Tuesday, May 31, 2011

My Hugo Votes

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Best Short Story Ponies , by Kij Johnson. The shortest of the lot, and a brilliant portrayal of children's cruelty to one another. Won...
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Sunday, May 29, 2011

First Impressions: Garmin Edge 800

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My Garmin GPS 76CSx works as well today as it did when I got it years ago. The Achille's heel of the product, however, is the bike moun...
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Friday, May 27, 2011

Review: The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath The Queen's Window

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The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath The Queen's Window is the fourth of my Hugo Voting Packet reads. This is the best of the bunch...

Review: The Sultan of the Clouds

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Continuing on my Hugo Voting Package, next up is The Sultan of the Clouds . Geoffrey Landis is an honest to goodness scientist, and he gets ...
Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Review: Troika

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I'm slowly working through the Hugo Voting packet. Alastair Reynold's Troika was next in the pipe. If you've read any of Reynol...
Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Review: The Lifecycle of Software Objects

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I don't usually review works shorter than a novel, but this year's Hugo voting package included Ted Chiang's The Lifecycle of So...
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Friday, May 20, 2011

Review: Something Ventured

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I got a chance to see Something Ventured as part of UC Berkeley's alumni events. It's a movie about the early days of the venture c...
Tuesday, May 17, 2011

My Backup/Restore Nightmare

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Ok, we've established that Solid State Drives fail frequently . But the computer now feels slow without solid state drives, so now we ha...
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Review: OCZ Vertex 2 SSD

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Roberto Peon and Pengtoh had both raved about their SSDs, so when a good deal came up on the OCZ Technology 120 GB Vertex 2 Series SATA II ...
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Review: Pegasus

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I rarely write negative reviews of books because I usually give up reading them before getting to the end. Unfortunately, Pegasus is one of...
Sunday, May 15, 2011

Culture

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I recently ran across a couple of articles about Google. The first was an interview with one of Jaiku's co-founders . The second was an ...
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Friday, May 06, 2011

Review: Pump Six and Other Stories

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Pump Six and Other Stories is Paolo Bacigalupi's collection of short stories. You can buy a DRM-free ebook version from Baen's Webs...
Wednesday, May 04, 2011

Review: Nurture Shock

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Someone suggested that I read NurtureShock after reading my review of Brain Rules for Baby . Coming in right after Battle Hymn of the Tiger...
Monday, May 02, 2011

Review: Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

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After all that mess in the media about The Tiger Mom Controversy , I didn't expect Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother to be fun to read bu...

Mt Tam Wilflower Hike

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  Yoyo Zhou, Tracy Ng, and I got to the Mountain Inn trailhead at 8:40am, and got started almost right away on the hike. The goal for me wa...
Saturday, April 30, 2011

Mad Men Season 4

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At 13 episodes a season, Mad Men manages to keep the quality of its writing high, and Mad Men: Season Four was not an exception. What's...
Thursday, April 28, 2011

Review: The Immigrants

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The Immigrants is a novel set in the Greater San Francisco Bay Area. For some reason, San Francisco has yet to have its Raymond Chandler, (...
Saturday, April 23, 2011

Review: Ex Machina Volumes 1-6

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Ex Machina is a comic book about a superhero who talks to machines. Sounds like an interesting, if not all that exciting hook. Well, it tur...
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Friday, April 15, 2011

Review: Blood Music

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Blood Music is Greg Bear's classic book on nanotechnology and the "Gray Ooze" threat. The plot is implausible, including the ...
Thursday, April 14, 2011

Review: Fables 15

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Fables 14 started a story arc that was interesting and got me to pre-order Fables Vol. 15 . Rather than attack the story arc directly, Fabl...