My publisher, Torquere Press, is marking its fifth anniversary in September. To celebrate they’re having all sorts of specials and games, including a scavenger hunt.

Find the Scavenger Hunt button somewhere on JennaJones.com, collect buttons from the other participating authors, and you could win a Kindle E-book reader loaded with Torquere Press books.

At the end of September one winner will be randomly selected out all of the correct contestants.

Winners must be 18 or over. Please see the scavenger hunt central page for rules and a list of participating authors.

I love shiny technology. I blame this entirely on my father, who loved coming home with new toys: we had a PC in 1982, for instance, back when floppy disks were actually floppy and the idea of a computer monitor with other colors than black and green was like something out of science fiction.

In my never-ending quest for new pretties, I bought myself an Asus Eee Surf this week. The Eee is a microcomputer: it’s about the size of a mass market paperback book and weighs two pounds, most of which is the battery. This particular model has only 2 GB of hard drive space but that’s easily expanded upon with an SD card or flash drive. It has a Linux operating system, and some of the newer models come with Windows XP. I opted not to go with Windows because files are easily compatible using OpenOffice software, which runs equally smoothly in Windows and Linux. It comes preloaded with OpenOffice, a PDF reader, Firefox, Skype, and a lot of other programs geared towards beginners and young students.

I have named it Kaylee. (Yes, after a character from ‘Firefly.’ I have mentioned the bit where I’m an enormous geek, haven’t I?) I am of the school of thought that you should name everything you spend a lot of time with, so I have named all my computers, my iPod, and my car. (Blueberry, for the curious.)

Pictures below the jump.
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