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.
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: [...]
(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 [...]
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, [...]