STG's

(Posting in portuguese, as the referred drive is on sale on several local merchants) Estava para comprar um Seagate Expansion Drive 1.5 TB, externo. O preço é bem razoável. Aí fui olhar as reviews... Recomendo que se você estiver pensando em comprar, leia também antes. Muita gente, mas muita gente MESMO teve problemas com o drive morrer depois de comprar. O termo click-of-death infelizmente não morreu com a Iomega e o ZIP drive. Obviamente, algo que não é muito aceitável...

Another very late post. I downloaded Everyday Genius SquareLogic Demo because of a Steam weekend sale. Unfortunately, I didn't get around to playing it until way after the weekend, because the demo is very nice. It's a variation of Sudoku, which I really like, and will no doubt remind anyone who played Kakuro (also called Cross Sums) of it. Every puzzle is a grid of numbers, which has blocks where an operation (sum, equals, minus, etc) on those numbers must equal the specified result. As usual, you can't repeat numbers inside a grid. If you like Sudoku, definitely worth trying.

I read this one quite a few weeks ago, but was too lazy to get around to posting. :-) It's another military sci-fi book featuring the Bolos, sentient super tanks. This one is a collection of short stories about Bolos, with very different styles and situations. As usual for collections, the quality varies, but there were very nice stories in this bunch. Worth reading if you like this style of military sci-fi.

Debug it! was another nice book from Pragmatic Programmers. As in any technical book, what you take as useful information depends on what you didn't know in the first place. While I was familiar with many of the practices discussed in the book (and use a few, such as the excellent EurekaLog, which is a huge help when debugging user problems), I learned quite a few new things. There is quite a bit of recommendations for teams, which seemed very useful, although they don't apply in my case. Well worth the time, specially as it is not very long.