Archive for 2008
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Over a decade before the Sony Reader and the Amazon Kindle were twinkles in the eyes of their makers, and several years before the Rocket eBook would enter the market, the late Jim Baen was quietly testing the waters of electronic publishing.
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Saturday, March 29th, 2008
This was my 10th year at MegaCon, Florida's largest comic book and scifi/fantasy convention.
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
I'm hoping that as I make my way through Physics of the Impossible, Kaku will avoid Hawking's penchant for history. I wonder how much of the futurist's tendency to repeat himself is really the fault of the author; I imagine Kaku's editors are told by the publisher to make any book in the series serve as a possible entry point for any reader, so that means we're going to hear about how Kaku built an atom smasher in high school again, or read an explanation of Michael Faraday's early years in every book. Annoying? Yes. Necessary? Not so much.
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
In Print is Dead, one of Jeff Gomez's arguments in the chapter "On Demand Everything" struck me as peculiar. While I haven't finished the entire book yet, I find myself agreeing with almost all of his defenses of the e-book, even when he sometimes arrives at different conclusions than I do.
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
When I first starting working at Genuine Interactive, I asked a random question of Genuine's many web-gurus, who know infinitely more about web development than I do. The particular guru I queried was a Lithuanian MySQL database programmer named Jimbo, who in addition to having a penchant for quoting from the movie The Hunt for Red October, often relates to me, in his thick Russian accent, stories of what life was like in Lithuania.
