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Original Post: The one where I rediscover a book I never finished from years ago.
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Wow. I keep everything. Not in a packrat kind of way, my house is fairly
sparse. More in the 'digital packrat' kind of way. I'm sure I could find
my Quicken files from 1991, and my ANSI Art collection from earlier. Anyway,
I was digging through 75 gigs of crap I've collected over the years, cataloging (waiting
for WinFS) and came upon a draft of a computer book I never finished. The title?
Computer Zen: Straight Answers for the Non-Geek Living in the Digital Age
Sigh. This was the book that was going
to get me on Oprah. I gave up on it when I discovered that the book I wanted
to write was already written. It's called Code
by Charles Petzold. I recommended it to everyone as soon as I found it.
Anyway, I haven't edited it, just re-discovered it. I've put it up for your
perusal as ComputerZenUnfinishedBook.
It's a few chapters, a bunch of random notes, all brainstorming, and hardly cohesive.
If you feel it's useful, good for you. I'm sure if has errors, both technical
and spelling. Also, since I saved it from Word, the images are probably screwed
up. If you want to help me finish it and think it could serve a purpose different
than Code already does, email me.
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