You know what I mean, ‘How are you?’ - ‘Do sit down.’- ‘What nice weather we are having!’ What does it matter? People talk far too much. A lot of the things which you and Jenny say, even, seem to me to be needless: strange noises: empty. "All my gains are slipping away, with the people round me. The following passage which describes Lancelot transitioning back into polite society after being away at war resonated: However, I thoroughly enjoyed, "The Ill-Made Knight" for it's realistic view of the life and relationships of the Knights, especially between Lancelot and Guenever, also known as Jenny. Sometimes, there was a bit too much reality and I found the cruelty in "The Witch in the Wood" hard to listen to and necessarily skipped forward a bit. The legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table seem to usually be romanticized, however, T.H White's trilogy is steeped in realism.
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Like standards in manufacturing for product quality, "data certification" will become a critical standard in the next three years for ensuring that vendors, customers and suppliers who acquire and/or share third-party data can measure the quality of that data before it's purchased or used. Thomas Chesbrough, executive vice president of Thazar, a Skywire Software company, Frisco, Texas Business intelligence will be more focused on vertical industries and feature more predictive modeling instead of ad hoc queries. Monthly and even daily reports won't be good enough. Within three years, users will begin demanding near-real-time analysis relating to their business - in the same fashion as they monitor stock quotes online today. Ramana Rao, founder and chief technology officer, Inxight Software Inc., Sunnyvale, Calif. And products that have visualization as one of their top three features will earn $1 billion per year. In five years, 100 million people will be using an information-visualization tool on a near-daily basis. Our call for predictions about the future of business intelligence yielded a bountiful crop. It resulted in there being dashes in the middle of words that don't need them. It's almost like the hyphens were added when the book was in a different page layout, and then the page layout changed (maybe the margins or the font size or font type?). Nicole Alderman wrote:I think Cris might be talking about how, in Book 1, there's hyphens in the middle of lines, rather than bridging one line to the next. Maybe if enough people buy her books (*hint* *hint* all you permies!), she might be able to do a second printing with larger font But, I figure I can read the books aloud to the rest of my family when the kids are a bit older. The font size was too small for my husband to read, which bummed me out a little. (Just so you know, Cris, the rest of the books in the series don't have this problem that I can recall-only Legacy). It's the first book published by an author-one cannot expect perfection! But, anyway, once I figured out what was going on, and that the hyphens weren't there for purposeful reasons, but rather accidental, they ceased to distract me. I think Cris might be talking about how, in Book 1, there's hyphens in the middle of lines, rather than bridging one line to the next. |