Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition
Meyer, Eric A.
Worthy of all the praise it has gotten around the web. Together with …. this is a must have book if you do any sort of web design at all. Even for someone like me who’s only a web designer at the fringe of my other [...]
Eric Meyer on CSS: Mastering the Language of Web Design
Eric A. Meyer
While it’s been on my shelf for a while, I didn’t get around to this until this spring when I was tweaking my blog design and trying to migrate away from the default table-based designs of Radio toward more use of CSS and style-based [...]
Window Seat: Reading the Landscape from the Air
Dicum, Gregory
My travel preference is to book the window seat as a general rule. If you’ve been opting for the aisle seat, this book could change your mind. While I’ve always enjoyed picking out what I could figure out on my own, this book gives me a whole [...]
Microsoft OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Carter, Todd W.
A useful quickstart to using OneNote, particularly given that you’re likely to get OneNote without a manual. Like most of these “manual replacement” books, the emphasis is on walking you through all the menus and options. What it doesn’t provide is much in the way of [...]
Online! The Book
Dvorak, John C. and Chris Pirillo.
OK for relative beginners, which is its target audience. On the other hand, not really up to the quality I would expect from Dvorak and Pirillo based on their other work.
I confess that Wolfram’s New Kind of Science has been gathering dust on one of my shelves. But it continues to intrigue me. Here’s some material courtesy of David Weinberger that may help when I do get around to finally reading it.
Wolfram explained. I just came across a Forbes article by Michael S. Malone, dated [...]
Appropriate enough given that Fuller was doing hypertext before any of us had a term for it.
Synergetics Online.
One of my prized possessions is my copy of Synergetics by Buckminster Fuller. Well, I happened to browse to the Buckminster Fuller Institute which has a link to a an online version of the text of the book. [...]
The Hypertext Declaration of Independence. [Privacy Digest]
The Chronoliths
Wilson, Robert Charles
I finished this quite a bit earlier in the year, but only now have had time to catch up and document the fact. A different take on the time travel theme. I didn’t find the main characters especially appealing, but I did stay with the story and did decide it was worth [...]
The Zenith Angle
Sterling, Bruce
Sterling tries his hand at a bridge between techno-thriller and social satire. Sometimes it works really well, other times not. I certainly raced through it; so it succeeds on the techno-thriller aspect quite well. On the social satire/social commentary, I think the results are more mixed. Some of it is very funny, [...]
