computer technology

Shop Class as Soul Craft by Michael Crawford


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Jan 19, 2011

The author chucked a lucrative professional career (he was head of an international NGO at the time) as he began to feel increasingly isolated from whatever it was his efforts were supposed to be producing.  He knew the organization was important, and he understood that it accomplished valuable goals.  But his sense of accomplishment and satisfaction in a job well done was diminishing.  So he chose to pursue a more satisfying occupation - repairing motorcycles.

Shop Class as Soul Craft is his manifesto on the humanity of labor, the essential value of learning by doing, of mastering through

Windows 7 Secrets by Paul Thurott and Rafael Rivera


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Oct 12, 2010

Windows 7 Secrets by Paul Thurott and Rafael RiveraI read computer technology books and will on occasion review books from this category.

If you have used Microsoft Windows XP or Microsoft Vista and have now migrated to the Microsoft Windows 7 operating system, Windows 7 Secrets by Paul Thurott and Rafael Rivera is well worth reading. It includes many of this operating system's powerful new capabilities that you may not even know exist. The book is over 1000 pages in length. I read this book from cover to cover and comprehended the topics much better by working through this book's examples. I used a computer with Microsoft Windows 7 Home