I am currently reading a fascinating book: Colonel Barker’s Monstrous Regiment. The much used title refers to a 16th century work by John Knox called “The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women“. The work was a blast against female rule – sovereigns – and has been borrowed for a number [...]
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Linux Kernel in a Nutshell
Just spotted by me on LinuxQuestions.org via the LXer feeds: the O’Reilly book “Linux Kernel in a Nutshell” is available for free download as a PDF from the official site. Go to http://www.kroah.com/lkn/ to download it. Many Linux users will already have this, but for those who don’t, it’s free in either it’s totality or [...]
Librarything.com
I have a huge number of books at home and for a long time I’ve been looking for a way to catalogue them all. Normally, I would use something like Tellico (as a Linux/KDE user), but that gives the problem that I have to remember to save my files before I rebuild a PC. It’s [...]
Google Books Goes Live
The much awaited and complained about Google Books appears to have gone live, says The Register. This is a service which will allow you to earch for books and, if they are public domain, download them in PDF format. Which is nice. For those who use Google (and who amongst us can say they don’t?), [...]
More Desirable Versions Of Existing Things
Thanks again to The Weekly for the title of this post. I’d promised myself that I wouldn’t do this, I hate going to read a post and discovering it to be just a link or links. But I don’t want to discuss this just point you to the blog Proudly Serving My Corporate Masters and [...]
I Like Short Stories
I have always preferred short stories over long novels. Don’t get me wrong, I love reading novels, especially well-paced, well written novels, but I have always preferred the short story. I think it’s because it’s fun to see what the ‘twist’ will be and how the author can develop a handful of characters (at most) [...]
