Last time I travelled by train I was dumb enough to leave my portable music player behind. I tried calling the Lost + Found office, where much more expensive and fancy items had been collected, to no avail. So the search for a new player began. My basic requirement was that it must play Ogg [...]
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Book review: The Black Swan
I was recommended this book some time ago by a friend, and after checking the summary I added it to my list of book to read right away. This book is the first book I have tried to read using the “How to Read a Book” method, so take my opinion with an extra grain [...]
Book review: “97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know”
In the last batch of books I ordered from The Book Depository I had “97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know“. It was a thin book and one of the first to arrive, so I figured it was a good one to start. The book is a collection of 2-page articles about project management. It [...]
Book review: The Road
Lately I’ve been reading a bunch of books that were recommended by Scott Berkun in one way or another. The next book I’m going to review (slide:ology) actually falls into this category too, but basically I’m done with that batch so I’m reading other things now :-D I don’t read that much fiction (except in [...]
An Actor Prepares
I learned about this book when reading “Confessions of a Public Speaker” (see my review). My idea was learning a bit about acting, which theoretically would help me being more comfortable when speaking and would teach me a couple of things about behaving on stage. Not that you can learn a lot of acting by [...]
Book review: The Geography of Thought
Some time ago I ordered a bunch of books from Book Depository. One of them was Confessions of a Public Speaker, and another one was The Geography of Thought, a book about the differences between how East Asians and Americans think and behave. The book explores the difference between East and West thinking and how [...]
Dexter
It all started with my brother. He told me long ago that I had to watch the show, how good it was and so on. Completely forgot about it (sorry, bro!). But, last Christmas he bought me the first season on DVD. So we started watching it. The first episodes were kind of “meh”. You [...]
Review of “Confessions of a Public Speaker”
I had been looking forward to this book since relatively long before it was published. Having read “The Myths of Innovation” and “Making Things Happen“, I knew that “Confessions of a Public Speaker” would be a good book. And all the reviews I had read seemed to confirm it. “Confessions…”, as you can imagine, is [...]
Review: Dingoo (A320)
When I mentioned that I wanted an “open” portable gaming console that played PSP games, Enrique mentioned the Dingoo. Not that it actually plays PSP games, but it’s indeed an “open” console, cheap and with a number of “extras”. So I wondered if playing PSP games was so important for me. Not that it wouldn’t [...]
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