Posted in Books on Sep 10th, 2002
I have on my desk the latest copy of Communication Arts and the book, Data Analysis with Microsoft Excel. I am far more interested in the data analysis book than the pretty picture book (I should mention I do graphic design professionally). What the hell is wrong with me?
By the way – Frequency Tables [...]
Posted in Books on Sep 6th, 2002
I finished Robertson Davies’ The Rebel Angels. If I can get a hold of some of the ideas that are flitting around my head with respect to it, I’ll try to crank out a review sometime this weekend. The short version – I like the thoughts it made me think. I didn’t so much like [...]
Posted in Books on Sep 2nd, 2002
All Consuming seems like a more powerful, feature packed version of a BookWatch kind of thing. I haven’t even gotten around to implementing blogrolling yet, but I figure I’ll just keep saving these things until I get motivated.
Posted in Books on Aug 25th, 2002
Book Review repository is one of those sites I stumbled across, but decided not to blog. You know the kind right? Well, I went searching for it again today, and almost didn’t find it. Hah! I won’t make that mistake again. And while I’m at it, how about adding an anchor/memory point for Geek Hotels [...]
Posted in Books on Aug 25th, 2002
I finally got around to reading American Gods by Neil Gaiman. It’s a good book with an interesting premise. There are plenty of reviews posted around the web, so I’ll save myself the trouble of writing one myself. Actually, if I’d been thinking about it, I would have saved and blogged all the various cultural [...]
Posted in Books on May 21st, 2002
BookCrossing is a really neat idea. 1. You read a book. 2. You register the book on the site and record your comments. 3. You lable the book and leave it for somebody else to find. 4. You track the progress of the book as it is passed from person to person.
I will have [...]
Posted in Books on May 8th, 2002
I’d like to believe that I might enjoy Stephen Wolfram’s new book A New Kind of Science, but something tells me I wouldn’t. I’ll probably buy it anyway when it makes it to paperback.
Posted in Books on Mar 29th, 2002
The MetaFilter Book group is going to be reading Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnik in April. Read it and be ready to discuss it May 1.
Posted in Books on Mar 23rd, 2002
Here is a review of The Making of the Atomic Bomb I recently posted to MeFi Books. This is really a great book. I highly recommend you check it out. more…
Posted in Books on Mar 23rd, 2002
Here is a review of The Tax Inspector that I originally posted to MeFi Books. more…