Archive for February, 2007

The Ice Age is Coming to an End!

No, this is not another blog entry about global warming.
After a couple of weeks of rather frosty weather and treacherously iced sidewalks, things are warming up here in Boston. It has been sunny and in the mid to high 30s for the last couple of days. Most of the ice on […]

Tim Powers - Three Days to Never

I have enjoyed the last couple of Tim Powers books that I read - Declare and On Stranger Tides - so I decided to Amazon his latest one in hard cover - Three Days to Never: A Novel.
It is not his best effort. Powers works really hard to set up some interesting time […]

Night Watch - The Book is Much Better than the Movie

I have made an effort and done some more reading lately. Nothing too strenuous, but still more than nothing (and perhaps a little less tv).
I had seen Sergei Lukyanenko’s Night Watch: A Novel highlighted in the Harvard Book Store’s employee recommended section, so I picked up a copy.
I was a bit worried. […]

A Few Notes on Austin, Texas

I spent the early part of the week in Austin, Texas for a work trip. I was talking to college students about the product I work on. The talk went just ok as I forgot my notes in the hotel room - “Sometimes you eat the bar, and sometimes, well, he eats you“.
Austin […]