It’s been nearly 5 years since the last redesign of my blog. Time to change it again. This time a lot of things change. Naturally the design is the most apparent change. It’s very minimalistic now. There are no images in the header and the footer and no boxes around the individual posts. I’m using [...]
The Mongoliad is Neal Stephenson’s new book project and it fits perfectly in with his most recent books – the Baroque Cycle and Anathem. So if you liked those books you’ll like this one, too. As the title – The Mongoliad – suggests mongols play an important role in this book. It’s 1241 and the [...]
The iPad is a great device for reading ebooks. The bigger screen is a big advantage over the smaller screen of the iPhone. On the iPhone I always used a small font and small margins to get as much text as possible on the screen. It worked pretty well, but it looked a bit crowded. [...]
When I first read about this book, I thought that there must be some typo in the title. Surely it should be “Rainbow’s End”, shouldn’t it? We all have read stories about rainbows’ ends and all the wealth that awaits there. So it was a natural reaction to assume that this book by Vernor Vinge [...]