The Thoughts and Feelings of a Melbourne Person
So we’ve just received the revised edition of Donna’s classic autobiography “Nobody Nowhere” from the publishers with an updated forward, some of the quotes about it on the back and one of Donna’s paintings, “Swing“, on the cover!
Donna originally wrote Nobody Nowhere was in 1990 and as it is considered a classic autobiography of [...]
Found via Ian Fosters blog on “Free Books“, his paper book “Designing and Building Parallel Programs: Concepts and Tools for Parallel Software Engineering” is available online at ANL for reference for no cost (though you’re not allowed to archive a copy without permission).
This isn’t something new, mind you, it was done 13 years ago [...]
Back in 2006 Ross Anderson (Professor of Security Engineering at the Cambridge Computer Laboratory) announced on his blog that he had published the full contents of the first edition of his book “
Via Mark.
Grab the nearest book.
Open the book to page 23.
Find the fifth sentence.
Post the text of the next three sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
Don’t dig for your favourite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
Tag five other people to do the same.
Here we go..
The mainboard connector provides a [...]
The first edition of William R. Cheswick and Steven M. Bellovin’s excellent “Firewalls and Internet Security: Repelling the Wily Hacker” is now available online! According to Google Scholar this book has been cited 661 times..
The second edition is available from Amazon.
Thanks for the pointer, Rick!
Yay! Donna now has her own IMDB page as both screenwriter and appearing as herself in documentaries!
The BBC reports that Mr Justice Peter Smith encoded a message into his judgement on the “Da Vinci Code” copyright case.
Seemingly random italicised letters were included in the 71-page judgement given by Mr Justice Peter Smith, which apparently spell out a message. [...]
Italicised letters in the first few pages spell out “Smithy Code”, while the [...]
Hooray, it appears that the law and common sense has triumphed in the case of Baigent & Leigh versus The Random House Group Limited over the fiction work “The Da Vinci Code“. From the judgement:
2.1 Holy Blood Holy Grail does not have a Central Theme as contended by the Claimants: it was an artificial [...]
A sad day for the arts with the loss of a Polish science fiction author and an australian painter.
Stanislaw Lem has died (Via Alec - though it’s not obvious unless you grok Unix humour or click on the link). A controversial character, he was the author of books such as The Cyberiad and The [...]
Well the author copies of Donna’s 9th published book The Jumbled Jigsaw have arrived with a fab cover featuring a lovely painting by Donna called the Music of Beingness!
Hopefully it’ll stir up the autism field into realising that there is far more diversity in the causes of the symptoms that get labelled as “Autism” and [...]
