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My reading materials come from all directions. I still prefer print on paper, so subscribe to a (large) number of technical industry magazines. In addition, I browse the technical and marketing sections of my local book stores fairly frequently and tend to pick up at least one book a month. In the realm of general technology I tend to pick up Scientific American, Popular Science, even Popular Mechanics and other similar publications whenever I travel. Recently this has meant that I've been pretty much up to date on all the more popular ones. Online, I subscribe to a number of mail lists and digests, and participate in several of them as time and topic permit. Historically, I've been a reader of good ol' traditional Sci-Fi - lots of Heinlein, Asimov, Clarke and more recently, Spider Robinson. Not much fantasy (although I read the Ring Trilogy and loved it - and re-read it recently and went to the new film and loved it and want to see the rest as soon as they come out). I've read at least one set of David Eddings books and enjoyed them, although they didn't make me go out and buy more. |
Some of you returning to this page will note that I no longer have a list of favourite links and resources. The reason for this is that I have become convinced that the search engines now available (July 2002 as I write this), especially www.google.com are more than adequate in finding out what the latest information is about any particular subject the reader might consider interesting. This is amply backed up by what seems to be an ever increasing answer post to questions in various Usenet News groups which is along the lines of:
"Search engine broken? Here, use mine" with a URL complete with search functions and key words already filled in, somewhat like:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=search+engines
Thus, I can truly say - my resource list is at www.google.com
On the other hand, you will find links to specific resources in the various pages and articles I write - enjoy.