm

This morning I get woken up by the storm from the last day on Earth. The sound of rain and hail blasting my window caused me to rise prematurely from my slumber. I tried to go back to sleep but it was to no avail. I realized that the electricity wasn't on so I immediately jumped out of bed to take a shower. The last place I want to be when the power is out is home. I don't have any windows in my bathroom so I had to use the flashlights to light up the bathroom. The water pressure was low, but it was somewhat warm, so I wasn't complaining. I got dressed and headed for the elevator. I didn't take too many steps before I realized that the elevator was not going to work because the power was out. Luckily the lights in the stairwell were on. I'm assuming they were running on a generator.

When I get to the bus stop I see that traffic is at a standstill. After waiting for what seems like forever, I decide to start walking. Where I was going? I wasn't sure, I figured anything was better than waiting for a bus that probably never was going to show up.

As I'm walking down the street from my complex, I see the full devastation of the storm. Branches were down everywhere. A bunch of trees didn't survive and as they fell to their doom, they took out power lines with them. I came across on such incident. The light pole was cracked and power lines lined the ground. I didn't think they were live but I didn't want to take the chance, so I just crossed the street. When I got to the bottom of the street, a mile from my complex, I saw that the street was blocked off by flares and a dump truck. As I turned the corner I realized why...The river near the dam had overflowed it's banks and water flooded the road.

I kept on walking, I had no choice because there where no buses coming on the closed road. As I turned the bend I was shocked to see a huge tree lying in the middle of the road. There was a service vehicle standing near the tree and the driver looked just as dumbfounded as I was. The tree brought down some power lines with it, I was glad to be on the other side of the road...I walked passed that and walked and walked and walked. I end up walking past the beltway and then I saw a bus going up the street. I figured I was in a part of town where the buses were running so I stopped at the next bus stop until a bus finally showed up. Man, my feet were killing me and this bus was a godsend. The trains were delayed because of some trees on the tracks and one of the stations were flooded, but I got into the city without incident.

Another batch of strong showers is supposed be coming through shortly, I hope the commute home isn't as bad as the commute in.