I read a lot of books, mostly fiction. That said, occassionally I come across a non-fiction book that genuinely changes how I think about something. In general I can tell those books a while later, because they’re the ones I keep referring people to over and over. So here’s a list of the non-fiction books…
Category: Books
Trying out the Apress e-book system
Full disclosure: I am currently writing a book for Apress. As an Apress author Apress asked me to check out the Apress e-book online catalog thingie. They threw in a free e-book as an incentive, so I thought I should give it a try. I’ve done a fair few book reviews for AUUG / Woodslane…
Herm. Jeremy Wright’s book eats my printer driver
Windows Server 2003. Epson Stylus CX3100. Microsoft Word. Page 9 of Chapter 6 consistently eats my printer driver and causes all print outs until the printer is rebooted to be bogus. Strange. [tags: windows printer driver crash word]
Tipping point: windscreen washers
Ian comments on being accosted by a window washer in the CBD, and therefore forces my hand in commenting on this part of my current reading book, The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell. In the section in cleaning up crime in New York during the early 1990’s, I was interested to note that one of…
Second day, and already behind
Herm. I’m having a go at helping Jeremy review his book. Partially because of timezone differences and partially because of giving a talk on my Blosxom blogging engine at a users group last night I’m already a little behind. Time to knuckle down and do some serious reading me thinks. [tags:]
Tipping Point: Gaetan Dugas, the AIDS patient zero
Page 21 of The Tipping Point mentions Gaetan Dugas, the so-called AIDS patient zero: “…the French-Canadian flight attendant, who claimed to have 2,500 sexual partners in North America, and who was linked to at least 40 of the earliest cases of AIDS in California and New York…” Assuming this time line of the AIDS epidemic…