Buying electronic books for the Kindle, and in conjunction the Kindle app on various devices – PC, Macintosh, iPhone, iPad, Android tablet, etc. – has just become much more useful for me. Among the nice features of the Kindle software is the ability to hilight blocks of text and to take notes. This is hardly […]
Month: October 2011
Don’t Just Say…
Advice for my software testers, though it applies in many other parts of life as well: Don’t just say “this doesn’t work.” Use something like “This is what I did, this is what I expected, this is what I saw instead, here are the things I’ve tried, and this is what I think is wrong.” […]
Area 51
I just finished reading Area 51: An Uncensored History of America’s Top Secret Military Base, by Annie Jacobsen. [Amazon] Lots of previously-unknown history. It’s a good book, even if there aren’t enough aliens.