Sunday, February 27, 2011

Introducing my Consultancy Service

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I've been helping people on various things, ranging from linking up their startups with potential employees, helping various people vet ...
Thursday, February 24, 2011

Review: The Skinner

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The Skinner introduces us to Neal Asher's world of SpatterJay. While it has all the trappings of science fiction, there's actually ...
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Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Review: Peopleware

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I've always considered Peopleware to be the best management book for technologists, and recently wanted to re-read it as preparation fo...
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Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Piaw versus The Post Office

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One of the consequences of being a self-publisher and self-distributor of books is that I'm continually running up against various weird...
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Sunday, February 13, 2011

Review: The Victorian Internet

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In addition to The Box , Paul Krugman also recommended The Victorian Internet , which is an account of the invention of the telegraph and th...
Thursday, February 10, 2011

The High Costs of Distribution

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Occasionally, someone will ask me why I only sell on my web-site. The answer is that distribution is expensive. In particular, my first book...
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Wednesday, February 09, 2011

Review: The Box

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If you do any sailing on San Francisco Bay, you'll see container ships. Giant ships stacked with containers coming in full and leaving e...
Monday, February 07, 2011

Setting up a Proxy Server on Windows

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If you've ever traveled outside the US, you know what a pain that is to access certain web-sites. In particular, lots of web-sites have ...
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Talk at Sports Basement, March 22nd

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For those of you who have thought about getting a copy of Independent Cycle Touring but have hesitated because you would rather see a copy ...
Friday, February 04, 2011

Review: Shadow of the Scorpian

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Shadow of the Scorpion is a prequel to Gridlinked , starring Ian Cormac, the unbelievably competent ECS agent of the prior novel. The nov...
Sunday, January 30, 2011

Trip Report: Cozumel/Carmen de Playa

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Cozumel Matt Vera's Photos I just got back from a mostly diving trip in Cozumel/Carmen de Playa. I'm not as avid a diver as I am...
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Pengtoh Has Started Blogging

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Pengtoh has started blogging, and on a very consistent basis. This is great to see. For those of you who don't know, Pengtoh was the sm...
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Review: Dollhouse Season 2

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My complaints about the first season of dollhouse was due to how slow the plot was, and how nobody had ever seemed to have heard of off-sit...
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Saturday, January 29, 2011

Review: Writing Fiction for Dummies

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Disclaimer: I got my copy of Writing Fiction For Dummies for free as a Kindle e-book giveaway. I was very pleasantly surprised by this bo...

Review: The Party - The Secret World of China

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Westerners tend to have a very un-nuanced view of China. For instance, when Burton Malkiel came back from China, he was over-flowing with en...
Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Review: The Engineer Reconditioned

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Neal Asher's Gridlinked was a lot of fun, so I checked out The Engineer ReConditioned from the library to see if his short stories wer...
Thursday, January 13, 2011

Review: Cutting For Stone

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I was told to read Cutting for Stone for a good novel about Ethiopia and Surgery. Literary novels are always hard for me to read: many time...
Sunday, January 09, 2011

The "Tiger Mom" Parenting Controversy

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The blogosphere and quora controversy over Amy Chua's "Tiger Mom" parenting article has reached a fever pitched in the part ...
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Saturday, January 08, 2011

Google Docs Fail

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I've been selling digital editions of An Engineer's to Silicon Valley Startups by simply e-mailing the files to customers. The comp...
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Monday, January 03, 2011

Independent Cycle Touring has Shipped!

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Today, I got 2 big boxes from my postman containing the print edition of Independent Cycle Touring . If you've pre-ordered your copies, ...
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