Waking up and then moving a whole bunch of stuff is not an ideal way to start the day. It's not even 8:30am and I feel tired. At least everything is operational again, For a number of hours from yesterday afternoon, we were essentially offline with not even the house phone nor DSL connected.
Used the opportunity to vacuum the cooler fins inside the Quad G5 - it was truely impressive how much dirt had collected there - amazing that the machine did not suffer badly from overheating problems.
26 February 2008
05 February 2008
The sorry state of computing literature
While I was browsing a Borders yesterday evening, a revelation came upon me as to an analogy for the computer book situation:
Imagine in a bookshop that there is a "Food" section where there are hundreds, perhaps thousands, of books, all quite clearly divided into sections:
Dozens of sections about food... yet none of them actually tell you how to make anything. No ingredients. No recipes.
That is the state of the majority of computer books and computing magazines today.
Imagine in a bookshop that there is a "Food" section where there are hundreds, perhaps thousands, of books, all quite clearly divided into sections:
- How to eat Pizza
- How to eat quiche
- How to eat soup
- Serving food
- Table settings
- The Art of Plating
- Slicing Turkey
- Serving Pie
- Reheating Dinners
Dozens of sections about food... yet none of them actually tell you how to make anything. No ingredients. No recipes.
That is the state of the majority of computer books and computing magazines today.
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