In retrospect I should have probably read Ronald P Hunter's Automated Process Control Systems: concepts and Hardware as a 2nd year student, and not saved it until I had graduated and worked as a programmer/support tech. Although it was enlightening to read it later, I would have been able to handle it "good enough" as early as mid 2005. It is a ( Read more... )

Two, interrelated things I'm taking from this book are ( Read more... )

Finished: Rise of the Computer State, by David Burnham.Quite the book. Excellent reading to Off the Hook episodes from the early 90's/late 80's. In fact, I think that's where I initially got the inspiration to read it. Anyway ( Read more... )