Thursday, August 02, 2012

Review: The Gathering Storm

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The Gathering Storm is book 1 of Winston Churchill's epic 6-book fantasy novel about a war that engulfed the entire world from 1939 to ...
Monday, July 30, 2012

Review: Touchback

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Most free kindle books are terrible, and I admit that my few reviews of them have reflected that. When I saw that Touchback had been option...
Saturday, July 28, 2012

Re-read: Altered Carbon

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I first reviewed Altered Carbon 4 years ago in Munich, and I recently finished reading it again as the other book that I'm trying to f...

Review: Orange Internet Max (France)

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As a very cheap person and proud of it, I rarely run my Nexus One in data mode when I'm at home: I'm usually within wifi range, and ...
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Saturday, July 21, 2012

Review: The Curse of Chalion

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I rarely re-read books, especially fiction. Yet when I was done with my last depressing review, I found myself turning to The Curse of Chali...
Thursday, July 19, 2012

Review: The Price of Inequality

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The Price of Inequality is a depressing book. It describes how American society has gotten to the point where it is today: where there'...
Thursday, July 12, 2012

Review: Team Geek

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Full disclosure: I was paid to review and provide criticism of an early version of Team Geek . I knew Brian Fitzpatrick and Ben Collins-Suss...

Review: The Spy Who Came In From The Cold

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Fiction authors love to pretend that their craft is never obsolete, unlike those of us who write technical books. The Spy Who Came In From T...
Sunday, July 01, 2012

Review: What's Going on In There?

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What's Going On In There is a baby neurologist/brain development book. You might consider it competition for Brain Rules For Baby , exc...

Review: A Dance With Dragons

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After A Feast For Crows I told myself that I shouldn't read any more books in the series because of how bad and frustrating it was. But...
Sunday, June 03, 2012

Review: Kelty FC 3.0

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A baby is a lot like a camera: you might have only one body, but you'll end up with a bunch of different bags and packages to stuff that...
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Friday, June 01, 2012

Review: Sennheiser RS120 wireless headphones

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Now that I share an office with my wife and a house with a baby, keeping volume down when watching video, etc., has suddenly become importan...
Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Review: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Extended Edition on Kindle

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I used to subscribe to science fiction magazines on paper. Pulp magazines really haven't changed for decades, though the content has cha...
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Friday, May 25, 2012

Review: Scott Pilgrim

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I came to Scott Pilgrim by way of the movie, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World . I could explain the plot, but you'd probably have more fun wa...
Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Two of my books are now available on Amazon!

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The 3rd Edition of An Engineer's Guide to Silicon Valley Startups is now available on Amazon.com . Since paper books are now a vanishin...
Sunday, May 20, 2012

Review: Banana - The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World

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I love bananas. They are by far my favorite fruit, and judging from the statistics in the book, Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed t...
Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Review: Just Ride, A Radically Practical Guide to Riding Your Bike

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I've known Grant Petersen since his Bridgestone days, and have ridden with him several times, as well as contributed to his newsletter, ...

An Inflated Sense of Risk

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I was at the Berkeley alumni panel organized by Dan Wallach a week or so back, and was very fortunate to be seated next to Jon Blow when s...
Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Don't Blame The Engineer

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I was talking to someone at a big company recently, and we talked about their retention problem. The person said something to the effect tha...
Monday, May 14, 2012

Choosing between jobs

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One question that occasionally comes up at the end of a Negotiation cycle is, "Ok, now I have all these offers, how do I choose?"...
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