So I have a load of books and I’m not sure what ones I should read next…
Heres my list:
House of Leaves
Linked – The Science of New Networks
Comeback by Richard Stark
A Clash of Kings: Book Two of ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’ (A Song of Ice and Fire)
I have about 12 more but I think I’ve narrowed it down to the choices above.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time I read this book going over to the UK on Monday. Great book. Great read. Very interesting idea. I highly recommend it.
“Systema is a realistic combat style of fighting with real-life, rather than sport, application. It involves a unique, high speed, elliptical open-hand striking system, kicking, and defense on the ground. Unlike many Asian styles, Systema has no predetermined fighting stances, but teaches you to defend yourself against attackers from any position. In addition, students are trained in the use and disarming of weapons, improvised weapons, as well as combat in non-traditional situations such as fighting from a chair or while in a car. Other courses in knife throwing, shovel fighting, executive protection and women’s sex assault defense are also taught by Russian trained experts. “
For those that want to come across as clever and big, why not have a resource like dictionary.com where you input a word and the website will spit back a bigger word which means the same thing.
I know lots of people that take forever to post on website while they search for that big word. This would allow them to post quicker and make the web run faster and fill it with the thoughts of idiots more efficiently. Meow. Saucer of milk for table 666.
karlins got her new site up and running and has enabled trackback too. Why am I caring ? Shouldn’t I not get excited and go off and read the Sunday World and complain about immigrants or something ? I’m slipping into geekdom. I wonder what circle I’m at Geek Dante Inferno wise ?
Oh yeah , Karlins been talking about Bloggers meeting up again. Not a bad idear that. I can’t make August but I can make Sept.
Added William Gibson and Donncha O’Caoimh to my aggregator too.
Donncha has an interesting link to to a piece on how to communicate with your manager. Or is it a link to an interesting piece ….
Wifi Networking News mentions a Boston Globe Article on Wireless Hot Zones payed for by a bunch of businesses in one area.
Makes sense really that a bunch of businesses would get together and sponsor/pay for a wireless hot spot or hot zone. Its a good way of getting people to come in. Kinda like the way they have stores validate your parking (although thats not a common practice in Ireland).
For places like Paul Street in Cork with pubs and cafes it would be a great idea to get people into your area. What happens though when every area starts offering this ? They’ll have to offer something extra right ? Or will being first to offer it allow you to get ahed of the competition enough that they can’t catch up.
Saying that, theres not enough areas in Cork as it is where you can sit out and enjoy a cup of coffee or a pint although thats begining to change and as Cork City Centre becomes more pedestrianised we mght see more of it.
Reading stuff from Joi always does the woods from trees thingy for me. One of his latest posts on how social software should be created/used to make life better for us is great. He mentioned Maslows Hierachy Of Needs in his post. I had never heard of Maslow before and now I do. Blogs are really educating me but theres too much information to handle. Firing up my news aggregator daily now I could easily spend four hours going through the content and following links and learning about new things. These four hours could have been spent doing other things, but would they have been worth it ?
What I’m finding now is that I’m using my own blog to post links to interesting things online and only half reading them with the intention of following the links on my blog when I have a spare moment and going through them properly. I guess my blog is my own to do list but its not really organised.
Oh and have a look at the comments after the post from Joi. Seriously intelligent people with great viewpoints. Wow. I’m blessed I can read all their views for free from my nice comfy seat in Cork.
I don’t know everything about my own City, my own County or my own Country. I can barely name the 32 counties that comprise Ireland. I certainly can’t tell you which counties are in which province and I don’t know the location in the country of a lot of the counties.
Time to go back to primary school and attend some Geography classes. While I’m at it I’d better so some History too. Here I am surfing the net and reading all this global stuff and I can’t even tell you about my local environs. Sad and shameful.
To be added to my todo list.
Bill Kearney is making sense here about Online Identities and Personas. Myself and Fixer have been saying pretty much the same thing as well in our usual bouncing ideas off each other type conversations.
Anyway this little post is really a way of seeing do I undertand the whole trackback idea.