Friday, September 30, 2011

Review: Blood of Elves

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If you wanted to prove that dead-tree publishers are brain dead and will not be missed during the e-book revolution, exhibit #1 would be the...
Thursday, September 29, 2011

REI Series of Talks is Over!

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From BayArea At a WorldCon seminar, Sandra Tayler told me that people get hung up on the bookstore signings, and that's why they try t...
Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Review: The AI War

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Daniel Keys Moran's Continuing Time series has been one of my favorites. He's a good writer with compelling characters that keep yo...
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Monday, September 26, 2011

Execution Strategy and Business Strategy

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Rebecca Frankel shared on her Google Reader Feed this image: I think it's a great example of execution strategy. A frequently used ex...
Saturday, September 24, 2011

Review: The Dragon Never Sleeps

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The Dragon Never Sleeps ( DRM-free kindle-compatible edition ) was a difficult book for me to read. The first time I tried to read it, I co...
Friday, September 23, 2011

Location Still Matters

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This year's been interesting as I got invited to several startups either to talk or to give advice. Usually, I try to mix it with anothe...
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Thursday, September 22, 2011

Span of Controls

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Coincident with the launch of Startup Engineering Management , I'd been asked to help out at a few startups, two of which were Obvious ...
Friday, September 16, 2011

Startup Engineering Management gets .mobipocket and .epub

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One of the workflow changes I made when publishing Startup Engineering Management was to use Adobe InDesign instead of Microsoft Word or O...
Thursday, September 15, 2011

Independent Cycle Touring in Europe: The Presentation

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Independent Cycle Touring in Europe View more presentations from Piaw Na . If you've been following this blog, you know that I've ...

Now Shipping: Startup Engineering Management

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My latest book, Startup Engineering Management is now shipping. Until now, all my books have been relatively independent of each other: t...
Sunday, September 11, 2011

Review: The Lost Fleet: Beyond the Frontier: Dreadnaught

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I've been buying all the previous Lost Fleet novels on Kindle mostly because they were priced right, and written pretty much as airplan...
Saturday, September 10, 2011

Charts and Tables from Independent Cycle Touring

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One of the things I wanted to do but kept forgetting to was to extract all the charts and tables from Independent Cycle Touring and put it ...
Tuesday, September 06, 2011

Review: Girl Genius Omnibus 1

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Girl Genius has won the Hugo for best comic several years running. While they have everything on the web, it's much faster to read comi...
Sunday, September 04, 2011

Review: Big Bang Theory Season 3

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I saw episodes at random times, mostly on the N1. This is the season that made Jim Parsons a major star (or rather, the critics finally agr...
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Review: Jack of Fables Vol 2-4

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While Fables keeps going from strength to strength, Jack of Fables was for me, a bit of a dud. I read the first 6 issues but it didn't...

Review: How To Train Your Dragon

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At WorldCon, there was a panel entitled "The Real Revenge of the Nerds", where the theme was the recent spate of movies where the ...
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Review: Why We Get Fat

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I've pretty much ignored all the Paleo/Atkins/Low Carb diet craze the last few years, and Cynthia recommended Why We Get Fat as a way t...
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Thursday, September 01, 2011

An Engineer's Guide to Silicon Valley Startups now on the NOOK

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Note that as with the Kindle version , this is the first edition. I have no expectation of significant revenue, but the BN store front was e...

Long Term Review: Garmin Edge 800

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(Please also see First Impressions ) I've now lived with the Edge 800 for over 1700 miles, including quite a bit of hiking. The unit h...

Review: Air Berlin

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This year was the first time we flew Air Berlin . If you're a cyclist, there are only three viable airlines to Europe if you wish to bri...