Archive for March, 2008

Read a book. Or thirty

March 19th 2008

I like to read. I also like to get in over my head.

For the most part, I read for education, but sometimes for entertainment. Sometimes it works both ways and I benefit more. There is much rejoicing.

This is my list of books that I’m either reading, or have on my shelf to read. It’s disgusting.


  • The Complete Ball Python – Kevin McCurley link

  • The More Complete Chondro – Greg Maxwell link

  • Mein Kampf – Adolf Hitler link

  • Programming Role Playing Games with DirectX, 2nd Edition – Jim Adams link

  • Security in Computing – Charles P. Pfleeger and SHari Lawrence Pfleeger link

  • Modern Operating Systems, 2nd Edition – Andrew S. Tanenbaum link

  • Eclipse: Building Commercial Quality Plugins, 2nd Edition – Eric Clayberg and Dan Rubel

  • Writing Secure Code, 2nd Edition – Michael Howard and David LeBlanc link

  • Applied Cryptography, 2nd Edition – Bruce Schneier link

  • The Art of Keeping Snakes – Philippe de Vosjoli link

  • Rapid Development – Steve McConnell link

  • Code Complete, 2nd Edition – Steve McConnell link

  • Rainbox Six – Tom Clancy link

  • Splinter Cell: Operation Barracuda – David Michaels link

  • Splinter Cell: Checkmate – David Michaels link

  • Ravenor – Dan Abnett link

  • The Selfish Gene, 30th Anniversary Edition – Richard Dawkins link

  • The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins link

  • Ideas and Opinions – Alberta Einstein link

  • Relativity: The Special and General Theory – Albert Einstein link

  • The Code Book – Simon Singh link

  • Fermat’s Enigma – Simon Singh link

  • A Brief History of Time, 10th Anniversary Edition – Stephen Hawking link

  • The Universe in a Nutshell – Stephen Hawking link

  • God Created the Integers – Stephen Hawking link

  • The Elegant Universe – Brian Greene link

  • The Fabric of the Cosmos – Brian Greene link

  • SmallTalk-80: The Language – Adele Goldberg and David Robson link

  • Data Structures and Their Algorithms – Harry R. Lewis and Larry Denenberg link

  • UNIX: The Textbook, 2nd Edition – Sarwar, Koretsky, and Sarwar link

  • Malicious Mobile Code – Roger A. Grimes link

  • The Art of UNIX Programming – Eric S. Raymond link

  • Never Hitchhike on the Road Less Travelled – William Thomas

  • Linux Firewalls, 3rd Edition – Steve Suehring and Robert L. Ziegler

  • The Portable Technical Writer -Murdick and Bloemker

  • Applied Statistics and Probability for Engineers, 4th Edition – Douglas C. Montgomery and George C. Runger

  • The Communist Manifesto – Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels link

  • The Lord of the Rings – J. R. R. Tolkien

  • The Art of War – Sun-Tzu link

  • Hitler’s Scientists – John Cornwell link

  • Principia – Isaac Newton link

  • The Humane Interface – Jef Raskin link

  • The Origin of Species - Charles Darwin link

  • Strategies for Engineering Communication – Susan Stevenson and Steve Whitmore

  • The Art of Producing Games – David McCarthy, Ste Curran, and Simon Byron

  • 10 issues of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

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Dot Net is huge

March 18th 2008

Seriously. It’s gigantic. Check out the pretty pictures at the link to see just how big.

Brad Abrams : Number of Types in the .NET Framework

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MMO Learning Curves

March 13th 2008

4”>

Start Slide Show with PicLens Lite PicLens

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Metal Gear Awesome

March 5th 2008

Old, but funny.

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It’s BACON!

March 3rd 2008

Who needs bacon cups? I do. I’m going to try this on the weekend. Should be interesting.

not martha

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