What do you do when you’ve successfully gotten a demo to Mobile World Congress and you want to reward yourself?
Go order a little light reading of course! 
Amazon are really getting to like it when I log in at this stage I think 
Although, the more recent book purchase was with The Book Depository and between lower prices and free shipping, they actually worked out cheaper than Amazon did (and thanks to Neal Asher for that tip). They weren’t cheaper for every book though – ironically the science fiction books I was looking at were more expensive – but for the programming books I was looking for, they came in about seven or eight euros under amazon.com and their shipping is about six weeks faster than amazon’s, for free. So we’ll see in a day or three when the books arrive if they’re as good as they look…
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Finally got round to sending off an Amazon order that’s been building up since last year…
- “Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs Novels)”, “Broken Angels”,“Woken Furies: A Takeshi Kovacs Novel”
Richard K. Morgan
- “Wireless”
Charles Stross
- “Regenesis”
C. J. Cherryh
- “In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build A Perfect Language”
Arika Okrent
- “Great Mambo Chicken And The Transhuman Condition: Science Slightly Over The Edge”
Ed Regis
- “The Starflight Handbook: A Pioneer’s Guide to Interstellar Travel (Wiley Science Editions)”
Eugene F. Mallove
- “Spacefaring: The Human Dimension”
Albert A. Harrison
- “Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut”
Mike Mullane
- “Envisioning Information”, “Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative”, “Visual & Statistical Thinking: Displays of Evidence for Decision Making”, “The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, 2nd edition”, “Beautiful Evidence”
Edward R. Tufte
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[digg=http://digg.com/educational/College_fees_and_student_loans] Ferdinand von Prondzynski, the president of DCU, has written a few blog posts about ways to cope with the way the government has been slashing the funding for universities (usually on the quiet), but with the recent announcement of the proposed new college loans plan, he’s written more, and most recently this post discussing the levels of the fees for different courses, which he disagrees with, mainly because the universities haven’t been asked to the policy table from what I can see:
In the end, this is another aspect of any new framework for student contributions that confirms the importance of full consultation with the higher education institutions before any final model is put in place.
The engagement with the idea to the stage where its details are being debated is sufficiently depressing that I wrote a reply to his post, and I wanted to reproduce it here:
I still find it enormously depressing to see the
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