This is an interesting book. Its quite Stainless Steel Rat like in approach. There is a slightly crooked male lead character, who has unusual insight. He has a beautiful female side kick, who has a strong personality of her own. The story is slightly humorous, and amazing. This is probably the most exciting book I’ve…
Author: mikal
Logan’s Run
Its all about the distopian future novel at the moment (I just finished reading Make Room, Make Room! and Friday, both of which have a not-so-bright vision of the future). This book was turned into a movie as well, and is a lighter read than Make Room, Make Room!. The future is equally dark here…
Friday
This is the first Heinlein book I have read in a long time — since High School in fact. I read this one simply on an impulse, as the back cover description made it sound interesting. Heinlein isn’t on the list of authors that I am pursuing at the moment, although I might consider changing…
Books read in April 2009
Isaac Asimov’s Robot City: Robots and Aliens: Changeling Isaac Asimov’s Robot City: Robots and Aliens: Renegade Servant of the Empire Make Room, Make Room! Nightfall (short stories) Isaac Asimov’s Robot City: Robots and Aliens: Intruder
Isaac Asimov’s Robot City: Robots and Aliens: Intruder
This is the third book in the second Asimov tie in series. Its one of the better ones of the nine I have read so far, and I actually enjoyed reading it (some of the others felt like a bit of a chore). This one covers a return to Robot City, where an outside force…
MythTV Chapter Ready: The Hard Way: Installing MythTV From Source
The Hard Way: Installing MythTV From Source is now ready. In fact, its been ready for quite a while, but I have been trying to blog about the finished chapters in the right order, so it has been trapped in the queue. This chapter discusses how to compile MythTV from source code, which is useful…
Nightfall (short stories)
There are four Asimov books called Nightfall. There is a two volume collection of short stories (Nightfall One and Nightfall Two), a single volume version of this collection, and a novel length version of the short story “Nightfall”, which headlines the short story collections. I’ve previously attempted to explain the list of short stories in…
Isaac Asimov’s Robot Short Stories
I was getting quite confused about which robot short stories I had already read (many appear in more than one collection), so I built this table to help. Note that ecrosses indicate stories which aren’t about robots, and are really stow aways. I, Robot 1950 The Rest of the Robots 1964 The Complete Robot 1982…
How I plan on handling Ubuntu and Mythbuntu 9.04
Ubuntu and Mythbuntu 9.04 have recently been released, and this makes some of the current content for the online MythTV book out of date. The way I plan on handling this is to keep going with the current version 8.10 content, and then update chapters to 9.04 later. This way I don’t delay the overall…
MythTV Chapter Ready: The Hard Way: Installing Ubuntu
The next chapter, The Hard Way: Installing Ubuntu is now ready. This chapter took a lot longer than I wanted because I was distracted by some stuff in my personal life, but I am hoping that the authoring process is now back on track. This chapter covers how to install Ubuntu so that you can…