Archive for the ‘Books’ Category

RIP, Kurt Vonnegut

And so it goes.

April 12th, 2007 · Tags And Now They're Dead, Books | Comments Off

Bookworm meme

From Michael Hanscom’s LJ:

1. Grab the nearest book
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog along with these instructions.
5. Don’t you dare dig for that “cool” or “intellectual” book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.
6. Tag 5 people

From Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Inside Out, by Jim Buyens (is it obvious I’m at work?!):

Outlook automatically propagates attendee status to the SharePoint site. You can also create Meeting Workspace sites from SharePoint Event lists.

Integrating InfoPath and SharePoint Form Libraries

After you’ve designed a form in InfoPath, you can upload it to a SharePoint form library.

This is actually the second closest book, but Head First Servlets & JSP has fewer than five sentences on page 23. I’m pretty sure it has fewer than three, actually. And I, too, will pass on the tagging - not because I fear tagging people who won’t participate, but because I don’t want anyone to feel “left out.” Do it if you want to! Don’t if you don’t!

January 29th, 2007 · Tags Books, Memes | Comments Off

Annoyance of the day

Why, in this day and age, can Barnes & Noble still only take one gift card per order on an online order? I don’t particularly want to traipse down to a store, have them order a book for me, wait for it to come in (because you know that this book isn’t available around here [and yes, I do know; I looked at the B&N in Florence for it, and Newport's B&N recently suffered a technology book spasm and lost about 3/4 of their section]), then come back down to get it… or pay the extra to get it sent to me. Nein, I say, nein! Why can I not just spend these two (TWO!) gift cards on the Internets?

Isn’t that what the future’s about?

Fuck flying cars, where’s my ability to spend two gift cards at once on the Internet?

January 5th, 2007 · Tags Annoyances, Books, Internet, Shopping, WTF? | Comments Off