An Australian woman, Rhonda Byrne, has written a book, made a “movie” and appeared a couple of times on Oprah talking about “The Secret” (Book • Audio • Movie). The movie is a very abridged version of the book and both are an incredibly long way to illustrate the laws of attraction. In short if [...]
30 Mar, 2007
Posted by: Tyroga In: Books
I’m about halfway through the book “Needful Things”, by Stephen King. It’s the second time reading it, the first being over ten years ago when it was first published. I don’t often re-read books. I find that once I start, everything comes flooding back and the book is complete in my head less than a [...]
Finished reading iWoz – the autobiography of Steve Wozniak. As you all know (well some of you do, the others should!) Steve was the creator of the Apple I and the Apple II, computers that changed the way we live today. What you might not know is along the way he created a lot of [...]
Today saw an early trip into the city for a spot of breakfast at the “Street café” on Lygon Street in the city. Breakfast was OK and we only made it to Lygon Street after walking up and down Smith Street in Collingwood and noting that NOTHING there seems to open before 10 on Saturday. [...]
29 Sep, 2006
Posted by: Tyroga In: Books
Go Woz… a new book called iWoz published this week. Guess I’ll have to pick up a copy. The Apple story is one of those that shows the geek with the idea should keep it to himself and run… but then would I be typing this on a PowerMac G5 if Woz had? Probably not. [...]
A couple of months ago I went to dinner with a couple of people from the office, Sue and Sandy, we went to the Pelican’s Landing in Williamstown and had a great night at dinner. Sandy took us out for a treat for all the help we’d given to the Denton Mills project at work. [...]
The book by Jeff Long -> Not the movie which seems to borrow parts of the book but not give Jeff any credit. The book has been on my shelf for around three years, unread. I didn’t buy it, back when I was working for Murdoch Magazines it was sent to Live This (a short-lived, [...]