Book Review – When Sysadmins Ruled The World

I guess this doesn’t technically count as a book as it’s actually a short story…but I enjoyed it so much I wanted to write about it anyway! We’ve all heard about nuclear bunkers and it’s been written about in fiction and movies about how important world figures would disappear into these bunkers in the event

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Book Review – Beautiful Red

Based on my past experience with Little Brother this was another Creative Commons book I managed to pick up for my Kindle. This book actually needs to be thought about in two parts. The idea behind it and the story that goes with it. So what’s the idea? Think about how the Internet is entrenched

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Book Review–Little Brother

This is the first book I read entirely on my Kindle and I stumbled across it totally by accident. I was browsing around the GoodReads site (which if you’re a reader it’s worth signing up for – it’s like the worlds largest book club!) and I was looking at lists that some of my favourite

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Book Review: Aliens Genocide

I picked this up ages ago on market stall selling old books. Aliens is pretty standard geek fare and as a teenager I was obsessed with both Aliens and Predator. I haven’t read any Aliens fiction for ages so thought I’d change that since book has been sat on the shelf for a while. The

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Amazon Kindle–Should I? Shouldn’t I?

I mentioned recently about how much I like to read. Surely for a techie, getting an Amazon Kindle is a no-brainer? Things is I’m really torn. With my technical head on it makes perfect sense. An entire library in my pocket. Books available on demand, no waiting for deliveries, shelf space at home reclaimed! The

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Book Review: Network Your Computers & Devices Step by Step

I need to stop reading so fast otherwise I’ll need to rename this to Andy’s Reading Blog! The Microsoft Press Facebook page were looking for people to review this new book so I put my hand up and I was lucky enough to get a copy of the ebook to take a peek at. I’m

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Book Review–Halo Evolutions (Volume 1 and 2)

One of the things I really enjoy about the Halo series of games is the back story and for Halo fans there has been plenty of fiction thrown up which I’ve been more than happy to read! So when I saw Halo Evolutions and Halo Evolutions Volume 2 on Amazon I ordered them straight away.

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