zacharyc

I shop for mostly non-fiction books. Most of these books tend to be on new and emerging technologies. When I’m purchasing a book on a technology, I really want to know the content of the book before I purchase it. What I really want is a table of contents. Just a list of the chapter lists and maybe even a more detailed list of the topics covered in each chapter, but at least some form of the table of contents would be very helpful in my purchasing decision. ...

Last Night I went to a few WWDC after parties. This being my first year in the SF bay area, I wanted to make an effort to meet more Apple people, and while I couldn’t quite afford attending WWDC, I wanted to make it down there to meet some of the people. Mike was planning on attending the Webkit Party yesterday, but as the day wore on, he was less and less definite about his attendance, as he was already tired from a wild Monday night. So that left me with no one to go with. Now, I’m not overly shy, but I always like having a starting point in a crowd. Without Mike, I felt it would have been difficult to find that point (He works for Apple and therefore knows a bunch of people at webkit). ...

I often have ideas for good blog posts, but never get around to actually writing them. There are several reasons for this, but one stands above the rest. I hate large bodies of text. I hate reading them, and therefore I hate writing them for other people to read them. There is nothing more annoying than trying to read a long block of text. Even in some of the blogs that I have followed in past, if they don’t break up their posts with diagrams or pictures or lists, I often have a hard time following. ...

I recently returned for a visit to CT for the wedding of two of my good friends. And while the wedding was amazing, the ride from and to the airport was not. I decided to try the Connecticut Limousine at the suggestion of my mother. Bottom line I would not recommend them again. Here are some reasons: The are relatively slow They Pack more people into the van than is actually comfortable The shocks in the van’s they use are absolutely dead, and that makes for a very uncomfortable ride on the bad roads to and from the airport The air conditioning doesn’t always work Add all these factors together and you end up with a rather uncomfortable ride. There are some good things. Their timing was pretty good, and the drivers were nice, but that is not enough to redeem themselves from the rest of the negative qualities. ...

Originally uploaded by zacharyc For those of you who I haven’t told personally yet (or haven’t seen me update my facebook profile), I have moved across country. I moved from New York City to Menlo Park, CA. This is just one of a few pictures I’ve posted from my trip across country. This was picture was taken of the mountains of Nevada in the morning on my last day of a week long drive. ...