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Book Reviews

Friday, August 6, 2004

Reviewing Dive into Python -- Comment()
I today received my review copy of Dive into Python by Mark Pilgrim from Apress. It is nice to have a printed version of this fine book which previously has been available only on the net. I'm a book lover and a recent Python enthusiast, so having Dive into Python in print is for me a big event.

As a sideline, here are (in Finnish) some recent book reviews which I wrote for the Tietoyhteys magazine:

Ishi, the last Yahi Indian -- Comment()
I am reading The Wave in the Mind by Ursula K. Le Guin. One of the essays in the book tells about Ishi, the last Yahi Indian, who was connected to Le Guin's parents, the anthropologists Alfred Kroeber and Theodora Kroeber. Here is some background about Ishi: "At the quiet center stood a man. He never said his real name -- to say it aloud to strangers would be unthinkable for a California Native American from the Yahi tribe -- so he became known as Ishi, his people's word for man. He spent almost 40 years living in isolation in the Mount Lassen foothills, one of the last dozen Yahi who hid themselves to avoid the white men who nearly wiped out their tribe."

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The Halliburton Stench: "Vice President Dick Cheney's tenure at Halliburton, the company he ran before returning to partisan politics in 2000, gets more and more questionable as facts come out. Consider what's happened in the past two days. [...] So either Cheney was willfully ignorant of an accounting shift that added tens of millions to the bottom line, or he was one of the people culpable for the move." [Dan Gillmor's eJournal]