Saturday, January 30, 2010

The Ebook Wars have begun

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Today, McMillan's books are no longer available at Amazon's store. This is not just e-books, but paper books as well. Science Ficti...
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Sunday, January 24, 2010

Review: Baraka Blu Ray

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This is the fourth time I've seen Baraka . I don't make it a point to see movies more than once as a matter of course, but when I fi...
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Kindle Tips

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When I gave Scarlet a Kindle for her birthday last year, I wrote up a page worth of tips for using it. Then as more and more of my friends ...
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Review: John T. Reed's Succeeding

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Succeeding is John T. Reed's self-help book. Self-help books are generally boring and bland, since they have to be designed to sell to ...
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Saturday, January 23, 2010

Review: Nyko Blu Wave Remote

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The PS3 , as previously mentioned , makes a fantastic blu-ray and DVD player. However, it does have one flaw, which is that it can only be c...
Sunday, January 17, 2010

Book Update

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For those of you who are wondering about the book . I'm now close enough to the finish line that I'm starting to think about things ...
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Disappointed with Battlestar Galactica Seasons 3 and 4

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After I wrote the rave reviews of Battlestar Galactica Seasons 1 and 2 , I let it lie fallow for a few years, partly because I was in Germa...
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Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Review: Drive

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Drive is the latest in a series of books that really should have been a magazine article. You can get most of the gist of the book from the...
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Monday, January 11, 2010

Little things that matter

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I'm finally watching the Season 4.5 of Battlestar Galactica , on the new PS3 setup . What amazed me about the PS3 is that it's actua...
Sunday, January 10, 2010

Appendix: Equipment Reviews

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The following equipment worked very well, as previously reviewed: Amazon Kindle Battery Geek CPAP-222 Battery Gomadic Charging System The fo...

Conclusion and Thoughts

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Usually when I go on vacation, the general rule is the cheaper the vacation, the better experience I have. That's because you do more on...
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Tuesday, January 05, 2010

Kindle DX just went international

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The Kindle DX just picked up international wireless! Unfortunately, they haven't dropped the price, indicating that the sales volume is...
Sunday, January 03, 2010

Sailing and Diving St. Vincent and the Grenadines

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This is the index page for our recent sailing and diving trip through St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Unlike other sailing trips, I learned ...
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2010 Book Reviews Index

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Note: The Books of the Year for 2010 have been picked. Fiction Perdido Street Station Juliet, Naked The Magicians Manifold: Time The ...
Saturday, January 02, 2010

Review: Perdido Street Station

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Perdido Street Station is China Mieville 's steampunk novel set in the city of New Crobuzon. It took me two tries to read it: the firs...
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Friday, January 01, 2010

Epilogue

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The rest of the trip was uneventful, as we took various taxis, planes, and so forth back home. We had a bit of time between the ferry and th...

New Year's Day

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We woke up at 5:45am and hurriedly packed whatever we could not pack the day before, and brought all our lugguage. I woke up Alena at 6:00am...
Thursday, December 31, 2009

New Year's Eve

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We were picked up right at 9:10am by the dive boat, and threw in our gear and headed over to the north coast of Bequia to do a drift dive. O...

Review: Treason

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Treason was a free book I picked up from the Kindle store. In fact, all of Don Brown's books are available for free. It didn't tak...
Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Bequia

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Despite Norman's tinkering with the skiff's outboard, it still wasn't running reliably. At this point, I made the comment to Ron...