Indigo does a BOOKface
Indigo’s Community - where Canadians booklovers connect!
Chapters.Indigo.ca has just unveiled its community social networking site. Think of it as a niche Facebook for books, DVDs, and music in Canada. Overall user experience is good, with unobtrusive AJAX making data input clean. An honourable mention goes to respecting privacy, asking for only an […]
Maven or monkey?
So I’ve been doing a lot of reading of late, trying to improve on my preparation to really contribute to society. (Luck/Success = Preparation + Opportunity) I have an enormous (but self-under-valued) skill set in my field of study (Software Engineering –that is, use of software to solve engineering problems–), little of which I […]
If you are an entrepreneur
then go read this - ChangeThis Newsletter: The Bootstrapper’s Bible
that is all.. start reading…
you’d better be reading by now.
The Entrepreneur’s Handbook
I had the opportunity to see Leonard Brody speak at the OCE’s Discovery 2006. Brody is a technology entrepreneur that gets the new media, and has proven he knows what it takes to start and grow a seccessful new economy business. He is also and excellent public speaker, captivating the crowd at […]
Book Wishlist
Here are some interesting books that I would like to read in the near future:
Engines of Creation from Eric Drexler.
Family Based Software Engineering by David Weiss.
Automated Theorem Proving in Software Engineering by Schumann Johann.
While I’m on the topics of books, how about an iBook?
S.W.A.T
Special Weapons and Tactics. S.W.A.T was full of them. Starring Samuel L. Jackson, Colin Farrell, and James Todd Smith.
Jim Street (Farrell) gets booted from S.W.A.T because of his partner’s cowboy actions after shooting a hostage. He works hard in “The Cage” and gets noticed by Hondo (Jackson) who was brought back to […]
Can you bend it?
BILB was a refreshing change from your typicial ameraican film. Unlike any usa comedy these days there was no gratuitous sex sceen, and most importantly no mind numbing jokes.