Sep
16
Hamlet’s Blackberry-Why Paper Is Eternal
September 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Hamlet’s Blackberry-Why Paper Is Eternal
Jun
26
Course: Edward Tufte, Presenting Data and Information
June 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Karin from work and I attended a one-day course, Presenting Data and Information, by Edward Tufte at the Hyatt Regency Chicago. I had read some of his stuff a year or two earlier, tried to go to the Chicago course, and our crack clerical staff missed the deadline and it was full. So here we […]
Mar
24
Sanibel 2008 – Fun with Sam and Karin
March 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Friday 21 March Barely beat the snow closings out of MKE airport. Arrived on time in Ft Myers. Karin and Sam were at the Twins game. We stopped at the “used food store” (Dixie’s Discounted Wine) on Bonita Beach Rd just east of US 41 for some wine and discount food. Then we had to […]
Oct
26
Book Review: Object Oriented I/O using C++ IOSTREAMS
October 26, 2003 | Leave a Comment
Hughes, Cameron and Thomas Hamilton and Tracey Hughes. 1995. Object Oriented I/O using C++ IOSTREAMS. John Wiley and Sons, New York, New York. ISBN 0-471-11809-5. Order… Two halves of a book here. First is a good explanation of the IOSTREAMs package although a lot of it doesn’t seem to be more detailed than the Visual […]
Oct
26
Book Review: Internetworking with TCP/IP
October 26, 2003 | Leave a Comment
Comer, Douglas E. 1995. Internetworking with TCP/IP; Volume 1: Principles, Protocols, and Architecture. Third Edition. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall. ISBN 0-13-215987-8. Order… A detailed look at the transport of the Internet. As one who spent days configuring an NT server into a multihomed host using subnetting, a lot of the information is […]
Oct
26
Book Review: Miracle Under the Oaks
October 26, 2003 | Leave a Comment
Stevens, William K. 1995. Miracle Under the Oaks. New York, New York: Pocket Books. ISBN 0-671-78042-5 A discussion of the growing prairie and savanna restoration movement in Illinois and a view of the work of Steve Packard, a major force in the grassroots restoration movement. Very interesting to me since I worked on a prairie […]
Oct
26
Book Review: The Dilbert Principle
October 26, 2003 | Leave a Comment
Adams, Scott. 1996. The Dilbert Principle, A Cubicle’s Eye View of Bosses, Meetings, Management Fads and other Workplace Afflictions. New York, New York: HarperCollins. ISBN 0-88370-787-6 Pretty Funny. The obvious assortment of Dilbert cartoons and email from hapless fans illustrate foibles in the modern re-engineered business world. The final chapter on the OA5 Corp ( […]
Oct
26
Book Review: Designing and Using ActiveX Controls
October 26, 2002 | Leave a Comment
Armstrong, Tom. 1997. Designing and Using ActiveX Controls. New York, New York: M&T Books. ISBN 1-55851-503-8. Order… Excellent look at creating and implementing ActiveX controls. With CD-ROM. If you do controls or want to do controls, you need to go to Amazon.com and get this book now!