posted 16 Sep 2008 (Tue) at 2:34p.m.
from the couch
I'm right in the middle of Neal Stephenson's new tome Anathem, and it's like Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy - it's making me wish I'd studied some kind of hard science or classics, and that I had a bunch of really geeky friends to hang out and trade theorems with. Anathem is novel of big ideas - science, philosophy, and religion - but it also shot through with a melancholy longing that really gets to me. I haven't finished it yet, but so far I think it's as good as, or maybe even better than Cryptonomicon, if such a thing is possible.
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posted 12 Dec 2007 (Wed) at 5:34p.m.
from the office
Adrian Holovaty and his crew have been working on the Django Book for awhile now. It's been available for free at djangobook.com since (I think) the beginning, but he just blogged that it has finally shipped and is available at amazon.com. I pre-ordered mine awhile ago, and I can't wait to get my copy. Maybe the coolest news is that as of right now the book is #13 in Amazon's "Computers & Internet" category, and #3 in the "Computers & Internet > Web Development" category. Looks like a lot of people are interested in Django. :)
