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Title for Fun

Sword of Damocles (Star Trek: Titan, Book 4)
[ http://www.amazon.com/Sword-Damocles-Star-Trek-Titan/dp/1416526943]

The Veiled Prophet (Diablo: The Sin War, Book 3)
[Richard A. Knaak, http://www.amazon.com/Veiled-Prophet-Diablo-Sin-Book/dp/0743471245];

Technical Reads

Pro JavaScript Design Patterns
[Ross Harmes,Dustin Diaz, http://www.apress.com/book/view/159059908x]

I must admit I am loving this Javascript book.

Here is the Table of Contents for the book

PART 1 Object-Oriented JavaScript

• CHAPTER 1 Expressive JavaScript
• CHAPTER 2 Interfaces
• CHAPTER 3 Encapsulation and Information Hiding
• CHAPTER 4 Inheritance
• CHAPTER 5 The Singleton Pattern.
• CHAPTER 6 Chaining

PART 2 Design Patterns

• CHAPTER 7 The Factory Pattern
• CHAPTER 8 The Bridge Pattern
• CHAPTER 9 The Composite Pattern
• CHAPTER 10 The Facade Pattern
• CHAPTER 11 The Adapter Pattern
• CHAPTER 12 The Decorator Pattern
• CHAPTER 13 The Flyweight Pattern
• CHAPTER 14 The Proxy Pattern
• CHAPTER 15 The Observer Pattern.
• CHAPTER 16 The Command Pattern
• CHAPTER 17 The Chain of Responsibility Pattern

After putting the job off for a few months I have have a new phone (Nokia 6500 Slide), it was really an impulse buy at $400 from my local Vodafone store.

I was looking for a phone with Bluetooth (very common now) and a camera above 3 megapixel , both of which this had. It is also a 3G phone, which helps with the future proof. It also looks cool to.

The coolest feature is not actually related to the phone, I purchased a new mp3 player some weeks ago the Samsung  YP-T10, this player also contains a Bluetooth option.

This Bluetooth option allows the phone to connect to the mp3 player as a remote headset. The T10 can then be used to make and answer incoming calls using its own inbuilt microphone.

I did have a problem previously of missing calls when listening to mp3's, not any more :-) 

Interesting Links

HTML or XHTML: Does It Really Matter?

http://www.sitepoint.com/article/html-or-xhtml-does-it-matter

I found this article an interesting read , however I disagree with James Edwards option on XHTML's legacy, simply forcing cleaner syntax on the Internet is an achievement in itself, it really does not matter that the content type is normal html, using xhtml valuators can help to overcome issues with testing and the benefits that clean markup provide in improving  browser page rendering-consistency is worth learning a few new syntax rules.

Handling Flash Crowds from your Garage

http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix08/tech/full_papers/elson/elson_html/index.html

This is a research article on developing web-sites to handle large surges in traffic, what the author called Flash Crowds, I am only part way through, the main content of the article is short analysis of current content distribution networks, a good read so far.