Year: 2005
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New York Public Library — warm, free, and interesting
While in New York City last week, rambling around on my own for an afternoon, I went over to the New York Public Library. I feel confident I’ve been there before, but it felt like the first time all the same. I had no specific ideas in mind beyond checking out the reading room and…
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Book: Sharpe’s Tiger
I’ve docked my O’Brian ship, as noted. Yet, I’m still reading about the Napoleonic wars from the British side, but this time on land. Bernard Cornwell’s Sharpe books are probably almost as well known as the Aubrey-Maturin books, so I thought I’d give them a try. My first entry is Sharpe’s Tiger. I had a…
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Links4U, New Year’s Day edition
Time to clear the bookmarks bar, and close some of those open browser windows without losing the reason I opened them in the first place. Without further ado (’cause there’s lots here): Mark Glaser wraps up the year in blogging at OJR. Gets some interesting folks to comment, and predict. I do share Peter Krasilovsky’s…
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Re-plugged
I won’t claim I’m back up to speed, but all the home email is read, the aggregator is showing only a day’s worth of new items, and I’ve got fewer than ten open browser windows. (I’m not a fan yet of tabbed browsing.) That means that with some focused time (ha!), I could be caught…