I’m generally not a big fan of sci-fi books, but my friend Allen suggested a while back that I check out Frank Herbert’s Dune. Since I consider Allen to be someone who knows me fairly well and of good taste, I ordered it from Amazon and gave it a read. I found that I enjoyed […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As I wrote here a few months ago (1, 2), I picked up a copy of Mona Lisa Overdrive for some light reading while I was in California. I finished the book in a few days and was reasonably entertained. I still have yet to read Count Zero. A while back, I’d read Pattern Recognition […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Although my current reading selection is listed as Swann’s Way, in truth I haven’t had much time to spend on “serious reading” so I haven’t picked that book up in ages. I do still read however. I stopped by Barnes and Noble in California last night and picked up Mona Lisa Overdrive. I’ve just read […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I finally got around to updating my current reading selection. Unfortunately I’m really busy these days and don’t have time to do as much reading as I’d like. I’ve had a copy of Swann’s Way on my shelf for a while. I’m not sure that Proust is the best “light reading” but since I’ve been […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My web design skills have atrophied over the years, and the technology has passed me by. My main career path is in UNIX infrastructure, so I stay pretty far removed from anything that actually involves web design. Unfortunately there are a lot more freelance jobs for web developers than for infrastructure automation perl coders, so […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I finally finished Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything. It took me a while to complete, as I have also been reading The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More and Founders at Work: Stories of Startups’ Early Days in parallel. All three books are reccomended. I’m still reading The […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The ever-helpful Amazon suggestion engine pointed me to Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything which I purchased and have been reading the past few days. It’s funny because not only do I totally agree with the premise of the book, it’s actually a subject I was thinking of writing a book on myself. Apparently they […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I finally finished the Oracle/Larry Ellison book Softwar the other day. I liked it more than I expected to. It was less sychophantic than I had originally feared. While the author is clearly sympathetic to Ellison, he does have some fairly balanced critiques of various decisions made by Ellison and Oracle throughout the book. And […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My next reading selection is Softwar: An Intimate Portrait of Larry Ellison and Oracle. So far, so good. I’m not that far into it so we’ll see. It’s a portrait of Larry Ellison and Oracle’s move into network centric computing and integrated applications suites. The topic interests me, but the book is pushing my buttons […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m getting towards the end of Piloting Palm: The Inside Story of Palm, Handspring and the Birth of the Billion Dollar Handheld Industry. I wrote about this book the other day when I started reading it, but now I’m coming towards the end so I suppose I should share my impressions. There’s a contrast in […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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