Random Thoughts and Reading Notes







Introduction

Nothing is really happened until it's been described.

— Virginia Woolf

While I am reading, I take notes. However, I am far from neat. My notes scattered all around my room. As time goes by, it becomes very difficult to find them. I need a central deposit for all those notes. A natural conclusion is here, my personal cyberspace. I can access it anywhere, any time. However, sometimes I am too lazy to type up them. Here, let me make a resolution: whenever I take notes, I will type them up, put them online, for my own convenience. Of course, if you happen to come across these notes, be my guest, I hope you enjoy.






Notes Archive of December, 2003


Notes Archive of November, 2003


Notes Archive of October, 2003


Notes Archive before October, 2003


Experiencing the 2003 New York Blackout


Georges Jean,
Writing: The Story of Alphabets and Scripts, 1987 Translated from French by Jenny Oates


Norman Davies,
Europe: A History, 1996


Experiencing the 2003 Blackout


Daniel J. Boorstin,
The Discoverers: A history of Man's Search to know his World and Himself, 1985


Daniel J. Boorstin,
The Creators: A History of Heros of the Imagination, 1992


Isaac Asimov,
It's Been a Good Life, 2002


Isaac Asimov,
The Relativity of Wrong, 1996


Isaac Asimov,
Words of Science and the History behind Them, 1974


William Langewiesche,
Anarchy at Sea, 2003


David Sedaris,
The Girl Next Door, 2003


George F. Luger, William A. Stubblefield,
Artificial Intelligence: Structures and Strategies for Complex Problem Solving, 3rd Edition, 1998


Alfred V. Aho, Ravi Sethi, and Jeffrey D. Ullman,
Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools, 1986


Ivan Bratko,
Prolog: Programming for Artificial Intelligence, 2nd Edition, 1990


David A. Patterson and John L. Hennessy,
Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface, 2nd Edition, 1998


Bruce Sterling,
The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier, 1992


Maureen Caudill and Charles Butler,
Understanding Neural Networks: Computer Explorations, volumn 1: Basic Networks, 1996


Mark Allen Weiss,
Data Structures and Algorithm Analysis in C, 2nd Edition, 1997


Timothy Budd,
Understanding Object-Oriented Programming with Java, updated edition, 2000


Aeleen Frisch,
Essential System Administration, 2nd Edition, 1995


Cay S. Horstmann and Gary Cornell,
Core Java 2, Volumn 1--Fundamentals, 1999


David Blatner, Glenn Fleishman, and Steve Roth,
Real World Scanning and Halftones: The Definitive Guide to Scanning and Halftones from the Desktop, 2nd Edition, 1998


David Blatner and Bruce Fraser,
Real World Photoshop 5: Industrial Strength Production Techniques, 1999


Avi Silberschatz and Peter Galvin,
Operating System Concepts, 5th Edition, 1999


John Durkin,
Expert Systems: Design and Development, 1994


Barbara C. McNurlin and Ralph H. Sprague, Jr.,
Information Systems Management in Practice, 4th Edition, 1998


Kenneth J. Hsu,
The Mediterranean was a desert : a voyage of the Glomar Challenger, 1993 Simplified Chinese version


David Pogue,
PalmPilot: the Ultimate Guide, 1998


Tom Grimm and Michele Grimm,
The Basic Book of Photography, 4th Edition, 1997


Robin Williams,
The Mac is not a Typewriter, 1990


Robin Williams,
Beyond the Mac is not a Typewriter, 1996


Herbert Schildt,
C: the Complete Reference, 1989


Herbert Schildt,
C++: the Complete Reference, 1992


William Stearns Davis,
A day in old Rome


Walter J. Boyne,
Clash of Titans: World War II at Sea, 1995


Edwin Gabler,
The American Telegrapher: A Social History, 1860--1900, 1988


William F. Touponce,
Issac Asimov, 1991


Stephen Jay Gould,
Questioning the Millennium: A Rationalist's Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown, 1997


Richard P. Feynman,
The Meaning of It all: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist, 1998


Edward O. Wilson,
Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, 1998


Carl Sagan,
Billions and Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millenium, 1997


Stephen King,
Storm of the Century, 1999


Issac Asimov,
Prelude to Foundation, 1991


Charlotte Brontë,
Jane Eyre, 1975


Herman Melville,
Moby Dick, 1996


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