Archive for the 'Books' Category


The Age Of Miracles

I could not put this book down. Do you know this album by Supertramp, "Crime Of The Century"? This was long before they had their hits, before they started singing about having kippers for breakfast. As a matter of fact, this was only their second record, and the first was not really the same band, […]

The Power Of One

Now that Steve Jobs is dead, are we going to enter the dark ages of user interfaces? Pick up an Apple product. Usability is intuitive. You don’t need to employ a manual, it just works. But even though Apple has been making products like this for over a decade, no other company has mastered this […]

Making Rumours

What if I told you this book was full of tech talk, read like a manual and was filled with arcane details…would you read it anyway? I DID! Ken Caillat was smart enough to get a cowriter, unlike Carole King. And he’s not afraid to sling shit, some of the stories about Lindsey Buckingham will […]

Wild

"There was no way I was going to keep my pants on with a man who’d seen Michelle Shocked three times." And that’s why I read the book, that quote right there, excerpted in a review in the "New York Times". I’ll admit I was interested because of the adventure angle, young twentysomething decides to […]