My bookshelves are filling up, so I had the choice to either add another Ikea Billy or off-load some books. When talking with a colleague about a shared hobby, geocaching, he mentioned the concept of bookcrossing.
What a great way to get rid off the books that you liked but are likely never to read […]

I don’t know who referred it to me, but last week I read Systemantics - How Systems Work and Especially How They Fail - a little gem of a book filled with satire about, well, how systems don’t work.
Insightful, thoroughly enjoyable, and it does make one think at times. As it is a small […]

Let’s be clear: this might prove a controversial post. I’m an atheist, and proud of it, so I stand 100% behind what Dawkins set out to do in this book–get people to drop their theistic beliefs in favour of atheism.
Yup, that’s right. In his newest book, The God Delusion, biologist Richard Dawkins is head-on […]

Grounded at home because of a serious backpain, I’ve finally been able to get through my backlog of books. Among others, I worked my way through a couple of books that for some reason were on sale at a bookstore here for 1 euro each - two fiction books, The Final Solution: A Story of […]

One of the things I do when starting a job, especially when it’s different enough from the previous job, is read up. As the current job at Speurders.nl is more a people job than a technology job, one of the books I’m re-reading is Peopleware by Tom DiMarco and Timothy Lister.
Peopleware is in […]

This is a book for advanced Feynmanistas - if you’ve never heard of the man (very unlikely) or read about his life (unlikely if you live in the USofA, more likely if not), you are probably better off with Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! or What Do You Care What Other People Think? - both […]

God’s Debris, by Scott Adams (free electronic version, buy) is a nice little book about a parcel delivery guy making a delivery that changes his life.
It turns out that the old man at the house is omniscient, and a dialogue about many topics - the universe, evolution, how we think, reality - unfolds. […]