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This has been an enlightening experience for me. The first day, was terrifying. Everything about it, getting up early, getting there a few minutes late, taking flack from the T about the lateness. Then when the Terrorist left... Oh, Jesus. That was the worst part. The day, DRAGGED. That was by far...
In moods veering between manic intensity and deadening numbness, Roddy Doyle’s alcoholic, abused narrator Paula Spencer keeps us hanging onto her roller-coaster life. Her harsh language calls up a tough girlhood in which “you were a slut or a tight bitch, one or the other, if you were a...
Have you been in a relationship that failed? Do you plan to one day been in a relationship that lasts? Are you currently in a relationship that you would like to keep alive for quite some time...or forever? Here's a handy book for every male and female interested in keeping relationships healthy,...
Okay I mentioned yestarday that I went to the library and got a few health/fitness books. Well I pretty much finished the first one, no I didn't read it cover to cover, but that's not the nature of this book. Yesterday I briefly talked about some of the opening chapters. Well now having gone from...
If you could, which film would you un-watch or which book would you un-read? Submitted by Kate. Susan Hill's Mrs deWinter, which was supposed to be a sequel to Daphne Du Maurier's Rebecca, was utter crap. On a scale of one to five, it gets a negative 20. If you appreciated the masterpiece that was...
Yes, we have progress today. I started at 6421 words today and ended up with 8894. I love progress. I wrote rough drafts of two chapters and worked on a major chunk of outline from the third section. I like to see that word count number going up. I'm a little curious how high it will go. I don't...
I am really excited about this book. Like i told you guys, my sweetie and i plan on moving in together next spring. In order to prep for that housewarming party i know i am going to eventually have, i purchased this great book to get me started. It’s full of great ideas and entertaining...
Fortune's Daughter is one of the most annoying books I've ever read, and I'm not even sure where to start. With Hoffman's tiresome overuse of the color blue, which she applies to birds, dogs, hands, babies, and anything else she deems symbolic? Her repetition, wordiness, indulgence (or my own...
Listen to this AudiobookBiography of Andrew Murray Table of Contents Preface I. Obedience: Its place In Holy Scripture II. The Obedience of Christ III. The Secret of True Obedience IV. The Morning Watch in the Life of Obedience Note on the Morning Watch V. The Entrance to the Life of Full Obedience...
3.3 Finding the where in here: getting back, starting in the middle and other snapshots in time The Back button is a notoriously sticky issue with some RIAs, particularly Flash- or plugin-based ones, but it’s really only one part of the story. The deeper issue is deep-linking, or how to take a...
3.2 Embracing the desktop: the new old paradigms I have given a lot of space so far to browser paradigms and user expectations of them. Interaction paradigms can also come from the desktop, by which I mean both the operating system and also client-side applications such as Microsoft Word, Adobe...
For as long as most of us have been using the internet, the way to view online content has been through a browser. The browser is its own application that has its own controls, standards, and behaviors that users now take for granted and employ almost unconsciously. Because of this, one of the most...
2.2 Creating a Flow Flow as defined by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, identifies the state in which one ceases to think, but merely do, becoming so involved in and focused on an activity that everything else falls away. One can achieve flow reading a book, playing chess, running a marathon, painting a...
I have talked about the inherent differences between traditional HTML sites and rich internet applications, but what may not be completely obvious is the different mindset required from the designer and the need for a different holistic approach to designing the user experience. HTML thinking...
I'd been wondering what all the fuss was about concerning Salman Rushdie. Lately I found The Moor's Last Sigh. Ah, now I see what his fundamentalist critics were upset about--the man has a brilliant, in fact scintillating & boundless sense of satire (& just plain bawdy humor), writing in the most...
Currently Reading Charming Billy By Alice McDermott see related I just finished reading Alice McDermott's novel, Charming Billy, and it affected me profoundly. As I was finishing it, I was literally weeping. Not because the main character, Billy, has died (the novel begins at his wake and goes...
Currently Reading Memento Mori By Muriel Spark see related I just finished a brilliant book by Muriel Spark, Memento Mori, which in Latin means "Remember that you must die." It's a funny, terse look at mortality* as seen by a group of elderly people living in London just after WWII. It would make a...
Currently Reading The Way We Make Sense By Dawn Karima Pettigrew see related Hollywood endings--two mini reviews Here's my personal preference when it comes to movies, stories, novels, etc.: I don't like happy endings. They almost always seem contrived & are chock full of convenient coincidences....
Currently Reading Montana 1948: A Novel By Larry Watson see related Ethics & complexity I just finished reading Larry Watson's Montana 1948, a brilliant, tightly written novel about a boy's growing up suddenly in the summer of 1848 in a small town in Montana. I don't know if I've ever read such a...
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