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The Perl for Website Management book is helpful, but even more so are the samples found at the book site. There is even a Perl for Website Management book Wiki that has some of the samples and some other related info.
I have found the book to be very helpful for giving ideas and means to approach dealing with Web access logs.
I finished William Gibson's Pattern Recognition this morning. This was up there with the Neil Stephenson Snow Crash and Cryptnomicon, but a much shorter read. It was a very quick read that sucked me in for the ride. The book seemed to have been written in the last few months as it was just behind the pop meme that was current just a few short months ago, or so it seemed. A very fun book.
Since I am in the midst of reading William Gibson's Pattern Recognition a great resource is 'PR'-otaku, which is an annotation of Pattern Recognition put together by Joe Clark. This is a brilliant addition to the book done by a fan. I had noticed many of the same items that are annotated, notably monomers in the first few pages, which has my radar on since then. [hat tip Adam]
Okay, here is the list of booty from Powells Books... Metarepresentations: a multidisciplinary prespective edited by Dan Sperber, a description of this Cog Sci overview book help understand it better. Kunstler's The City in Mind. Feynman's Six Easy Pieces, which I started this morning on the train and really enjoy. William Gibson's Pattern Recognition that I started reading on the plane and has really pulled me in. A string of tech books, MySQL Cookbook, Perl and XML, and Java and XML, and based on Peter's recommendation Managing Enterprise Content: A Unified Content Strategy. This and yesterday's mentioned Hofstadler book should about cover it. I really wish there were a Powells Books where I lived, but my wallet does not wish the same. It is great to be able to see the books and evaluate how helpful the book will actually be to you before buying.
I also added Information Architecture: An Emerging 21st Century Profession by Earl Morrogh while at the IA Summit. It seems to be a very good overview on first pass and it comes very highly recommended. I met Earl at the Summit and he is purely delightful and very much a part of the IA community.
Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver is slated for release in September 2003. I am anxiously awaiting this book. Hopefully the book arrives at the beginning of September as things may be a little busy after that.
On the train in this morning I read the NYTimes article librarians fighting for digital books and copyright free content. Electronic content that is easily available is a great way to access books and information. One of the first things I looked of on the Internet in 1992/1993 was the Magna Carta. I remember that I found it through a set of Gopher links. I though this Internet thing was going to be amazing. It is in many ways, but there are folks out their with poor minds that keep them from seeing the posibilities of the future.
Electronic books are a great find and a seemingly excellent use of public libraries. Being that I read this article from an AvantGo NYTimes download (yes, synched off Windows as I am still waiting from the Mac OS X version or a competitor) of the frontpage, business, and technology news. I have read three or four short books on my Palm during commute time. Now that monitors and software are improving reading on a personal computer much easier. Libraries are on the right track. Bless them.
I am still very worn down and in need of some serious sleep, exercise, and relaxation. Hopefully that will come in the next week or two.
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