Archive for the ‘books’ Category

Visit the Hacks Booth at the Maker Faire

Monday, April 17th, 2006

If you’re going out to the Maker Faire, be sure to drop by the Hacks booth and say howdy. I’ll be bringing some goodies related to a few of our hacks books, and there will be plenty of toys you can mess around with.

Ubuntu Hacks @ LinuxWorld Boston

Wednesday, April 5th, 2006

I’ll be giving a short talk and demonstration on Ubuntu Hacks today (Wednesday, April 5 at 12:30) at the O’Reilly LinuxWorld booth. Drop by and learn about getting Ubuntu running under colinux, going online with a Bluetooth connection and a cell phone, and a few more things.

Retro Gaming Hacks

Wednesday, December 21st, 2005

I love the animated tile that the O’Reilly Network folks chose for Josh’s Pong/SDL hack.

Badger Badger Flashlight Flashlight

Tuesday, November 15th, 2005


I just received my copy of the Japanese edition of Don’t Click on
the Blue E
, and I really like the cover.

Halo 2 Modding Considered Harmful?

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2005

Stephen Cawood, author of Halo 2 Hacks (which I had the honor and pleasure of editing): “modding is not the same as cheating.”

Holmes

Wednesday, March 2nd, 2005

Warren Ellis:
“If only Conan Doyle had had the freedom to have Watson call Holmes a
bastard every now and then.”

Perky Pat Watch

Thursday, September 9th, 2004

As of this writing, the number of people who’ve made a Perky Pat+The Sims connection fills only two pages on Google. I wonder if it will be bigger when I come back to this post in a few months…

All Things New York Day at Borders Columbus Circle

Friday, March 26th, 2004

I’ll be doing some Wi-Fi show and tell at the All
Things New York Day celebration
at the Columbus
Circle Borders Store
. Looks like I’ll be hanging around with a Mac, a PC,
a Zaurus, and a Pocket PC around 5pm. For me, the big event is the rollout of
the free pocket guide that I wrote with Rob.

Star of Rory’s Story

Sunday, March 21st, 2004

Cool–my namesake is the star of a short story that Rory
just posted.

"Bookscan: for better, or worse?"

Friday, January 9th, 2004

Dave Taylor: “All of my author friends are familiar with a company called bookscan, that purports to offer unbiased quantified data about book sales throughout all outlets. But do they?”