Saturday, June 18, 2011

Review: In The Plex

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In The Plex is Steven Levy's book about Google. After Levy's last book, The Perfect Thing , I was really unimpressed and expected a...
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Review: American Born Chinese

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I read that American Born Chinese is so far the only graphic novel to have been nominated for the National Book Award. That blew my mind, s...
Thursday, June 16, 2011

Review: Norton Ghost

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Windows Image backup does the right thing in the majority of cases --- if your replacement hard drive is as big or bigger than your old hard...
Friday, June 10, 2011

Startup Engineering Management Beta Program Closed

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Due to overwhelming response to yesterday's post about Startup Engineering Management , I have all the beta-readers I need for now. (And...

Independent Cycle Touring presentations

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Independent Cycle Touring , in some ways, is the book that I spent 18 years cycling in order to learn how to write. As a cycle touring book...
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Thursday, June 09, 2011

Beta Test My Next Book!

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My next book has reached a critical juncture. It's called Startup Engineering Management , and you can read all about it (including seei...
Wednesday, June 08, 2011

Review: Feed

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Feed is the second novel in my current Hugo Nominees reading list. It's a surprising good novel, even though the subject matter was for...
Friday, June 03, 2011

Review: The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

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This is part of a series of reviews for the Hugo awards. One of the other novels, Cryoburn , was already reviewed and found wanting, so I wa...
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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...