Posts Tagged ‘Books’

Random & Assorted Musings

I have been using a plu­gin to auto­mat­i­cally post a sum­mary of my weekly tweets, but that plu­gin stopped post­ing a while back for no rea­son that I can deter­mine. *sigh* So in place of that auto­mated post­ing and because I find I actu­ally have a few semi-random things to say, today I give you […]

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I’ve Been Up To…

Cel­e­brat­ing Obama’s elec­tion. Try­ing to work my way through 100 push-ups, but hav­ing to restart a cou­ple of weeks.  Espe­cially week 4 which I’m cur­rently on restart #3 due to hol­i­day & snow-shovelling mad­ness. Pan­ick­ing over the econ­omy. Beat­ing my head against wxPython & Py2EXE. Twit­ter­ing Enjoy­ing a very Hor­ri­ble Christ­mas1. Read­ing a lot. Pin­ing for […]

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Now-Reading Tweaks

I use Rob Miller’s excel­lent Now-Reading plu­gin to track all the books I’ve read and am read­ing here at Cof­fee­Bear. After my recent site upgrade I decided to tweak the sin­gle book tem­plate for my library. I noticed that the lat­est ver­sion of Now-Reading allows you to note who read a given book on multiuser […]

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Reading List

If you hop over to my library page, you’ll notice my read­ing list has grown con­sid­er­ably. That’s because I just added in all the books we bought at the annual book sale held by our local pub­lic library. There’s far too many for me to fin­ish them all this year, but I hope to have […]

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The Dark Is Rising

The Dark Is Ris­ing sequence is a set of 5 books1 writ­ten by Susan Cooper between 1965 and 1977. It is with­out ques­tion my favorite series of books from when I was younger and it is also now being made into a movie. More acu­rately, the sec­ond book in the series is being made into […]

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