Saturday, 4 November 2006

What I have been reading these days

It’s November! Two more month to the new year, and blogging here has also been winding down. I’ve got back to reading books on the bus again, as I found it better use of time than reading SMH, new feed items or listening to podcasts. Anyway, these are the books that I have been reading, although [...]

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Tuesday, 12 September 2006

Buying Technical Books in Australia

Just bought a programming related book on-line. It was released in Q2 2006 so I did not consider the second hand book market. I went straight to the oracle asking where can I find it in on-line bookshops in Australia. Only a handful of shops returned, and LSL Australia is around $10 cheaper than the big [...]

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Wednesday, 12 October 2005

The Babel Fish

Douglas Adams said in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy about the origin of the “Babel Fish”.

Sunday, 28 November 2004

Spurgeon, A New Biography

For the last week and half, my commute time reading has been Spurgeon A New Biography by Arnold Dallimore. It is, as the title has suggested, a biography of Charles H. Spurgeon, a famous English evangelical baptist minister in the 19th century. Like a biography, it started with Spurgeon’s life from birth, looked at [...]