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Category Archives: Books
Daily Links for Monday, November 2, 2009
Books Caught in the Middle: Publishing’s Other Customers Digital Book World / Don Linn The publishers’ author/customers I worry about are those who fall between these two groups. They are the people who write for a living and who bring … Continue reading
Scifi reading list update – Back to the Foundation
As I’ve mentioned several times, I’ve been working my way through the books that have won the Best Novel awards for science fiction and fantasy, namely the Hugo and Nebula awards. Elsewhere on this site is the list of these … Continue reading
Two new books for today
Here are a couple of books that have been released recently that you might want to look at. Protocol Politics: The Globalization of Internet Governance (Information Revolution and Global Politics) Laura DeNardis Protocol Politics examines what’s at stake politically, economically, … Continue reading
Another book read on my Hugo and Nebula award winners list
I just finished reading Forever Peace (Remembering Tomorrow) by Joe Haldeman and checked it off on my list of Hugo and Nebula award winners for novels. I decided a while ago that since I read a lot of science fiction … Continue reading
Kindle curmudgeoning
I was over at Amazon today looking at technical books and thought “these are really expensive, if they are much cheaper in Kindle form I might be able to justify the price of a device.” As I’ve said before, I … Continue reading
Reading update
I just finished reading The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon after finishing A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge last week. Now on to Startide Rising by David Brin. I’m working my way through my list of Hugo … Continue reading
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List of Hugo and Nebula science fiction and fantasy novel award winners
I mentioned some time ago that I was going to stop buying science fiction books in the bookstore that had nice covers and descriptions, and instead try to focus on what others consider the best in the field. I’m still … Continue reading
Cookbooks for Thanksgiving, again
This is primarily a link to an entry I did a year ago with suggestions for cookbooks for Thanksgiving. The three books I mentioned there are still on the top of my list for Thanksgiving as well as other family … Continue reading
Thinking about publishing
Lately I’ve been thinking about doing a writing project, possibly a book. This is not new, as I have this urge on a fairly regular basis. One thing that’s holding me back is that I’ve already been involved in two … Continue reading
Red, Green, Blue
I started reading Kim Stanley Robinson’s Red Mars three times before I really pushed through and finished the first part. And then everything changed. It’s really a compelling scifi book about future colonization of Mars and the issues and problems … Continue reading
In San Francisco
My wife and I flew out to San Francisco last night. I’m speaking at LinuxWorld tomorrow which, coincidentally, is our 25th wedding anniversary. In and around the conference we’re going to do some fun things like attend a Giants game … Continue reading
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Trip planning
As I mentioned in a post this morning, I’m taking a vacation trip next week with my family. Here are a few odds and ends comments regarding getting ready for the trip. The ASUS eee mini laptop I ordered was … Continue reading
Book: Rinascimento Virtuale
Mario Gerosa was kind enough to send me a copy of his new book that was just published called Rinascimento Virtuale (Virtual Renaissance). It’s in Italian, but I know that it’s about virtual worlds, social networking, and related topics. There’s … Continue reading
Random Notes
I haven’t written much here lately, though I seem to have picked up the pace on the del.icio.us links. There are several reasons for this: I’ve been busy. I’ve tried to squeeze in a few vacation days this week since … Continue reading
links for 2008-01-21
‘Daydream Believer’ Songwriter, 68, Dies – New York Times “Stewart, who came to prominence in the 1960s as a member of folk music’s Kingston Trio, died Saturday at a San Diego hospital after suffering a brain aneurism. He was 68.” … Continue reading
Second Life book: “Creating Your World”
I just received a copy of Creating Your World: The Official Guide to Advanced Content Creation for Second Life. Since I did the rather long series on Second Life earlier this year, I’ve been thinking about doing a book on … Continue reading
Quote of the day
I’m now reading The Trouble with Physics by Lee Smolin, which is an analysis of how string theory has not lived up to the expectations of many physicists in the last quarter century, despite its being considered heretical to consider … Continue reading
My open source bookshelf
For quite some time I’ve had a listing of books on another part of this website that lists books that I think should be in any reasonably complete library on open source. I’m now revisiting this list for additions and … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Open Source
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Friday night
Well, it’s Friday night, for me at least. I’m in Beijing and just spent a full day participating in a conference here. I’m tired and going to crash soon, but wanted to mention what my travel has been like this … Continue reading
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From Second Life and Back
I’m on the plane now between Chicago and Tucson, heading for the InformationWeek 500 Conference. Travel has gone very well so far, with no glitches. Evidently the guy sitting behind me on the plane was arrested recently on a Driving-While-Intoxicated … Continue reading
links for 2007-09-02
BOOKS FOR ALL REASONS: Finding a World of WarCraft Leveling Guide “Here are some of the places I found that seem to have a World of WarCraft Leveling Guide for various scenarios or related items, such as WarCraft videos” (tags: … Continue reading
links for 2007-07-31
World of Warcraft Special Edition Atlas: World of Warcraft Addon “Atlas also includes maps of battlegrounds, dungeon locations, flight points, and outdoor raid bosses.” (tags: worldofwarcraft addons wow) The Unofficial World of Warcraft Mods site Site for legal World of … Continue reading
links for 2007-05-29
Mark Evans – All Google, All the Time (Yikes!) “One service I’ve started using again is Blogdigger, a blog search engine created by Greg Gershman.” (tags: google blogging search) Frugal Upstate: Got My New Laptop! “They could have sold me … Continue reading
Kuala Lumpur
I’ve had a very busy few days here in Malaysia, giving talks and meeting up with many of the stars of the local open source and ODF groups. These folks are dedicated and have passion with amazing technical smarts. It’s … Continue reading
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#3. My Second Life: Quick book review
As I mentioned in dispatch #2, I ordered Second Life: The Official Guide. To be honest, I didn’t have high hopes for this because I had done a lot of reading online and thought that this might be a regurgitation … Continue reading
links for 2006-12-27
Open Source: Distros, Books, and Careers Update sweetens Ubuntu-based Linux Mint ‘The project team for Linux Mint, one of the first “customized” Ubuntu distributions, this week released its 2.1 version, featuring a 2.6.17 kernel, the GNOME desktop environment, and an … Continue reading
links for 2006-12-08
The Continuing Open XML Debacle + Some DRM Shebanation: Is Office Open XML A One-Way Standard? Ask Microsoft Must read. I’m stunned, literally. These numbers are amazing. (tags: odf microsoft) PlexNex: Rob Weir on Song “IBM’s Weir has cranked the … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Document Formats, News, Standards
Tagged Adobe, Microsoft, Netherlands, Novell, ODF, OOXML, Science Fiction, SVG
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What I’m reading
A couple of weeks ago I finally finished reading the four book Hyperion/Endymion series by Dan Simmons: Hyperion The Fall of Hyperion Endymion The Rise of Endymion At well over 2000 pages total, this was an undertaking but well worth … Continue reading
links for 2006-12-03
The 10 Best Books of 2006 – New York Times (tags: books) Outlook 2007: Linux and Open Source “News Analysis: Next year will be a big one for Linux, with new platforms and opportunities in the data center.” (tags: linux … Continue reading
Snapshot – October 9, 2006
Here are a few odds and ends that somehow reflect things I’ve been thinking about and doing lately: The Three Current Most Popular Blog Posts “HR news from Massachusetts” Comment on Louis Gutierrez stepping down as CIO of Massachusetts. “Microsoft … Continue reading
Posted in Bob Dylan, Books, Music, Open Source
Tagged Bob Dylan, GPL, Massachusetts, Microsoft, television
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