Saturday, May 31, 2008

Review: Market Forces

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Market Forces ( kindle edition ) is Richard Morgan's novel about capitalism. It depicts a world in which corporations run foreign polic...
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Tips on using the Garmin 76CSx

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Now that I've got more experience with the Garmin 76CSx , I can provide a few tricks: Garmin Mapsource is a piece of crap. It crashes fr...

View of Munich

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View from Top of Frauenkirc he Frauenkirche is the big symbol of Munich, and is taller than all the other churches. You climb up a flight of...
Friday, May 30, 2008

My solution to my banking problems

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I'm just going to go to my bank's ATM, use my American bank's ATM, withdraw money, and then go into the bank's branch and de...
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Review: How to Rig an Election

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How to Rig an Election ( kindle edition ) is a book by Allen Raymond , the Republican operative who went to jail for jamming democratic phon...
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Monday, May 26, 2008

The Perils of International Banking

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Lots of people would believe that in this age of globalization, it would be easy for capital to move around. After all, with wire transfers,...
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Sunday, May 25, 2008

Riding my gloves to destruction

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  I have a history of riding equipment to destruction, but I also have a similar approach to clothing --- I tend not to throw any clothing a...
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Review: Science Fiction, The Best of the Year 2006

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I bought this from Fictionwise's 25% off sale (limited time only) . Way back when I still bought paper books, my brother and I were cons...

Review: Skoody

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I'll admit it --- I got my Skoody at a corporate function, so I have no idea how much it costs. Basically, it's a rain jacket with ...

Review: Farthing

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I started reading Farthing ( free kindle edition ) because Scarlet mentioned it in a post. Since it's one of the many free books Tor h...
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Black Forest Tour

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Black Forest Thursday was a public holiday, so I took the opportunity to add a vacation day and do a long bike tour. The original plan was t...
Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Review: A Song of Stone

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This is an awful book , despite my being a fan of Iain Banks. A noble man (wealthy enough to own a castle) and his companion (it's uncle...
Sunday, May 18, 2008

Deutsches Museum

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It was raining today, so I took the day and spent it at the Deutsches Muesem . Anyone who's known me any length of time will know that I...
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Saturday, May 17, 2008

Review: Northanger Abbey

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One thing about owning a Kindle is that all the classics are pretty much free, courtesy of Project Gutenberg . So when I ran out of purchase...
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Munich

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English Garden So how much do I like Munich? To be honest, I don't usually like cities. They're noisy, dirty, smelly, and I don'...
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Munich: Impressions

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A lot of people have asked me: How do you like Munich? I would say, I like Munich just fine, but of course, I've been working here the...
Thursday, May 15, 2008

Review: Little Brother

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I am of two minds about Cory Doctorow 's Little Brother ( free download under the creative commons license ). Billed as a young adult s...
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Full Feed Available

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Someone told me today that she'd stopped reading my blog because I had turned off full feeds. The reason for doing so was that some nefa...
Monday, May 12, 2008

Review: My Own Kind of Freedom

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One of the big benefits of the Kindle that few people mention is the large collection of free books out there. For instance, Tor has been g...

Review: Woken Furies

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The author bills this as the last Takeshi Kovacs novel ( kindle edition ). At this point, I think I know what to expect from a Takeshi Kov...