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First a ‘Garibaldi’ then a green ‘n blacks. After Fury and Singapore Noodles, with toasted, buttered and garlic’d Gail’s. Some new gin and t. Lowered lights, sip of water, trance on the B&O’s, Emily on the phone with Manisha. Adjust seating in the black leather and steel chair to left leg up, right leg jumping to trance.

Up late, strange dreams. Went to Cadogan, made mom and Eileen and me a Stbx coffee in the little SAS glasses. Heated, steamed milk, them for Miah would liked the smell. Drove mom to Henning’s then lunch at Westfield. Crickets and fish taco’s at Wahaca. Try on a suit (nice light brown one, with a vest), buy a shirt (previous was worn down by stubble, or so I am told). Waitrose shop; gin and Japanese whiskey. Drive Eileen to he daughter’s, complete with big blue bag.

Cold coming on again, dring home with the top down, 7°, Led Zep.

Collapse on the sofa for a fantastic nap.

Yesterday was dinner at Cafe Royal. I may apply for a membership there. Fantastic dinner, very friendly and nice. Mom and Dad and Emily and all was well.

Earlier yesterday I get an email from a friend who is also an industry pioneer of the highest caliber saying he wants to pay the cost to complete Liquid | Author for OSX. I am stunned, it’s a amazing. He is amazing – supported my work for so long but now with a real ‘buy-in’. I don’t know, my world is very different now.

Sure, the money could have been raised elsewhere, but with his buy-in it all becomes something else.

Author is named in honour of Doug’s Augment and the citations system feeds right into Ted’s work I think. I cannot wait for rich links/citations, authored in Author to appear in Ted’s views. This is a new chapter, I am so honoured, so happy and so very excited about what the future can bring, about what size dent we can put in the universe.

I’ll have to do another day or so testing and polish for Author iOS and some time to make sure that files can open happily on both platforms, then I can let iOS out in the world and we can start on OS X.

First, nice simple environments to write (not even a single visible interface after I made the header and footer bars in iOS go away after 30 seconds this week – just tap to make them reappear). Rich citations easily addable, then we can move to make citations more useful for the reader and for teachers.

It is just wonderful.

And fade out to “Forge” (John Digweed & Nick Muir vs. Second Hand Satellites) [Iridium Flares Mix]

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A word about Liquid | Author iOS, which as submitted to Apple for review for the App Store yesterday. Author was not designed to be a traditional word processor. There is very little in the way of page layout, you cannot even change fonts. Author is designed to help you convey meaning, not mess with fonts and layout. It attempts to do this with a better reading and writing experience and with the way you can assign Tags. Author was designed for iOS from the ground up. There is hardly anything by the way of visible interfaces. You can even tap and hold on the top and bottom bars to hide them. If you use a bluetooth keyboard your page is entirely your text and nothing else. Much of the interaction is through the iOS pop-up menu when you select text or keyboard shortcuts if you use a bluetooth keyboard. Author let’s you read your own documents like an eBook; you can tap on the sides to advance, you can even tap on words to search and look up references, with results right inside Author. When you swipe to scroll you won’t even have broken lines at the top of the screen since Author works to keep your text looking good and looking good at whatever size you prefer – pinch to scale your text from tiny text for editing to large text for presentation. You can tap on any heading and you get the Table of Contents which you can tap on to move to any section. Pinch to change the levels of headings visible. To assign a heading simply tap on the page to go into Edit Mode, then select the text you want to be a heading and choose Tag/Heading and choose the level you want. This tagging is also how you assign other meaning to your text, such as emphasis and so on. You can of course link your text but you also have the option to assign citations to your text; select text, choose Tag/Citation and here you can add relevant information about your citation. If you use the built-in browser for research and come across a page you want to cite, select the text you want to cite and choose ‘Copy As Citation’. You can now paste the text in your document and the citation dialog will automatically open, with Web Address and Title automatically added. When you Cut in Author, Author remembers. Choose Cuttings from the pop-up menu to see a list of all the text you have cut but not pasted. When you are done working you can either copy your text to another application or do the low-priced in-app upgrade to Share your documents, as PDF or RTF, complete with a Bibliography for your citations. Anyway, just a few ‘tasting notes’ :-)

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Today was grey, maybe dark brown. Tough. But progress is being made. Liquid | Author iOS finally has a good release and Liquid | Info can now post to WordPress, as I am doing now :-)

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