Bookabooka!
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I'm now sharing these books with fellow students via bookabooka! - a great online service that was recently attacked by the Finnish antipiracy lobby.
Sure, my first edition copy of "Logic and computer design fundamentals" by Mano and Kime is more than twelve years old, but in pristine condition, still perfectly relevant and still recommended reading for the course. Why pay 0 for the shiny 4th edition hardback? Just rent my copy for 1€ per month and you'll pass the course. It's doing nothing on my shelf but gather dust, so why not share it. The only thing I need from it is the ASCII character code table, and you know, I've already copied that. Yeah, what a nasty pirate I am.
Other books here:
Computer Networking - A top down approach featuring the internet, Kurose & Ross
Data structures and algorithm analysis in Java, Mark Weiss
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Limits of growth
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This graph was inspired by a book of the same name.
Briefly, humanity has overshot the limits of what is physically and biologically sustainable. That overshoot WILL lead to the collapse of the planetary environment’s ability to support not only our species but much of the rest of the biosphere if we do not act rapidly and effectively to reduce our footprint. These conclusions provide reasons for both optimism and alarm: optimism because humanity has demonstrated its capacity to act appropriately in one specific instance; and alarm because thirty years have been largely wasted since the consequences of our failing to act were detailed. There is still time but the need to act quickly and effectively is urgent. The authors demonstrate that the most critical areas needing immediate attention are: population; wasteful, inefficient growth; and pollution. They show how attention to all three simultaneously can result in returning the human footprint on the environment to manageable, sustainable size, while sharply reducing the disparity between human well-being and fostering a generous quality-of-life worldwide. Absent this, the prospects are grim indeed.
A quick and easy way to get into this subject is this series of online presentations titled 'Crash Course' : www.chrismartenson.com/crashcourse/chapter-1-three-beliefs
For better (and free information) also see www.neweconomics.org
The hamster movie is great fun!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sqwd_u6HkMo
Oh, and if you'd ever like a graph like this designed by me, get in touch!
Meetup.com Report: The Victoria Bloggerati
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Meetup.com is a free online service that is used to organize meetings of like-minded people in the same city. This week I attended my first two meetups -- the Victoria Graphic Design meetup on Monday, and the Victoria Blogger meetup today.
The Victoria Bloggerati convened after several months of absence, at two tables at Starbucks on Government. I had the great pleasure of meeting up with Todd (), Jodie (), Leon (), and Wil (). I spent most of the evening chatting with Leon, who counts among his many interests his Flickr photoblog () and his many blogs ("I've got too many of them!").
Wil's a veteran blogger who's been at it for a couple of years. He recently moved to beautiful Victoria BC from Portland. We talked a bit about TypePad, WordPress, and some of the other blog systems out there.
It was great to meet Jodie, who is the humorous voice behind www.tryingreallyhard.com. She brought her son Aidan (hope you weren't too bored during the meetup!). Jodie has a bunch of creative ideas, and she will soon be launching a new website, which she's quite excited about.
And I was intrigued to see Todd whip out a Handspring Visor PDA (I had a couple of years of good service from a Visor Neo), and it was great to meet a kindred spirit. We're both big fans of Web 2.0, and of course we had to evangelize RSS and Bloglines (the most convenient RSS reader out there BTW). Todd - we've got to chat more about this stuff!
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