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Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Six-word strories about information technology -- Comment()
Inspired by a recent Wired article about six-word short-short science fiction stories, I invented about two dozen stories on information technology. It was suprisingly easy to find ideas for this kind of writing. (In Finnish, Kuuden sanan tarinoita tietotekniikasta.)

New book reviews -- Comment()
Here are some new book reviews (written by me in Finnish). They originally appeared in the Tietoyhteys magazine.

Työn sanat (Tuomas Nevanlinna ja Jukka Relander; Teos, 2006)
Uuden työn sanakirja (toim. Mikko Jakonen, Jukka Peltokoski ja Akseli Virtanen; Tutkijaliitto, 2006)
Hyvä kirja (toim. Pirjo Hiidenmaa, Raimo Jussila ja Annika Nissinen; Suomen tietokirjailijat ry, 2006)
Maailmanviiva - Albert Einstein ja moderni fysiikka (Jukka Maalampi; Ursa, 2006)

In total, I have written about 110 book reviews, which is a bit suprising, but on the other hand, writing one, e.g., monthly is not a great task as such. There are so many good books which benefit from each bit of publicity they can get. (Unfortunately quite few people write book reviews any more.)