Amazon gave me 25% discount This is not first time I get discount from Amazon, I got one or two vouchers worth 5 EURO or so before, but this time it total rocked, a total discount on 25% on ALL books I order. This is just because I live in Switzerland and am ordering from […]
Book review: His Dark Materials 2 and 3 (The Subtle Knife) (The Amber Spyglass)
This is not a review nor does it contain any spoilers. Actually, I will not even call it a review as I do not go into details of the books or the story. I wrote a while back about my experience with reading and then watching “The Golden Compass” (See my post about this) as […]
The Golden Compass: Movie vs Book
2008-01-13: Updated: Thanks to the comment from Rach who made me look into the real title of the book. I mentioned earlier that it was change from Northern Lights into The Golden Compass when it became a movie. This I found out is not correct, I went to the authors website (Philip Pullman) and interesting […]
Amazon Kindle, amazing and impossible for me to get
There have been written a lot about Amazon Kindlebut it was first today I got around to checking it out myself. What I mean with ‘checking it out’ was not checking the hardware itself but reading about it on Amazon’s Kindle web site. So don’t consider this been a real review of the Kindle as […]
I’m going to get SO rich now
I just can’t believe it; I’m going to get SO rich. Already doing my shopping list: Two Apple 30″ screens, iPod Ultra Nano Touch, PS3, 52″ HDTV screen, surround set, extra car.. Hell why not also a house with pool. I mean, with $30.000 pr month it should be possible. Of course this is not […]
Great books I read this year
I have just posted a Hub on HubPages where I wrote about some of the books I read this year. These are: The Wiz Biz and Wiz Biz II by Rick Cook Pushing Ice by Alastair Reynolds The Swarm by Frank Schätzing The Black Magician Trilogy by Trudi Canavan Age of the Five Trilogy by […]
Book review: Code Craft: The Practice of Writing Excelent Code (By Daniel Klein)
Daniel Klein recently did a very good review of the book “Code Craft: The Practice of Writing Excelent Code” by Pete Goodliffe. He blogged about this where he also includes a link to the full review on Javelobby.org (Don’t worry the book is not about Java). So if you are a programmer / software engineer […]