Author: sroot
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My return to education begins…. in a distant sort of way
My return to education begins in just 2 hours. I say return but of course I’ve never stopped learning. However, I’ve signed up to a formal training course and paid a fair amount of money for the privilege. The course is “Zend PHP Essentials“. PHP is a programming language commonly used on web servers. It’s…
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Sharpe's Trafalgar (Bernard Cornwell)
I said a few weeks ago that since reading Bernard Cornwell’s ‘Saxon’ series I was going to buy some of his Sharpe books to read. Having always avoided the “Sharpe’s…” books I’m now going to be searching them out. They’re great! It seems the only downside of seeing Sharpe on TV is that I now…
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Imperial Earth (Arthur C Clarke)
While I am glad to have read this book, it’s not one I’d have missed reading. I’m not sure quite why I feel that way about it. It had a great deal of astonishing and logical detail of technology of the future (from ‘mining’ hydrogen gas from the atmosphere of Titan to sensor arrays to…