Feeling: sleepyThe phrase “JavaScriptmaster” and Douglas Crockford are considered synonymous in the web development world. When I heard that Crockford was writing a book on JavaScript, especially a guide to the better features of one of the most maligned (and perhaps abused) but popular languages in the current web development industry, I was sure I wanted [...]
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Book Review: Javascript: The Good Parts by Douglas Crockford
November 9th, 2008 2 Comments
Tags: book reviews · Books · Computer programming · Douglas Crockford · javascript · JavaScript: The Good Parts · JSON · Programming · Programming language · Review · web development
Book Review: Core Memory: A Visual Survey of Vintage Computers
August 1st, 2008 4 Comments
Feeling: sleepyRemember your high school computer theory class? References to the “ancient” (in computer innovation time) machines which utilized vacuum tubes, drum memories, ferrite rings? Remember ENIAC, UNIVAC, EDVAC etc? If these terms bring back nostalgic memories of your high school computer course and the thoughts imagining what these machines looked like, then Core Memory is [...]
Tags: book · Computers · core memory · edvac · eniac · history · imac · pc · photographs · Photography · Review · univac · vacuum tube · z3
Book Review: A Lifetime of Secrets: A PostSecret Book by Frank Warren
July 25th, 2008 6 Comments
I have secrets. So do you and everyone else. We keep secrets out of embarrassment, fear of hurting others or importantly hurting ourselves. But a lot of times we keep secrets because we just do not know how to express our feelings – elation, hurt, sadness, love. The liberating effect of letting a secret out [...]
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Brilliantly dark – Movie Review: The Dark Knight
July 19th, 2008 2 Comments
Feeling: enthralled Some people are going to go watch The Dark Knight at 3 AM in the morning. Not me cos I just finished watching it. My thoughts on The Dark Knight below (Warning: Definite spoilers)
Tags: batman · batman begins · bruce wayne · christian bale · gary oldman · harvey dent · heath ledger · Movie · movie review · Movies · Review · the dark knight · the joker · two face
Book Review: Crecent Garden
February 20th, 2008 Comments Off
Crescent Garden is written by Christopher Love and is the first book published by Evermore Books. As the tag line says, “A novel of New Orleans, the book is set entirely in New Orleans. Love creates a very tightly written book with the story taking place over 3 days just before Mardi Gras in New [...]
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How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild and Got a life – A Review
May 15th, 2006 2 Comments
Feeling: sleepy Listening to: Eminem – Big WeenieAnd how Kavya Viswanathan got busted and got dissed (lol could not resist that ) Oh well, when I’d first seen the book, just as it was released, I thought it seemed like a pretty neat book. I mean a good idea, probably well written and a good storyline. But I [...]
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Doom – The Movie, A review
January 23rd, 2006 Comments Off
Feeling: sleepy Listening to: Trapt – HeadstrongI finally got to watch Doom – The movie. And I liked the movie. The movie, surprisingly is pretty good at what it aims for. An emulation of the super hit game Doom. Maybe I liked it cos it was far better than some of the previous “video game” based movies I [...]
Tags: Doom · Movie · Review · Video-Game-Movie