So in my pursuit to read what I would consider the classics in literature, I came to A Clockwork Orange.  I had watched Kubrick's version many times, although it's been years prior to this, and thought that I should really give Burgess a try. 

The language really amazed me, the somewhat Russian-influenced teenage speak of this alternate England...although it's in the movie, I didn't realize that the entire book was written as a naritive, and in this dialect.  That being said, it did not detract from the story one bit, in fact it added to the uniqueness, and was fairly easy to decipher in context...not to mention Alex (Your Humble Narrator) himself does include the definitons of a fair amount of words.

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As it's probably no secret, I believe that Rails is the answer that so many web developers are looking for. Compared to programming in PHP, Rails is just fun...and you never feel like the project is getting out of hand.

However, there is still one issue that all web developers have to deal with, whether they're using PHP, ASP, JSP, or even Rails...the front end. That combination of (X)HTML, XML, CSS, and JavaScript. Now, the worst part isn't learning and knowing how to use those languages properly...it's knowing how to use them improperly to make real world browsers (specifically Internet Explorer) display your pages the way you intended them to.

<>Now I can, and have, gone on long tirades as to how I think all the browser vendors need to get their asses in gear and make their bRead on... Submit the first comment!

Armageddon in Retrospect is the most recent, posthumous, Kurt Vonnegut book of short stories, speeches, and a letter...and it is wonderful! It's a book about war, how can that be wonderful? Well, when it has the whit and personal experiences of Kurt Vonnegut, war can be made fun to read about.

The book does give some background (through Kurt and his son Mark) about Vonnegut's time in WWII, where he survived the bombings of Dresden as a POW held by the Nazi's. Anyone who has read Slaughterhouse Five would already know this background: "The war parts, anyways, are pretty much true."

<> Many of the short stories, in some way, reference WWII, Dresden, or Germany. It's also amazing to see what sorts of twists one of the greatest American writers is able to do with such shortRead on...