At the close of each year for the past several years, the blog TheMillions has published the lists of books read by a wide variety of people whom they invite to share their year's readings. In that spirit, here are the books I read this year (and I don't pretend that these are by any means high-brow but, for the most part, they are good entertainment).It is difficult to place one book over another...
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Dawn over Haleakala Maui, 1992A weekly image from my archive. Click on the image to make it larger.(I originally posted a scanned print of this image however I've now replaced this with a scanned35mm slide. Much better - no schmutz.) When I was in high school there was something of a tradition that we would...
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
David Nagel at Campus Technologies is reporting that the Kno Tablet which is aimed directly at the student market has begun shipping to students and faculty (CT)The Kno tablet, designed specifically for higher education, will be available in limited quantities via invitation starting tomorrow for $599 for the single-screen model and $899 for the dual-screen model.Kno devices sport one or two...
Sunday, December 19, 2010
TechCruch has a snarky piece about the Google eBookstore and some of the commentators see through the bias (TC):Many hopes and dreams were projected onto Google Editions’ vaporware. It would index every published word since the dawn of humanity, and make it possible to search your personal library, and deep-link to individual chapters, sections, and paragraphs. It would somehow singlehandedly...
Thursday, December 16, 2010
As a prelude to thinking about 2011, here were my thoughts for 2010 posted on January 4, 2010.As we greeted the New Year in 2009, we knew we were in for it economically and, as I suggested in my prediction post this time last year, one of the most obvious assumptions was that things would get worse before they...
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