Just what we need. Another religious person with an influence over our politicians. WTF do the interpretations of 3000 year old ramblings have to do with our actions in the 21st Century. Nothing in my opinion. Humanity needs to let go of all this religious nonsense and move on. I fear it might be too late however. The world is slipping back into silly dogma. It wasn’t meant to be like this. 🙁
I’m off to read this again. That’s the kind of future we need.
Giggle! This is good.
Next week looks like it’ll be interesting for those of use interested in server virtualisation. Word on the street is that VMware will introduce a free mid tier product in the space they currently sell GSX Server in. Also it appears that NSI will be releasing a version of DoubleTake targeted towards replication of virtual servers. You can already use VMware and DoubleTake together but it’ll be good to have an easily configured and licensed product.
How many times have you been in a presentation where the slides were simply read to you? Death by PowerPoint anyone? The Presentation Zen web site is a really good resource for avoiding this in your own presentations.
I’ll be trying to do more visual presentations in future. Keep the text to a bare minimum.
This, as the title suggests, is a parody of The Matrix Trilogy by Adam Roberts who also wrote The Soddit. If you have seen the films, and you are not too precious about them, then you’ll probably enjoy this. It’s not as good as The Soddit, and you have to have seen the films I think to get this, but does have some interesting commentary towards the end on the whole cult of celebrity thing we seem to be immersed in these days.
Mark Morford ponders this question.
My first experience of Peter F. Hamilton’s work was the opening volume of The Nights Dawn trilogy. I was a few hundred pages into this huge space opera work when it was revealed what was happening to characters. Don’t want to outline it here as it will be a spoiler for anyone who comes to read the series later. For my part I hated the idea and didn’t finish the first volume. I was really disappointed as the book up to that point had been excellent. I recently got rid of them during a clear out.
I was in Waterstone’s in Belfast a few weeks ago and noticed a new book by Hamilton called Judas Unchained. This was billed as the second book in The Commonwealth Saga. The first book in the saga is Pandora’s Star which they also had in stock. Reading a bit of it in the store it looked really interesting. Galaxy spanning space opera. I love space opera that is huge in scope.
I’ve just finished Judas Unchained. I have to say that this has lived up to my hopes. The two books, Pandora’s Star and Judas Unchained, are really a single long book that just happens to have been published as two volumes. It’s about 1800 pages long and is huge in scope. The characters are believable, the future galactic colonisation is really well described and the aliens are probably the best I’ve read about in any fiction.
This is a keeper. I’ll be reading it again very soon just for the sheer pleasure and to pick up on anything I’ve missed first time. I can see this book, treating the two volumes as a single entity, joining the list of my favourite books.
There is a description of The Commonwealth Saga here. It has Spoilers!!
I had another 6-month checkup today after my TC in 2003. Physical examination was clear, results of ultrasound done a few months ago were reviewed. They were clear. I also had a chest x-ray taken for a clinician to review for any signs of remission. If that is clear, and I expect it will be, then my next check-up will be in a year.
So, onwards and upwards. 🙂
Ruin Christmas. Use this.
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Doing Windows based IT pays my bills. There are several dead forests worth of books on Microsoft software, and other IT topics, published every year. The list below contains what I consider to be my current essential IT books, with links to Amazon UK.
If you have a favorite IT book feel free to post details in the comments.
