A late 90s reading of Wired, examining the sexist and racist agenda of the magazine and the larger digital elite for whom Wired became a bible. Despite the book's age, its critique of Wired’s hypermacho, unproblematic technofetishism is still relevant.

Kurkov’s minimalist style makes him, for me, one of the most interesting and entertaining writers working today. His prose is somehow caustically satirical whilst reading like a fairy tale. This story of time travel and heavy drinking had me hooked from the get go — I read it in one sitting.

Using Haskell to illustrate ideas from logic is actually really helpful if you have a programmer's brain like I do. I fund the material on sets and relations especially helpful in getting my head round some pretty hardcore ideas. I intend to re-read and do the excercises sometime later in the year.

I found tis book in the stack of old things in my Dad’s garage that I was sorting through the other day. It is actually really fascinating to learn about stuff like airways, how traffic is co-ordinated and how runways are named — especially given the context of Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 which is missing as I write this and as I read the book. I am sure some readers would find it rather dry, but hey, I had a long train journey.

Rather old-fashioned and unproblematically sexist cricket cartoons. Also occasionally funny.

Happened to have a PDF of this kicking around from a while back. It is a guide to healthy living with special reference to the kind of problems that programmers are likely to hit — carpal tunnel, eye-strain, back problems. Pretty solid advice and well written enough. There are no huge revelations, but all the material is based on actual peer-reviewed science, rather than bullshit or intuition, making that advice "worth following".

The blurb mentions "Cute critters unit[ing] to save the world" — what’s not to love about that, right? But actually this was more a meditation on how we might fight industrial capitalism and actually win for a change. No real conclusions are reached about what might work, which is maybe a little depressing, but at least acknowledges the cale of the problem.