Monthly Archives: December 2008

Light

I recently started using an incandescent light bulb in my room instead of our normal fluorescent lights—it’s much better on the eyes, especially when I’m reading. I feel guilty about wasting power though; I think newer CFLs provide warm light, will have to get one.

New books ordered

Jim Butcher

Fool Moon [The Dresden Files 02]
Grave Peril [The Dresden Files 03]
Summer Knight [The Dresden Files 04]
Death Masks [The Dresden Files 05]

Neal Stephenson

The Confusion [Baroque Cycle 02]
The System of the World [Baroque Cycle 03]

Caitlin Sweet

A Telling of Stars

Rob Kutner

Apocalypse How: Turn the End-Times into the Best of Times!

C. J. Cherryh

The Faded Sun Trilogy: [...]

Stephenson’s Quicksilver

Social Networks

(A rambling, non-linear post.)

As I keep mentioning, I have a hate-hate relationship with social networks. Twitter seems to be the only exception till-date; every other site has me running for the hills.

That said, I have accounts in LinkedIn, Orkut and Facebook. I got suckered into creating an Orkut account, as all my friends were on [...]

Amazon rocks

I placed an order for two books (Caine Black Knife and Toll of Hounds) from Amazon.com way back in July. The estimated delivery date was November 20 (these were pre-order items). The first surprise was that I got a discount of $2.80 after my order was placed: Amazon guarantees the lowest price on pre-ordered books, [...]