Book Review: "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair

It’s not often that I get to read a book that is as big an eye opener as “The Jungle“. It’s on the same plane as “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” and from what I read afterwards, was far more instrumental in bringing direct change to one of the largest industries in America based in Chicago – … Read more

Book Review: Wheel of Time Series

For just over a month now, I’ve been reading the “Wheel of Time” series like a maniac! Hence the lack of posts recently. Usually I enjoy writing a bit before starting work, but lately I haven’t been able to help reading the books. But all that’s over now. 11 books completed (Knife of Dreams being the last till now), leaving me feeling a bit empty – as I knew I would feel before it got over. So it’s time to restart the blogging and what better than to review this awesome series.

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Firefox Ubiquity – Character Count Command

Now that Ubiquity 0.5 is out, Erik’s Character Count Command no longer works. So I have updated it and if you have Ubiquity Firefox, the command bar should have appeared on top for you. Here is the code: CmdUtils.CreateCommand({ names: [‘char-count’], arguments: [ {role: ‘object’, nountype: noun_arb_text, label: ‘text to count chars in’}], preview: function( … Read more

Book Review: She by H. Rider Haggard

My latest read has been “She” by H. Rider Haggard. I found it using Wikipedia’s list of Top 100 bestselling books of all time. I’ve previously had bad experiences with such lists from Wikipedia. For example, it listed “Citizen Kane” as the #1 movie of all time. They didn’t mention that it was also the … Read more