Posts Tagged ‘Books’
I’ve Been Up To…
Posted by Mark | Filed under Life
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 a new camera.
Buying new shoes as the […]
Tags: Books, camera, christmas, exercise, Python, shopping
Now-Reading Tweaks
Posted by Mark | Filed under Life, Plugins, WordPress
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 […]
Tags: Books, Code, Now-Reading, PHP, Plugins, Upgrade, WordPress
Reading List
Posted by Mark | Filed under Books, Quickie
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 […]
The Dark Is Rising
Posted by Mark | Filed under Books, Movies
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 […]
Squeeee!
Posted by Mark | Filed under Life
Tonight, John Scalzi made a stop at the Prairie Lights bookstore in Iowa City, IA for his book tour to promote The Last Colony. Michelle & I got there wicked early1 and chatted with a couple of store employees briefly. Fortunately, they were cool with me bringing in my own copy of The […]















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