By: Kees Verhoeven | Rating: 3/5I found a pile of these in a cupboard at work and reqd it over the weekend.. I've met Kees a few times and love his passion for government IT. His book is a compendium of all he was involved in in his political years. Sadly the book is already dated; most things are way worse now, and...

Still by far the most fun way to practice data minimisation.

By: Thomas M. Nichols | Rating: 5/5This is a re-read (Total reads: 2).Tom Nichols wrote this in 2017, and all he describes only got worse. We're stuck in a spiral of education standards dropping, people embracing ignorance and experts talking about things outside their area. We are asked our opinions on things we...

By: Iain M. Banks | Rating: 5/5At the start I was a bit sceptical about the whole game theme, but the novel quickly became a very interesting tale of the Culture.

By: Clare Wood, Karen Littleton, Kieron Sheehy | Rating: 2/5Reread this old study book from the wife to see if there was anything interesting in it. But it's kind of dated, and these books focus a little bit too much on who researched what, and not so much the full story of how we diagnose certain things or why we...

By: Joel Kotkin | Rating: 1/5What an absolutely godawful book. Kotkin has obviously no interest or any knowledge of the European feudal societies of medieval times. He uses this lack of knowledge to shoehorn his theory into. It just doesn't work. Yes, big tech entrepreneurs are rich arseholes. That has nothing to do...

By: Iain M. Banks | Rating: 5/5This series was recommend to me, because I was complaining about all Science Fiction nowadays seemed distinctly distopian. Well, this actually includes an utopian society. The book has a lot of humor and great world building. The action is constant, and there are no boring bits in it.

By: Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna | Rating: 5/5The authors make a very clear argument against all merit of the current Media extrusion machines being peddled by Silicon Valley. The book lays it all out in all the details. Unfortunately it's not helpful in giving tools how to fight back, although that is to be...

An old picture I liked. I took it during the Covid pandemic as a joke. It's my take in what an EDC kit would look like from then on. With a bottle of 'medicinal' wodka, of course.

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky | Rating: 3/5A little frustrating to read, as seems to be the standard for this series. I liked the lost colony idea, but the presentation is very fragmented. I guess that's on purpose, but it doesn't work for me. I wont be getting part 4 of the series, I'm done.

Alexander's high tech laboratory still needed something on the roof. This James Webb Telescope seems to do the job just fine.

By: Diederik Baazil | Rating: 1/5The book describes the political headwinds the Dutch company ASML found itself in, after people found out what the strategic importance of their products was. It is however a very light book. It glances over ASML's history, jumps back and forth in the timeline, and it keeps repeating...