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Yes after a long wait Delicious Library 2 has Arrived! You can get it here.

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Hey it's all happening this week! Apparently the latest and greatest version of Aaron Hillegass great book is out. That's right Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X's 3rd Edition is out and its about as up-to-date as you can get for a physical printed reference like this one.

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I recently had occasion to revisit "Misspent Youth " by Peter. F. Hamilton. Why? Well because certain characters reappear in Peter Hamilton's new book "The Dreaming Void" and because I appear to have a mind like a sieve when it comes to fictional characters. Either that or I read it so long ago it's gone out of my short term storage...

If you're a fan of the Commonwealth Series then I can highly recommend this new book which picks up 1500 years after Judas Unchained. I should mention that I'm only about half way through TDV so I may not like it by the end - but I consider that to be highly unlikely at this point.

As you can imagine a lot happens in the 1500 years so Peter Hamilton has kindly provided a timeline to fill in the gap. So, rush out and grab your copy or follow this link to "The Dreaming Void" and make me a few cents richer - either way if you've read the previous Commonwealth books you'll want to read this one.

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I'm one of those people that used to bring laptops to meetings and ended up weening myself off the process because I was missing important parts of the meeting. Unfortunately it wasn't a conscious action on my behalf, because if it had been I would have instituted a lap ban a long time ago, I probably would've killed off a weekly production meeting as well... Anyway this post, by Michael Lopp is worth reading for anyone that goes to meetings... and that is nearly all of us at some point or another.

Here's the start of it to wet your appetite...

I recently spoke at Yahoo! about the book, and, for this presentation, I adapted the Agenda Detection and Meeting Creatures chapters into a piece about how I assess agendas and people in the first 10 minutes of any meeting.

Early on in the presentation, I asked the audience, "What are the things you are supposed to do to make a successful meeting?" First hand: "Make sure everyone closes their laptop." Yes. Full agreement from me. If you're sitting in my meeting and your laptop is open, I promise, I swear -- you are giving me half of your attention. Maybe less.

The Yahoos couldn't drop the topic. In Q&A, the laptop question came up. In the post-presentation mingle it came up again. Everyone wanted to know if there was a situation where it was OK to whip out the laptop.

My answer, over and over again, is "No."

Now, this is religion and not reality because it's likely I'll bring my laptop to a couple of meetings this week, but I am ultimately fucking up by doing this. Here's why.

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