Archive for the ‘Books’ Category
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
LibraryThing is one of my favorite web 2.0 sites. As I mentioned in an earlier post, it is Flickr for bookworms. One of my missions is to always have a book that I'm actively reading - something I keep around with a bookmark in it, reading it whenever I get ...
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Friday, April 27th, 2007
I find it easier nowadays to use PDF documents and other screen-based formats for my reading needs than to use books. The reasons are that I can enlarge the fonts, I can scroll with minimal effort in a comfortable position (which helps with speed-reading), and text-to-speech features found in Acrobat ...
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Saturday, May 27th, 2006
I'm an avid reader of books. I am kind of an Amazon.com addict that way too. Unfortunately, 95% of the books I read are of the geek variety - some sort of alphabet soup of technologies that I'm constantly chasing in order to stay on top of the web development ...
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Wednesday, May 24th, 2006
I found a funny thing when reading my copy of The Zen of CSS Design by Dave Shea and Molly Holzschlag. When I got to page 83, the page facing it to it's right was page 113. This continued on for about 20 pages or so, then another page 83, ...
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Tuesday, May 16th, 2006
I wasn't going to go see The Da Vinci Code before, but now I'm gonna!
CNN.com - 'Da Vinci' provokes widespread protests - May 16, 2006
Now that's a movie I'd like to see!
It amazes me that wingnut factions worldwide will call more attention to an issue that they hate by kicking ...
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