Archive for 'Books'
Google Book Search Article
There is a very good New Yorker article about Google’s Book Search feature. I found this through Michael Geist. As with most New Yorker articles, this is a bit long, but very informative. I highly recommend reading the whole thing if you are at all interested in copyright issues or Google. […]
Posted: January 31st, 2007 under Books, Politics and Law, Technology.
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Book: Blink by Malcom Gladwell
This weekend I finished reading Blink by Malcom Gladwell. I first heard about this book from Bruce Schneier’s writing about it. It’s a fascinating book that was very easy to read. I highly recommend the book to anyone interested in high speed decision making.
In some ways it is difficult to […]
Posted: January 28th, 2007 under Books, Computer Security, Entertainment, Life.
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James H. Ellis..
I recently read Crypto by Steven Levy. While I really enjoyed the whole book, I particularly enjoyed the epilogue. It was extremely well written and organized such that all the things I was scared could happen to be mentioned were avoided.
Essentially, the epilogue is about the folks in the British government who originally […]
Posted: July 1st, 2005 under Books.
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back to school..
I recently bought an iPod. I wasn’t all that sure that I would find it all that usefull at first, but it was an idea that kept growing on me after having bought a PowerBook for Christmas. I am a huge fan of well-engineered devices and having previously used a Compaq Presario 1700T, […]
Posted: April 12th, 2005 under Books, Music, Technology.
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