BillSeitz is not currently reading any books.
I’m 50 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
- The Little Big Things by Tom Peters finished
- The 50th Law finished
- Heroes For My Son finished
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Tips for High School Students From a High School Student finished
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Promissory Payback finished
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You're Only as Sick as Your Secrets finished
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Anonymous finished
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You Can't Judge a Book by its Cover finished
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An Unfinished Death finished
- 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
- The Scarlet Letter finished
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100 Ways to Succeed/Make Money finished
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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
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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
- Moby Dick suspended
- Little Brother suspended
- Madame Bovary suspended
- This Moment on Earth suspended
- Many Thoughts of Many Minds (Quotations) suspended
- The Mysterious Affair at Styles suspended
- Clarissa Volume 4 suspended
- Emma suspended
- Don Quixote suspended
- Clarissa Volume 2 suspended
- Crime and Punishment suspended
- War and Peace 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
Tips for High School Students From a High School Student - Very generic. Each tip too brief to have much value.
Reading on behalf of my middle-school son. I can't imagine him reading this would make him a more successful or happier student. I could be wrong.
Maybe reading the right nugget at the right time could provide a timely jiggle/whack.
I'm hoping Cal Newport's coming-soon non-free High-School Superstar book will be a whole lot better than this thing.
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?