Category Archives: Books

What I’ve been reading. Simple as that.

Amazon Kindle 3G – initial impressions

On Tuesday my Amazon Kindle 3G + Wi-Fi arrived. And there was much rejoicing. Why I bought a Kindle For a few years now I’ve wanted an eBook reader to make my growing collection of geeky books in PDF more … Continue reading

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Burning to get my hands on an Amazon Kindle 3G

Probably like a lot of people of the geek persuasion, I have a lot of e-books: articles, books, cheatsheets, leaflets, manuals. I have e-books about CSS, design, Flash, HTML, JavaScript, jQuery, microformats, MySQL, PHP, regular expressions, RSS, servers, WordPress, XML … Continue reading

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I’m now five-shelves of books lighter

Okay, so whose bright idea was it to try to simplify life a little and get rid of books that I haven’t even opened in years?! In the end, this afternoon I cleared out five shelves-worth of books which will … Continue reading

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Transcending CSS

Transcending CSS: the fine art of web design by Andy Clarke is one of the best books about cascading style sheets (CSS) that I’ve read in a long time. As a designer Andy Clarke has produced a book that’s far … Continue reading

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The Present Future

While reading around the subject of Jesus saying: “You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of earth and sky, but why do you not know how to interpret the present time?” (Luke 12: 56) I picked up this … Continue reading

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I think I’m in a Douglas Coupland novel …

Last night I began to wonder if I really am an autonomous, free-thinking human-being and not just the creation of a 20th/21st-century literary genius. Yesterday, late-afternoon, a few minutes before five, I checked my email. There was one from our … Continue reading

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Books of choice

One of my friends, Kenny, always teases me that no matter where I go my desk always looks the same; in other words, it is always laid out the same way. And he’s right, but there’s a good reason for … Continue reading

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