Year: 2005
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Book: Sharpe’s Gold
Although Sharpe’s Gold is the ninth book, chronologically, in the series, it was only the second Bernhard Cornwell wrote. Aside from demonstrating the cruelty of the guerrilla war pursued by the Portugese partisans, Sharpe’s Gold gives Cornwell an excuse to have Sharpe blow up the fortress at Almeida… while the British and Portuguese are occupying…
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Job available: senior software engineer at CNET Networks, in San Francisco
I’ll interrupt my exciting rundown of my reading habits to let people know that CNET Networks is hiring. Personally, I wanted to call attention to the one of the senior software engineer positions. If you read CNET News.com and love delivering tech news first — and tech news in different ways, this is a great…
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Book: Showstopper! the breakneck race to create Windows NT and the next generation at Microsoft
Maybe it’s a true test of a book about the software industry to read it 11 years later. G. Paschal Zachary’s Showstopper! the breakneck race to create Windows NT and the next generation at Microsoft was published in 1994. The book strives to do for software development what Tracy Kidder’s The Soul of a New…
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Cingular’s policies are bad, bad, bad
I had a longer rant storing up about Cingular’s policies, but I just have to say… bleeehhhhhh! Last week, I replaced the five-year-old candy bar Nokia with a Treo 650, in the process moving my AT&T account to Cingular, officially (my phone has reminded me for months that I’m on Cingular’s network). Despite signing up…
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Book: Wellington: The Years of the Sword
Wellington: The Years of the Sword was written in 1969 by Elizabeth Longford, a descendent of her subject. Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington, was as close to being the British Army’s version of the Navy’s Lord Nelson as anyone got. If you want a short biography, try this Victorian Web page. The book, as…
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Microformats are almost a cornucopia of the commons
Five years ago, Dan Bricklin posted The Cornucopia of the Commons: How to get volunteer labor. This excellent essay explains simply what factors need to combine to create common value out of individual selfishness, and why it’s more likely in the information age. The recent flurry of activity around tagging and folksonomies prompted him, in…
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Follow clock in Newsburst
Just in case you haven’t tried Newsburst yet, here’s an easy way to follow clock: Add clock to Newsburst. If you’re not registered (free) at any CNET site, you’ll be asked to register. There are, of course, many more reasons to use Newsburst. If you want to build your own “add to Newsburst” link, just…
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Webshots, HeyPix, and Flickr
So Scoble posts that the HeyPix acquisition by CNET Networks’ Webshots is possibly a bigger photo deal than Flickr going to Yahoo. Later, Scoble points to a response from a member of Flickr’s board of directors, Frank Boosman. Only time will tell what all this means and who’s “right.” My one quibble with Boosman’s response…
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Red ink
Thanks to Jeff Carlson for pointing out the travesty of red ink’s demise in the classroom (CNN). With many teachers in the family, I know that red ink is still alive in some classrooms. Also, as a parent, if my kids can’t handle red ink on their work, well, we’re doing even more wrong than…
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Growth… like mold?
Paul Graham, on Why Smart People Have Bad Ideas, notes: If you’re going to spend years working on something, you’d think it might be wise to spend at least a couple days considering different ideas, instead of going with the first that comes into your head. You’d think. But people don’t. … Part of the…