Author William Zinsser is known for his book on writing well, On Writing Well, still a popular work on the subject almost half a century after its original publication. Less well known but still worth a read is his Writing to Learn. This is another book of writing advice, but in this case he is […]
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On Being Curious
Those of us who have decided to enter the rewarding—and occasionally frustrating and exhausting—profession of software development know that learning is a daily requirement, a subject I have written about before. If you include yourself in that description, you also know how quickly you see the limits of your knowledge of the field recede before […]
Book Review: Codex Metallum
I’ve always had a certain fascination with the dark and morbid, and as a teenager my taste in music, reading and other media reflected my interest in the grotesque. It was Napalm Death and Carcass, Lovecraft and Poe–for that matter, my favorite wrestler was The Undertaker. I’m old enough so that this was back in […]
Book Review: Codex Seraphinianus
Surrealism is a genre that invites us to put aside our store of familiar associations, to forget the logic of cause and effect we have become comfortable with by daily repetition. It presents a world arranged according to a different set of rules, woven from different threads than those which hold our familiar world together. […]
Book Review: I Am Error
I have heard that the Futhark runic alphabet uses only vertical and diagonal lines to delineate its letters because it was usually engraved in wood, where the horizontal grain would make it difficult to distinguish a stroke from its wooden background. The quirks and limitations inherent in a medium leave their mark on the products […]