Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Financial Planning Talk

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A random group of people invited me to give a talk about financial matters. It was deemed better to have the talk off-site, so that's wh...
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Review: The World Without Us

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People have the tendency to describe books like The World Without Us as eco-porn. Alan Weisman asks (and then answers) the question: how wo...
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Review: Mad Men Seasons 1-3

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I am terrible at marketing, so when I saw that Mad Men was a show about advertising executives, I checked out Mad Men: Season One from the ...

Review: Tampopo

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Someone once told me that Tampopo is a great movie for foodies. It definitely has a lot about food, especially Ramen. The plot revolves a...
Saturday, March 26, 2011

It's Real!

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  It took 2 months, but finally, the US Copyright Office has acknowledged me as the author of Independent Cycle Touring .
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Friday, March 25, 2011

Upgrade pricing for Engineer's Guide to Silicon Valley Startups

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Someone asked me over e-mail if I could provide an upgrade for folks who'd bought the first edition. This seemed like a reasonable reque...
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Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Book Publishing Experiments

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One of the fun things about running an independent book publishing business is that unlike a traditional business I get to make experiments!...
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Sports Basement Talk

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I gave a talk about Independent Cycle Touring yesterday at the Sports Basement in Sunnyvale. It was raining and the talk was lightly attend...
Saturday, March 12, 2011

Review: Cowl

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Cowl is Neal Asher's time travel novel. The novel, not set in his Polity universe, follows two characters, a government trained special...
Thursday, March 10, 2011

Review: T-mobile Pre-Paid

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At the start of the year, I switched over from a Verizon Droid to a Nexus 1 on T-mobile's Prepaid service. The choice was made mostly b...
Tuesday, March 08, 2011

Twitter Presentation

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I gave a presentation at Twitter today. I was invited there by David Loftesness , whom I went to school with, and to my non-surprise, saw a ...
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Monday, March 07, 2011

What to do when you're wealthy

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A soon-to-be-fabulously-wealthy Facebook engineer recently asked on a mailing list what he should consider changing in his life now that he...
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Sunday, March 06, 2011

Alps 2011 Pigeon Point Qualifier

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From Screen Captures From Screen Captures Alps 2011 Qualifier This year's Tour of the Alps qualifier was originally planned to be a t...
Friday, March 04, 2011

Review: Prador Moon

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Prador Moon is set in Neal Asher's polity universe . If you're familiar with Iain Banks' Culture, you can view the polity unive...
Thursday, March 03, 2011

Engineer's Guide goes to the Kindle store!

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Many people have asked me why I don't sell my books in the Kindle store. Most readers don't know how onerous the terms are. For any...
Wednesday, March 02, 2011

Cupertino Bike Shop is now carrying "Independent Cycle Touring"

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Cupertino Bike Shop has started carrying Independent Cycle Touring , my book about bicycle touring. This is the first time any of my books ...

Engineer's Guide goes to 2nd Edition!

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An Engineer's Guide to Silicon Valley Startups has been doing so well that it's nearly sold through it's 3rd printing. Since I...
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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