It has gotten to the point where pretty much every comment I get is spam. I was manually moderating the comments, in addition to employing filters, but I don’t really see the point any longer, so I am turning off … Continue reading
Open Sources by Chris DiBona My rating: 4 of 5 stars This book is for people who like to go back and revisit the early days of Open Source. When this was written, Google didn’t even appear, Yahoo was the … Continue reading
Zero Day by Mark Russinovich My rating: 4 of 5 stars Mark Russinovich is the developer of the Sysinternals suite, and moved to Microsoft when his company was purchased by the Redmond Behemoth. And this matters because this is a … Continue reading
Making Things Happen: Mastering Project Management by Scott Berkun My rating: 5 of 5 stars This is an excellent book for anyone who wants to understand project management on a practical level. The author, Scott Berkun, was a project manager … Continue reading
The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians by Peter Heather My rating: 5 of 5 stars Certain questions are perennial, and one of those is why the Roman Empire fell. Peter Heather provides … Continue reading
Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly about Security in an Uncertain World by Bruce Schneier My rating: 5 of 5 stars Bruce wrote this book in 2003 as a response to 9/11 and how it lead to changes in security practices in … Continue reading
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography by Simon Singh My rating: 5 of 5 stars This book is a very good review of the history on encryption and explains the basic principles involved. … Continue reading
The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal by M. Mitchell Waldrop My rating: 5 of 5 stars Having just read Katie Hafner’s Where Wizard’s Stay Up Late I was ready to tackle this book, which … Continue reading
Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet by Katie Hafner My rating: 5 of 5 stars This is a classic book that sat on my shelf for a while and I just decided to pick it up … Continue reading
In a blog post by Julie Crisp of Tor Books UK, we get a progress report on the decision to drop DRM from their e-books. The big take-aways are: There was no increase in piracy of their books from removing … Continue reading
