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July 20, 2010
The Upside of Irrationality
Just ripped through Dan Ariely's latest book; The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home after getting it from the library a couple days ago.
If you haven't read Predictably Irrational, read whichever one you can get from your local library (or bookstore) first.
And then read the other one.
Posted by dberger at 9:27 PM
July 9, 2010
Bitter Seeds
A friend recommended Bitter Seeds, and I remember dismissing the recommendation as a "read later." What I don't remember is putting it on my library hold queue, so I was surprised when I got an email from KCLS saying it was waiting for pickup.
I was in the middle of trying again to make it through the first few chapters of Piracy (spoiler: I gave up), and figured some fiction was a great way to cheat on a book that made the Sahara seem positively damp.
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Posted by dberger at 8:27 AM
July 1, 2010
A Week With an Android
After determining that the iPhone is a piss-poor replacement for a Blackberry, the team at work decided that the next attempt was an Android phone, specifically a Nexus One. (And, since the then-shipping version of Android didn't have native Exchange/ActiveSync support, a license for TouchDown.)
I ended up as the on-call two weeks ago, and spent a week living with (and playing with) the Nexus One.
And all I can say is "wow."
And not in a good way...
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Posted by dberger at 8:36 PM