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We'll return to the School of Tom Clancy for Book Review No. 1 in 2017.  This time it's Mark Greaney's True Faith and Allegiance, and it's much more compelling than Grant Blackwood's Duty and Honor, which merited a perfunctory, disappointed review toward the end of 2016.  I'm not the only Clancy enthusiast to note differences in performance among ( Read more... )

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In life, Red China is making territorial claims that aren't sitting well with neighboring countries.  I Threat Vector, the latest from the school of Tom Clancy, the Red Chinese first do all that is within their power to take down the secret, super-competent Counter Terrorism Unit that got its start in Red Rabbit,  passes a few field tests in The ( Read more... )

Book 1: Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson - 598 pages

Description from bookdepository.co.uk:
From the author of the bestselling biographies of Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein, this is the exclusive biography of Steve Jobs.Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years--as well as interviews with more than a hundred family ( Read more... )

So, 2012 is over. The world didn't end as 'prophesied' by the Mayans. The Olympics went off without a hitch - over for another four years (Summer Olympics obviously; in my part of the world the Winter Olympics are a non-event). The Queen had her Diamond Jubilee, and I got to be living in London for it. I spent ten weeks working in Uxbridge, UK - ( Read more... )