It’s been a couple of weeks since I’ve finished reading the book “Cosmic Jackpot” by Paul Davies (ISBN: 978-0618592265) and I’m still impressed by this wonderful book. Paul Davies is physicist and cosmologist and has written a number of popular science books on cosmology. In “The Cosmic Jackpot” Davies discusses one of the fundamental questions [...]

Omni Group has just released a first screencast that demonstrates a number of features of their upcoming Getting things done (GTD) application OmniFocus. There has been a lot of interest in OmniFocus since Omni announced it last year, also since Omni has chosen to feed the hype and occasionally blog about OmniFocus without revealing anything relevant. Thus, my expectations are pretty high and this first public presentation of OmniFocus leaves me with ambivalent feelings.

Recently, a couple of economics books that address the layman without prior knowledge in economics have been published. After their success in the US, these books have reached also Europe’s bookstores. The authors set out to prove the prejudice that economics is a dull and boring subject wrong. Tim Harford’s book The Undercover Economist is a book targeted at laymans in economy and proves that economics is neither dull nor boring.

Steve Wozniak iWoz (From Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It) ISBN-13: 978-0393061437 Steve Wozniak embodies the archetype of what people (sometimes disrespectfully) denote as a “nerd” or “computer geek”. He is doubtlessly a brilliant engineer and inventor, but on the other side, he is a shy [...]