The Linux Command Line: A Complete Introduction by William Shotts jr is as complete as you might desire/imagine and delivers much more than it promises. This is simply the most fun, yet strikingly comprehensive, introduction to Linux that you could…
If there was ever a product needing a manual, frankly it’s Google Plus. It remains a rather obtuse beast – at least to my way of seeing things. Google Plus: The Missing Manual attempts to remedy this by providing a…
Head First by Jeff Siarto is one of a superb series of Head First books that adopt a visual approach to teaching. This particular volume is very well done and offers a deeply basic introduction to setting up, configuring and…
The subtitle ‘Bringing Location to Web Applications’ is particularly apt to this thorough and useful volume. In HTML5 Geolocation Anthony Holdener takes a programmatic approach through the full cycle, exploring the nature of the location, the technicalities of geolocation and…
Gamestorming by Gray, Brown and Macanufo has the slugline ‘A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers and Changemakers’ and it lives up to its rather lofty ambitions by providing solid and systemised routines that can be implemented to create an environment for…
Am participating in the Day of Digital Humanities organised by Peter Organisciak, Geoffrey Rockwell, and Stan Rueker. Check it out.
I made a few quick references to the mode by which I transfer my long and lat data to Google Earth for route display. I was asked whether I was capturing altitude information along with 2D position and the answer…
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As I read through my RSS feeds in Google Reader today, I was once again struck by the increasing number of familiar headlines. By this I don’t mean similar themes continue to be explored (although true – Hilary is clearly…
Susan Nance, professor of US history at the University of Guelph, presented a fascinating paper “A Star is Born to Buck: On the Development of Rodeo Bulls in the 1990s” at the Rural History Roundtable today. Although Nance’s past work…
In my continuing effort to direct you away from my blog, I am compelled to note Bill Turkel’s follow-up to a post I referenced last week. In this one he ponders our conscious creation of “islands of stasis” and why…
My apologies if this sounded like I was challenging Jared Diamond to a wordoff 😉 Michele just pointed me to wonderfully candid article explaining why office workers should appreciate their surroundings and pity the poor fools that consider the coffee…