Saturday, February 27, 2010

Review: The Spirit Level

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I have mixed feelings about The Spirit Level . On the one hand, I agree with the premise and the thesis of the book: a more equal society ma...
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Friday, February 26, 2010

The story behind the book

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I first thought of writing this book because of having to repeat myself too many times to every new employee at Google who asked me about e...
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Thursday, February 25, 2010

Review: John T Reed's Self-Publishing

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I really liked John T. Reed's Residential Property Handbook , and bought his Self-Publishing Book because I was going to publish my own...
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Soft-launch of books.piaw.net

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My Kickstarter Project finished with 42 backers and over $1,000 in pre-orders! At this point, I've uploaded the final version of the bo...
Sunday, February 21, 2010

Review: The Magicians

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I first read about The Magicians in an interview with Lev Grossman . In it, he proclaimed that the book was about a mash-up of Harry Potter...
Thursday, February 18, 2010

Movie Review: Catfish

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Disclosure: I saw this movie for free at a Google-only screening. One could be forgiven in thinking that Google and Facebook sponsored this ...
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Monday, February 15, 2010

Review: 9

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I will admit that Up disappointed me, and though I liked Wall-E better, I felt that Pixar had not really delivered since The Incredibles ....

Review: Fables 13

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With the 13th collection of Fables , Bill Willingham has jumped the shark. The premise is that there's a different set of literary ins...
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It is nearly impossible to duplicate a photo

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I was complaining that the cover I built didn't have nearly the resolution I would like. The proof isn't back yet, so I can't s...
Sunday, February 14, 2010

Review: Fortune's Formula

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Fortune's Formula is William Poundstone's exploration of gambling and the stock market. He starts with an exposition of the various...
Tuesday, February 09, 2010

Review: Fables Trade Paperback 1-12

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I recently bought the entire Fables Trade Paperback Collection on ebay . I first wrote about Fables in 2007, and since then, the initial...
Monday, February 08, 2010

Review: Juliet, Naked

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I was telling Cynthia earlier today that Nick Hornby is the poet laureate of the Male Obsession Syndrome (MOS). That's the mode many me...

Book Cover is ready!

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I'm in the final phase of the book. At this point, the book has gone to everyone who's quoted in it, as well as every early backer o...
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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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