Just saw the new Resharper 6.1 Early Access version has Async CTP support listed - downloading now... 2 months ago
Quick post about FeedDemon/Pinboard/Save to Pinboard on Android as my choice for Google Reader Sharing http://t.co/EupWQupM3 months ago
FeedDemon+Custom Sharing XML->Pinboard; NewsRob + Save to Pinboard on Android - replacing Google Reader sharing, Reader now just for sync... 3 months ago
Current page for Tyler McMillen - author of the Tucson Bouldering Guide and Tucson Select Sport Climbing, both of which are out-of-print but offered for free from his page.
I have no idea when I first heard a Tribe Called Quest (official site) – but it was the early 2000s before I really ‘found’ them and started listening. I would not call myself a devotee – casual fan is probably the best description – but even as a casual fan I was excited when [...]
I am sad to say that the first time I saw Hull Zero Three by Greg Bear (official site) on Amazon I skipped over it because of the rating – in retrospect a somewhat sad reminder to myself about the value of ratings… Thankfully on the Potpourri of Science Fiction Literature blog I came across [...]
This blog made it thru 2011! A few notes about my media/reading that I thought might be fun if this blogs lasts a few years… -Reading: I am mostly reading on my Sprint Evo 4G Android Phone via the Kindle app. While the reading experience on such a small screen is unexciting the compelling feature [...]
I don’t have a good enough memory or record of what I was reading in the late 1990s or early 2000s to know if this is the truth – but the way I remember it is that after a lull where I had trouble finding any science fiction I was interested in reading I came [...]
I don’t remember seeing Sea of Glass, by Barry B. Longyear, on ‘top’ science fiction lists – or stumbling across it in website recommendations; but I do remember this novel from reading it in (about…) 1990. What I remember is the brutality, terror and a dystopian future world on the brink of war. The novel [...]
I believe I first heard Kevin Volans‘s (homepage) String Quartet No. 2 – ‘Hunting: Gathering’ in the mid-1990s on a Kronos Quartet CD. While I can not say this was immediately one of my favorite pieces, I will say that sounds from and sections of the 2nd String Quartet have stayed with me – coming [...]
Norwegian Wood was not quite what I was expecting – the Murakami novels that I have read – A Wild Sheep Chase, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Dance Dance Dance, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Sputnik Sweetheart, Kafka on the Shore and After Dark – all seem to me to have some place [...]
Cyberpunk! James Strickland delivers the classic elements in Looking Glass – a future United States now carved into different countries, powerful corporations, cyber space, techy jargon, decks, jacking in and action! The strength of this novel is not in offering something insightful and new – but rather in being an intelligent and fascinating rec […]
Dan Chaon gives us a clever plot – with several converging stories – and disturbed characters that work together to create an enjoyable and slightly uncomfortable novel. There were sections that certainly made me think about my own life and identity, but overall I was not quite completely hooked/pulled in. Rating: 3 of 5 First [...]
Running the Sahara – directed by James Moll – follows three athletes as they run across the Sahara Desert. They run (and sometimes walk) thru Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Libya and Egypt. The film does a great job of showing some of the amazing landscapes that they cross – with small glimpses of the people [...]