Reviews
Peek inside the Audio Video Membership site…
Thursday, March 29th, 2007I recently told you about Jason James new site that shows you how to create, edit, and publish your own audios and videos to the Internet. He even shows you how to make sure lots of people see your videos and gives you an easy way to count the views.
I made a short video (one […]
Popularity: 14%
How to Lie with Statistics…
Monday, January 1st, 2007Originally printed in 1954 and now into its umpteen jillionth printing, this timeless classic was reminded to us by TNPCer Mike L. Mark Twain once said there are “lies,” “damned lies,” and “statistics.” This is the book that lays out how facts with figures can be used to pull the wool over your eyes and […]
Popularity: 22%
Essential Perl 5 For Web Professionals
Sunday, December 3rd, 2006Essential Perl 5 for Web Professionals by Micah Brown, Chris Bellew, and Dan Livingston. Published by Prentice Hall.
This small book aims to get you up to speed on using Perl in the context of a web site. It does not assume a prior knowledge of Perl. With this book you could get some simple CGI […]
Popularity: 14%
Time Management for System Administrators by Thomas A.Limoncelli
Thursday, August 24th, 2006Seeing the words System Administration in the title of this book
may scare some of you off. I believe System Administration
encompasses many types of jobs today. At the core System
Administrators have a set of routine tasks that must be done
daily, weekly, monthly and at the same time have *many*
interruptions and fires to put out. Does this […]
Popularity: 21%
Review: The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook
Saturday, May 27th, 2006Your health is so important and yet easy to overlook when
working. Especially with computers. I personally changed to a
different computer mouse years ago because of the way
traditional mouses caused me to hold my hand. It wasn’t painful
for me physically but it was affecting my hobby - sleight-of-
hand. So I changed and never looked back.
This week […]
Popularity: 30%
PGP and GPG - Email for the Practical Paranoid - Review
Wednesday, May 17th, 2006This week I am reading PGP & GPG - email for the practical paranoid by Michael W. Lucas.
PGP is short for “Pretty Good Privacy.” It is a military grade encryption technology for protecting data and is defined by the The OpenPGP standard. The two most popular programs that implement OpenPGP are PGP (commercial software) […]
Popularity: 16%
How To Read A Book - Mortimer J. Adler
Friday, March 31st, 2006I recently found myself discussing and recommending How to Read
A Book by Mortimer Adler. I keep coming back to that book since
it had a such a large impact on my life. In a nutshell the book
shows you how to read a book and extract the meaning inside of
it. Obviously, this doesn’t have to apply only […]
Popularity: 39%
Language in Thought and Action - S.I. Hayakawa
Friday, March 31st, 2006Last issue I recommended How To Read a Book and it was well
received. Some readers said they would be more interested in a
book that talks about the comprehension and pulling meaning from
current documents. I agree that is a valuable skill. One of my
favorite books in this regard is Language in Thought and
Action by S.I. Hayakawa.
This […]
Popularity: 15%
A Guide for the Advanced Soul
Thursday, January 19th, 2006I picked up a copy of A Guide for the Advanced Soul by Susan Hayword:
I found the quotes to be helpful. The basic premise of this book is you ask a question then open the book randomly. The quote on the page you open to is supposed to be relevent to your question.
Does this work? […]
Popularity: 19%