Year: 2004
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Do lists make you feel better?
If so, read on. As I try and keep up with my reading, and blogging my reading, I got pretty excited by Booxter. A Mac OS X application for cataloging your book collections, Booxter seems to be a smart, focused, network aware application that does one thing — record your book collection — very well.…
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Book: Purple Cow
Seth Godin hardly needs an introduction if you’ve been paying attention to online marketing for the past decade, so I won’t bother. One of the books a colleague at work keeps in her “lending library” is Purple Cow, his penultimate book. Subtitled “Transform your business by being remarkable,” Purple Cow is in style a magazine…
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BlogOn turns On this Thursday
I’m looking forward to being part of BlogOn on Thursday, as a member of the opening panel. I’m doing some thinking on the term “social media.” It’s not a term I’ve heard before this conference was put together, despite my general interest over the last several years in blogs and (more recently) Wikis. Am I…
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Book: The Wine-Dark Sea
Another one gone. The first book I picked up in late June on returning to San Francisco was The Wine-Dark Sea, number 16 in Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey-Maturin series. I can see the end of the line, and that’s not a happy forecast. I should have written my senior thesis comparing the Hornblower novels to the…
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Book: The Godfather
Perhaps I’m the last man over the age of 20 never to have seen The Godfather. At least now I can say I’ve read the book. A good read… the story really moves along. I keep meaning to see the movies but find that I’m not ready to sit down for several hours at a…
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And a few more links lingering in the in-box
This housecleaning is endless. abecedarian was the Word of the Day on May 20. The boy fit the bill at the time, but he’s got it nailed by now. Jakob’s book list contains few I haven’t read, but I want to get to those few. Bad Hair? As Mice Attest, It’s Probably Not Your Shampoo…
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Cleaning out the bookmarks
Bundles of links I’ve been collecting… but they’re not doing me much good in Safari, so here they are for all to peruse. ACM Queue on Enterprise Search, from April 2004. Collection of articles on the topic. Why 1998 Was The Turning Point For Newspapers is Vin Crosbie’s selection of the disintegration of New Century…
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BOOK: The Rule of Four
Nearly a month ago, I took advantage of a train commute to read The Rule of Four. There have been plenty of references in describing (read: hyping) this book to Umberto Eco’s novels, but those are only true in genre. While this tale is also a present-day mystery centered around a historical document/investigation, The Rule…
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First and ten for Ditka?
Mike Ditka is considering running for the Senate, as noted by Dick. Guess Illinois wants to make California’s choice of Arnold look intelligent. Sports Illustrated recently did a photo spread of sports figures turned politicians. Of course, their website doesn’t turn it up, but from memory the two-page spread included Jack Kemp, Bill Bradley, Steve…
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Movie: Spider-man 2
I caught Spider-man 2 this evening. With this movie, I couldn’t escape the reviews and the hype, but I still enjoyed it. Most of all, it felt like the comic book. The movie even is paced like the comic book, with pulsing action, and then some backstory/development, then more pulsing action, in an almost predictable…