Or at least, placing an order for one that would be filled at an unspecified future date.
Pros:
Dark Star
And many others by Furst
The Essential Galbraith
Pride and Prejudice
Foundation
Nixonland — !!
Tai Pan
The Pillars of the Earth
Postwar
Right Ho, Jeeves
Guns, Germs, and Steel
The Return of Depression Economics
Cons:
Infinite Jest
Code of the Woosters
Joy in the Morning
Harry Potter (not ONE of them)
Master and [...]
John Updike on the magic of the printed word. This is how I feel about the electronic word and (more recently) scripting languages. These are magical things.
From earliest childhood I was charmed by the materials of my craft, by pencils and paper and, later, by the typewriter and the entire apparatus of printing. To condense [...]
One month ago:
Blog Indexing Fail
Total URLs in Sitemap: 1002
Indexed URLs in Sitemap: 59 (6%)
Today’s report:
Posts Indexed:
Total URLs in Sitemap: 1010
Indexed URLs in Sitemap: 981 (97%)
Index pages indexed:
Total URLs in Sitemap: 799
Indexed URLs in Sitemap: 765 (96%)
Verily I say Google’s sitemap service is extremely effective in getting your site indexed. Now getting it ranked, that’s another [...]
I’m still less than a week into owning the iPod Touch and I find myself truly amazed by this device. I had a Blackberry for a few months about three years ago, but there’s simply no comparison. There are things I feel it is lacking. A simple list function would be a fantastic addition, although [...]
Truly we have reached the singularity. The wphone plugin combines two of today's best technologies; the iPhone (or in my case the iPod touch and wordpress. Additionally, I now understand why not having copy and paste capabilities on this device is such a big deal. — # 11/21/2007
This is a test post from my new iPod touch. This might be the coolest thing I've ever used. — # 11/20/2007
Rounding out this collection (not to say series) of plugin-related links, In Series. Next up, why doesn't textile2 work with the asides category? — # 10/24/2007
This may become necessary. Expanding this blog to have private and public sections is under deep consideration. — # 10/24/2007
List of the presentations now available from TED. Particularly interested in the Ken Robinson talk. I’ve been thinking a good deal about schooling lately.
Updated—November 28, 20008
Some talks I’ve watched:
Jared Diamond: This isn’t bad, but I didn’t get the feeling he prepared this talk solely for TED. It felt like a spoken word into to Collapse.
John [...]
Good explanation of joins complete with some helpful Venn diagrams. This will be helpful as the great baseball project continues. — # 10/24/2007
Over six years ago: "I'd like some assurance that they’re going to last through the summer, much less two years." — # 06/20/2007
I’m engaged in a concerted effort to dig through the last 6 years of archives and update every post with at least one category and perhaps a few tags. As we get really far back, I’ll face the decision of whether to update the old blogger posts with actual titles. I think I’ve done about [...]
Google Reader has updated tonight with a new trends feature. All a part of Google’s effort to tell you more about yourself. In this case there are no surprises. Over time I expect the % Read figure for Messrs. Marshall & Yglesias will climb thanks to their switching to full text feeds.
Subscription # Read [...]
You’d never know it, but this is the 5th time I’ve written this post tonight. Or maybe the 4th, I’ve lost count, and yet I’ve written each version within the last 90 minutes.
Does the textile1 plugin work? Yes, but I’m going to use Textile2. Not to be confused with Textile2.1.
Textile2.1 doesn’t work with wordpress2.2
At some [...]
At some point I need to get one of these and set it up. — # 03/29/2007
Brad, what this meme needs is a tag! All the great memes have their own tags.
Meme Watch: “East African Plains Ape”
I am no longer the only person on the Internets talking about the East African Plains Ape:
Achenblog: Daily Humor and Observations from Joel Achenbach : ...I am happy knowing that some of my [...]
Since the Long Tail concept was so popular in 2006, why not give it a kick on the way to 2007? "Of course a couple of those top 10 sites are actually places like YouTube and MySpace where large amounts of user generated content drives traffic and then deposits money in hands not of the creators, but instead in the coffers of the large corporate landlords. Nicholas Carr aptly compares this setup to sharecropping." — # 01/2/2007
From four years ago. Dave Winer on when to give away technology: "Where you want competition, give away the technology. Where you want to be competitive, keep it to yourself." — # 01/2/2007
In October Sevin Rose decided to return the moneys raised for their Fund X because they felt the Venture Capital model was broken. Fred Wilson agreed in part, but disagreed in a much larger part. As part of his end-of-year posts, Fred lays out the differences in the Web startup model between Web1.0 and Web2.0. In short, it's a lot cheaper to start up, but the total cost to build a viable business hasn't come down a huge amount (if at all). There are some exceptions (there always are), but in general Web startups still seem to require about $20mm all told. — # 12/21/2006
Via the Eye of Scoble, Five Reasons Websites Fail: "Webmasters often times over complicate their website by providing too many links and too much text for their viewers to look at. The best websites on the net are those that take something that may be complicated, but present it in such a way that appears simple to its viewers." — # 12/17/2006