BillSeitz is not currently reading any books.
I’m 46 years old, male, from the United States. I’ve been a DailyLit member since October 30, 2007. My reading interests include SciFi, and Adventure.
Books
- Wikipedia Tour: Key Philosophers finished
- DailyLit Holiday Reads finished
- College Knowledge: 101 Tips finished
- The Canterbury Tales finished
- Pride and Prejudice finished
- Clarissa Volume 1 finished
- Le Mystère de la Chambre Jaune finished
- Book Sampler: Science Fiction finished
- Book Sampler: American Classics finished
- The Three Musketeers finished
- 100 Ways to Succeed/Make Money finished
- The Scarlet Letter finished
- Good Experience Columns finished
- Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom finished
- Spanish Billionaire, Innocent Wife finished
- Wikipedia Tour: Famous Poets finished
- Wikipedia Tour: Greek Mythology finished
- Best of Technology Writing 2007 finished
- Free as in Freedom finished
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Scroogled finished
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Eastern Standard Tribe finished
- The Pied Piper of Hamelin finished
- How to Live on 24 Hours a Day finished
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes finished
- Little Brother suspended
- Madame Bovary suspended
- This Moment on Earth suspended
- Many Thoughts of Many Minds (Quotations) suspended
- Clarissa Volume 2 suspended
- Emma suspended
- Clarissa Volume 4 suspended
- Crime and Punishment suspended
- The Mysterious Affair at Styles suspended
- War and Peace suspended
- Don Quixote suspended
- The Importance of Being Earnest suspended
- The Count of Monte Cristo suspended
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Accelerando suspended
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin unread
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Overclocked unread
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The Art of War unread
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Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town unread
Posts
Ideas - Price in new book RSS feed
Good idea! We'll add it shortly.
Bugs - Wrong time
At the moment, we make some assumptions about Daylight Savings Time applying everywhere (and starting on the same dates). Since Sidney does its DST at the *opposite* period of the year as the US, the times end up off.
Eventually we'll do it more precisely, but it won't be very soon. So you just need to manually adjust the time to get it just right.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Eastern Standard Tribe - Just getting started
which technology seems particularly futuristic to you?
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom - what drives whuffie?
I originally thought of it as explicit, kinda like a blog post/link/rating.
But...
"I pinged my Whuffie. I was up a couple percentiles -- sympathy Whuffie -- but it was falling: Dan and Lil were radiating disapproval. Screw 'em."
Does this mean that Dan and Lil's emotional state and its object were automatically "scraped"? Or that other people are watching this scene, and "rating" him? Or what?
Help - problem adding book roll to my blog
I'm seeing it on your blog now. Did you do anything since posting to make it appear?
Eastern Standard Tribe - loved it enough to buy 5 copies for friends
Actually, employees of mine at the time.
"Tribes are ways of getting things done."
Cory Doctorow - Someone comes to town?
Yes it was added months ago.
http://www.dailylit.com/books/someone-comes-to-town-someone-leaves-town
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town - Really freaky but I really liked it
You don't get this mix, of the surreal with real-world public-policy, from too many people
Accelerando - one of my favorite books of last few years
Esp the first third, where things are relatively close to current reality. Awesome vision of transitional period.
Scroogled - Funny but scary
And all too believable.
100 Ways to Succeed/Make Money - 100 ways? I'm not even sticking around for #3...
Some people choose to accept narrow lessons from people they don't in-general respect. Others choose to discount any signal coming from someone for whom they've flipped the bozo (or evil) bit.
Of course, even if you learn a lesson from a bozo, you don't have to give them public credit. But that has its own weird side-effects, too...
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom - where in the future are we?
So, we've got longevity/immortality.
And some sort of serious human interface to the net (assuming that "HUD" isn't built into glasses).
We have some amount of off-world travel.
Physical space (on Earth) is increasingly crowded.
But starvation doesn't seem to be an issue. (At least not for someone who's living with space shortages.) (Unless it's so natural to the narrator that he doesn't bother mentioning it.)
Pride and Prejudice - last two chapters
Please forward an empty-fragment email to support@dailylit.com and we'll take a look right away.
thx!
Ideas - Blackberry Launcher?
There's already a generic launcher that alerts you to having unread email.
http://www.software-for-blackberry.com/launcher.html
Do you not like reading your installments through email?
Another approach is install one of the free RSS reader applications. NewsGator is popular on many platforms, but there are many other Blackberry-specific options.
http://www.newsgator.com/Individuals/NewsGatorGo/Default.aspx
http://allrss.com/rssreadersblackberry.html
Or is there something else driving your interest?