Dave Kellam

I remember hearing about this book on weblogs when it came out, but forgot about it. Cory Doctorow (of BoingBoing) relicensed the book and is offering copies for free. I just started reading a copy on the palm.

My Zire has meant more reading for me this year. I’ve been through the five books in the hitcherhiker’s trilogy by Douglas Adams and Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. It’s mainly because I tend to have the palm around with me a lot; whenever I goto meetings or have my schoolbag with me. If I have to wait for something and get bored, I can pick up a book easily. Also, professor’s don’t mind you tapping away on a palm, they don’t seem to like people flipping through novels though.

Update: Doctorow’s second book is also available for download online.

I’ve done a bunch of a backend work and integrated the sidebar/quicklinks into the main block of posts rather than on the sidebar. It’s only on the main page, the archives will stay as they are, although I’ll make quicklink archives available. I spent some time over the last month or two overhauling how the quicklinks they were entered into moveable type, meaning I went through post by post to change them to a nicer format.

It involved a bit of work and a couple of mt plugins, but the integration wasn’t that hard. Here’s a good tutorial on how to do it, although it won’t give the setup I have. I did some tweaking and put the links at the bottom of the day’s posts rather than the top.