I fielded a couple questions this week about search engine safe URL’s both of them along of the lines of a) how do you create them? and b) are they even worth it? I’m written about how you can create them using Apache before, but one of the things I didn’t mention was that [...]
Peer-To-Peer (amazon, oreilly) is an old book by internet standards (published in March of 2001), but chock full of interesting thoughts and perspectives.
· On gnutella, did you know that you can watch what other people are searching for? The book has a screenshot of gnutella client v0.56, I have Gnucleus, but you can do [...]
I picked up “Things A Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About” by Donald Knuth at Barnes & Noble a couple weeks back on a whim after spending 45 minutes looking through the fascinating science/technology section at the back of the Natick store. (sidenote: some Barnes and Nobles have fabulous science/technology/computer science/engineering sections with rows and rows [...]
This book slapped me in the face last night as I was walking through the computer books section of B&N: Mobile Usability: How Nokia Changed the Face of the Mobile Phone. As described on Amazon, the book “.. explains the philosophies and working methods by which Nokia revolutionized product usability, written by current and former [...]
I finished Emergence: From Chaos to Order a couple weeks ago, snippets that I want to remember include:
On model building: “For most of us model building starts at an early age. As children we use building blocks to generate concrete realizations of our imagination — castles and space stations. This facility for recombining [...]
Saw two books at the JavaOne bookstore that looked intriguing, although pretty expensive:
Programming for the Series 60 Platform and Symbian OS
Wireless Java for Symbian Devices
Finished Prisoner’s Dilemma: John Von Neumann, Game Theory and the Puzzle of the Bomb today, a rainy miserable Saturday just like every other Saturday the last couple weekends here in Massachusetts. When will the weather get better? As before, I like to post interesting quotes:
“… Jacob Bronowski wrote in 1973, ‘You must see [...]
I finished “Gandhi’s Truth: On The Origins of Militant Nonviolence” this morning. I won’t try to summarize what Erik Erikson wrote over 450 pages, but here are a couple quotes I found worth remembering:
“… I must reduce myself to zero. So long as a man does not of his own free will put [...]
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Finished “The Day I Turned Uncool” [official site] [amazon]by Dan Zevin last night. Dan is from Jersey, now resides in Cambridge. 192 pages of fun. Read it if you’re starting to realize you’re not 21 anymore.
On another (completely and totally unrelated) note, I started reading “Ghandi’s Truth: On The Origins [...]
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