Archive for November, 2007
The Medici Giraffe
Title: The Medici Giraffe Author: Marina Belozerskaya Hardcover: 432 pages Publisher: Little, Brown and Company (August 21, 2006) Language: English ISBN-10: 0316525650 ISBN-13: 978-0316525657 The title of this book is a misnomer – only one chapter out of 7 talks about the Medici Giraffe, which was a gift from an Egyptian ruler to get the […]
November 11th, 2007 by alephnaught
Medici Money: Banking, Metaphysics, and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence
Title:Â Medici Money: Banking, Metaphysics, and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence Author: Tim Parks Paperback: 288 pages Publisher: W. W. Norton; 1 edition (May 15, 2006) Language: English ISBN-10: 0393328457 ISBN-13: 978-0393328455 I read this book while traveling to and from San Diego for an interview. The book is very interesting – it weaves the historical events […]
November 4th, 2007 by alephnaught
13949712720901ForOSX
13949712720901ForOSX You can read about why this string is important here. Suffice it to say that this seems like a nice, non-violent way to support the port of Java 6 to the Mac platform. Although, I suspect Apple has it almost ready anyway – they delayed the Leopard launch to get the iPhone done, and […]
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+Bob Hays
- I'm a father and husband, have two schipperkes, like to read, compose music, travel. And I manage a couple software development teams at DIRECTV.
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November 19th, 2007 by alephnaught