Read a Real Blog

By the way, check out a real blog, The Red Humor. It's beautifully written by a friend of mine. I expect a book deal shortly.

Back From the Dead! (kinda)

I see Tom has long given up on blogging here, and I don't blame him. I haven't been active here in 7 years. But I thought I'd at least repost some items I do share via Twitter and Reader, with the occasional real blog post thrown in. I'd also like to use this page to test some of our ads and analytics products from a user perspective.

Site News

For various reasons, I've opted to delete virtually all of the posts I've made to this blog. I'm currently doing much more focused blogging on another site, and don't anticipate going back to blogging on current events, political stuff, law (outside of strictly professional posts), or general blogging. I did, before deleting my contributions, save copies of them, so hit me up on the blog email address if you want a copy of anything.

Hmphf

I don't know why I still have this. I'm not updating it, but worse, I'm bookmarking lots of stuff with the vague and sure to be unfulfilled intention of posting it here. Time to stop that.

Best Books

I've recorded every book I've read* since December 2003. I used to do book reviews on here regularly, but have since stopped that for one reason or another. Still, I feel like I should tell you, my mythical reader, what's worth reading. So, by year, here are the books I've read that have been good. Note here the definition of "good" is "books you should consider reading even if you normally don't read books like that."

2004
Moneyball by Michael Lewis
Beyond Fear by Bruce Schneier

2005
An Empire of Wealth by John Steele Gordon (Americans only)
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein
Hyperion by Dan Simmons

2006
America's Game by Michael MacCambridge (Americans only)
The Cold War by John Lewis Gaddis
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
The American Revolution: A History by Gordon Wood
Dune by Frank Herbert

2007
The Price of Admission by Daniel Golden
Americanism by David Gelernter

2008
1491 by Charles Mann
The Fate of Africa by Martin Meredith
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss (I violated my "don't read a series until it's done" rule for this book, and I don't hugely regret it)

These are far from the only books I read those years, but they're the only ones I can say really are good.