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Thursday, March 4, 2010
Friday, December 4, 2009
100 books
The list of books from artofmanliness seems worthwhile. I've marked up in bold what I have read.
Please suggest which ones I should read next.
100 Must Read Books
1. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
3. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
4. 1984 by George Orwell
5. The Republic by Plato
6. Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
7. The Catcher and the Rye by J.D. Salinger
8. The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
9. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
10. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
11. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
12. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
13. How To Win Friends And Influence People by Dale Carnegie
14. Call of the Wild by Jack London
15. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
16. Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss
17. Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
18. The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer
19. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
20. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
21. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
22. The Master and Margarita by by Mikhail Bulgakov
23. Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut
24. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
25. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
26. American Boys’ Handy Book
27. Into Thin Air by John Krakauer
28. King Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard
29. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
30. A River Runs Through It by Norman F. Maclean
31. The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
32. Malcolm X: The Autobiography
33. Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris
34. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
35. All Quiet on The Western Front by Erich Maria Remarq
36. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
37. Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans by Plutarch
38. The Strenuous Life by Theodore Roosevelt
39. The Bible
40. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
41. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
42. The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
43. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
44. The Dangerous Book for Boys by Conn and Hal Iggulden
45. The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
46. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
47. The Histories by Herodotus
48. From Here to Eternity by James Jones
49. The Frontier in American History by Frederick Jackson Turner
50. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
51. Self Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson
52. Another Roadside Attraction by Tom Robbins
53. White Noise by Don Delillo
54. Ulysses by James Joyce
55. The Young Man’s Guide by William Alcott
56. Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
57. Seek: Reports from the Edges of America & Beyond by Denis Johnson
58. Crime And Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
59. Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse
60. The Book of Deeds of Arms and of Chivalry by Christine De Pizan
61. The Art of Warfare by Sun Tzu
62. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
63. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
64. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
65. The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
66. The Rough Riders by Theodore Roosevelt
67. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
68. Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
69. The Thin Red Line by James Jones
70. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
71. The Politics by Aristotle
72. First Edition of the The Boy Scout Handbook
73. Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
74. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
75. The Crisis by Winston Churchill
76. The Naked and The Dead by Norman Mailer
77. Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
78. Animal Farm by George Orwell
79. Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
80. Beyond Good and Evil by Freidrich Nietzsche
81. The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison
82. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
83. Essential Manners for Men by Peter Post
84. Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly
85. Hamlet by Shakespeare
86. The Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn
87. A Separate Peace by John Knowles
88. A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway
89. The Stranger by Albert Camus
90. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Dafoe
91. The Pearl by John Steinbeck
92. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
93. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
94. Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
95. Foucault’s Pendulum - Umberto Eco
96. The Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux
97. Fear and Trembling by Soren Kierkegaard
98. Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose
99. Paradise Lost by John Milton
100. Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
Please suggest which ones I should read next.
100 Must Read Books
1. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
3. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
4. 1984 by George Orwell
5. The Republic by Plato
6. Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
7. The Catcher and the Rye by J.D. Salinger
8. The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
9. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
10. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
11. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
12. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
13. How To Win Friends And Influence People by Dale Carnegie
14. Call of the Wild by Jack London
15. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
16. Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss
17. Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
18. The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer
19. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
20. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
21. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
22. The Master and Margarita by by Mikhail Bulgakov
23. Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut
24. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
25. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
26. American Boys’ Handy Book
27. Into Thin Air by John Krakauer
28. King Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard
29. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
30. A River Runs Through It by Norman F. Maclean
31. The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
32. Malcolm X: The Autobiography
33. Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris
34. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
35. All Quiet on The Western Front by Erich Maria Remarq
36. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
37. Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans by Plutarch
38. The Strenuous Life by Theodore Roosevelt
39. The Bible
40. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
41. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
42. The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
43. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
44. The Dangerous Book for Boys by Conn and Hal Iggulden
45. The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
46. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
47. The Histories by Herodotus
48. From Here to Eternity by James Jones
49. The Frontier in American History by Frederick Jackson Turner
50. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
51. Self Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson
52. Another Roadside Attraction by Tom Robbins
53. White Noise by Don Delillo
54. Ulysses by James Joyce
55. The Young Man’s Guide by William Alcott
56. Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
57. Seek: Reports from the Edges of America & Beyond by Denis Johnson
58. Crime And Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
59. Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse
60. The Book of Deeds of Arms and of Chivalry by Christine De Pizan
61. The Art of Warfare by Sun Tzu
62. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
63. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
64. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
65. The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
66. The Rough Riders by Theodore Roosevelt
67. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
68. Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
69. The Thin Red Line by James Jones
70. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
71. The Politics by Aristotle
72. First Edition of the The Boy Scout Handbook
73. Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
74. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
75. The Crisis by Winston Churchill
76. The Naked and The Dead by Norman Mailer
77. Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
78. Animal Farm by George Orwell
79. Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
80. Beyond Good and Evil by Freidrich Nietzsche
81. The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison
82. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
83. Essential Manners for Men by Peter Post
84. Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly
85. Hamlet by Shakespeare
86. The Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn
87. A Separate Peace by John Knowles
88. A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway
89. The Stranger by Albert Camus
90. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Dafoe
91. The Pearl by John Steinbeck
92. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
93. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
94. Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
95. Foucault’s Pendulum - Umberto Eco
96. The Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux
97. Fear and Trembling by Soren Kierkegaard
98. Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose
99. Paradise Lost by John Milton
100. Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
Friday, October 16, 2009
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
An Equal And Opposite Reality
Progress:
(1) - Identify target group that is afflicted.
(2) - Raise awareness.
(3) - Implement new "fair" rules to mitigate target's affliction.
(4) - Target forced into another scenario with similar afflictions.
(5) - Repeat.
(1) - Identify target group that is afflicted.
(2) - Raise awareness.
(3) - Implement new "fair" rules to mitigate target's affliction.
(4) - Target forced into another scenario with similar afflictions.
(5) - Repeat.
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Blasted Checked Exceptions
Argh You Checked Exceptions!!!!
Finally someone makes the case against the bastards in a clear way: http://java.dzone.com/articles/checked-exceptions-i-love-you
The Citigroup SSO was the only project I worked on that did this. Basically every exception was a RuntimeException - and would redirect you to a standard error page - and log the problem. That's it - this isn't a pickup game of softball - why do I have to catch and rethrow?
Finally someone makes the case against the bastards in a clear way: http://java.dzone.com/articles/checked-exceptions-i-love-you
The Citigroup SSO was the only project I worked on that did this. Basically every exception was a RuntimeException - and would redirect you to a standard error page - and log the problem. That's it - this isn't a pickup game of softball - why do I have to catch and rethrow?
Monday, September 14, 2009
My Favorite Computer Warning Message
I don't see this one often, but this is my favorite warning message spit out by computers. Well, that is since "(A)bort, (R)etry, (F)ail?" has faded into obscurity. (Note the domain name and IP address have been changed to protect the innocent.
I generated this one intentionally by reassigning a DNS record for one of my domains to a different public IP address. And I'm not sure but I think in older versions of the ssh implementation it used to say "monkey-in-the-middle attack".
BTW - this is one of the messages you should take very seriously if you didn't deliberately trigger it.
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
@ WARNING: POSSIBLE DNS SPOOFING DETECTED! @
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
The RSA host key for xyz.com has changed,
and the key for the according IP address 196.168.0.1
is unknown. This could either mean that
DNS SPOOFING is happening or the IP address for the host
and its host key have changed at the same time.
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
@ WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED! @
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
IT IS POSSIBLE THAT SOMEONE IS DOING SOMETHING NASTY!
Someone could be eavesdropping on you right now (man-in-the-middle attack)!
It is also possible that the RSA host key has just been changed.
The fingerprint for the RSA key sent by the remote host is
da:ca:4b:b2:23:b2:ce:9d:95:09:77:7b:df:8d:c8:bf.
Please contact your system administrator.
I generated this one intentionally by reassigning a DNS record for one of my domains to a different public IP address. And I'm not sure but I think in older versions of the ssh implementation it used to say "monkey-in-the-middle attack".
BTW - this is one of the messages you should take very seriously if you didn't deliberately trigger it.
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
@ WARNING: POSSIBLE DNS SPOOFING DETECTED! @
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
The RSA host key for xyz.com has changed,
and the key for the according IP address 196.168.0.1
is unknown. This could either mean that
DNS SPOOFING is happening or the IP address for the host
and its host key have changed at the same time.
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
@ WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED! @
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
IT IS POSSIBLE THAT SOMEONE IS DOING SOMETHING NASTY!
Someone could be eavesdropping on you right now (man-in-the-middle attack)!
It is also possible that the RSA host key has just been changed.
The fingerprint for the RSA key sent by the remote host is
da:ca:4b:b2:23:b2:ce:9d:95:09:77:7b:df:8d:c8:bf.
Please contact your system administrator.
Thursday, August 27, 2009
amazon ec2 rocks
OK - I've drunk the kool-aide. I messed around with EC2 this week. And I have to say that it blows away any other hosting service that I have ever seen.
So far I've been running an AMI from alestic. Apparently there are some rouge AMIs out there which have rootkits or some such nonsense, but these look legit. It is a big step forward from the Fedora Core 7 instance I had on godaddy.
I've also setup my S3 storage with a few buckets. One is just a public bucket that I plan on using for storage related to the various blogs that I maintain or post to. I've even used a bucket to customize the alestic 9.04 ubuntu AMI with my own updates. Now I just need to setup some persistent storage that I can mount as a drive from within my instance, and I will be in business.
Well that and there is some annoying Tomcat 6 issue that I am hitting. For some reason some of my servlets are not being found. I'm pretty sure that my ajp configuration from apache isn't the problem, but I've tried several different web.xml values for the servlet's URL mappings. I can run the app, and my login and logout servlets hit fine. But the servlets that I have for hitting gwt based remote services aren't flying. Ergh.
Oh and I've got an "elastic" IP address. It is really a neat idea. Instead of having to muck with A Records, you can quickly repoint the public IP address to various instances on your account. All in all, it really does rock!
So far I've been running an AMI from alestic. Apparently there are some rouge AMIs out there which have rootkits or some such nonsense, but these look legit. It is a big step forward from the Fedora Core 7 instance I had on godaddy.
I've also setup my S3 storage with a few buckets. One is just a public bucket that I plan on using for storage related to the various blogs that I maintain or post to. I've even used a bucket to customize the alestic 9.04 ubuntu AMI with my own updates. Now I just need to setup some persistent storage that I can mount as a drive from within my instance, and I will be in business.
Well that and there is some annoying Tomcat 6 issue that I am hitting. For some reason some of my servlets are not being found. I'm pretty sure that my ajp configuration from apache isn't the problem, but I've tried several different web.xml values for the servlet's URL mappings. I can run the app, and my login and logout servlets hit fine. But the servlets that I have for hitting gwt based remote services aren't flying. Ergh.
Oh and I've got an "elastic" IP address. It is really a neat idea. Instead of having to muck with A Records, you can quickly repoint the public IP address to various instances on your account. All in all, it really does rock!
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