Category Archives: Books

Then vs. Than

Posted on 2010-07-09 by

Scribd has many online books. I try to read at least one book every week. Starting to read a new book is always fun. The sense of anticipation builds up while the search for a new book is still in … Continue reading →

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Slashdot AC dismisses LOTR in half a sentence or so

Posted on 2008-02-16 by

Sometimes, AC comments in Slashdot are priceless: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=456578&cid=22447110

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Merging should be *this* easy

Posted on 2008-02-05 by

Is merging so easy in your SCM system? $ pwd /home/keramida/hg/mercurial/gker $ hg pull crew pulling from /home/keramida/hg/mercurial/crew searching for changes adding changesets adding manifests adding file changes added 54 changesets with 143 changes to 82 files (+1 heads) (run … Continue reading →

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Reading: Lawrence Lessig, “The Future of Ideas”

Posted on 2008-01-19 by

Through a post by Palm Powered Doctor, I found out about a new book by Lawrence Lessig: The Future of Ideas Neatly typeset, freely available in PDF booklet format, with a very readable font and a cool-looking design, the book … Continue reading →

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“Mayor of Casterbridge” is freely available online

Posted on 2007-10-15 by

One of my all-time favorite books, “The Mayor of Casterbridge” by Thomas Hardy, is available freely online, as part of the “Project Gutenberg” collection of literary works.

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The manual of the LaTeX “memoir” package

Posted on 2007-09-26 by

After a brief encounter with ConTeXt, and lots of fun preparing a typesetting style which a colleague at Bytemobile liked a lot (so much, in fact, that he actually used it to write a mini-guide sitting on my desk), I … Continue reading →

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Free Wireless in Mountain View, by Google

Posted on 2006-08-29 by

As some of you know, I am currently employed as a programmer at the European Development Center of Bytemobile, a company whose HQ is in Mountain View, CA. Earlier this week, I found out that Google has now started its … Continue reading →

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Οι Μύθοι των Οτόρι #3

Posted on 2006-05-13 by

Πριν από ένα χρόνο και λίγο παραπάνω, τον Ιανουάριο του 2005, είχα διαβάσει το πρώτο βιβλίο της τριλογίας των Otori, από την Lian Hearn.

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Somtow’s “Moon Dance”

Posted on 2006-05-11 by

Last night, I finished reading Somtow‘s “Moon Dance“, translated to Greek by Sandi Stathopoulou (published by “Oxy Publications“.

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Secrets and Lies, by Bruce Schneier

Posted on 2006-03-31 by

Secrets and Lies, by Bruce Schneier. Fantastic book. This is one that I’ll probably hand over, recommend, talk about to all those involved in programming that I know. Even to those who are not involved in computer programming, but may … Continue reading →

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