I wonder if anyone else has noticed but Amazon isn’t so cheap for books any more.  At least Amazon Japan.
I usually browse through books on Amazon and use the “Save for later” options.   This has the effect of telling me of price changes since I last logged on.  And prices have been going up in [...]

Posted on September 15th, 2007 by Ian Cheung
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Wow, if only all computer books were written in the same way. I received and am reading DOM Scripting by Jeremy Keith and although I’m only on Chapter 3 everything is snapping into place and just makes sense. I’ve always though of the DOM and DOM programming as something dense and complicated [...]

Posted on May 7th, 2007 by Ian Cheung
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Just finished reading The Tipping Point and Blink both by Malcom Gladwell. I have to agree with a lot of people including Justin who lent me the books, that the earlier book The Tipping Point is the better of the two.
Blink is a good read, but The Tipping Point is a lot [...]

Posted on May 24th, 2006 by Ian Cheung
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It’s coming up to Christmas. Christmas takes a back seat to New Year’s in Japan, I remember watching in shock when Christmas decorations were being pulled down before midnight on Christmas Day!
Anyway, as some friends have said I am a hard person to buy a present for, I thought I’d make it [...]

Posted on December 5th, 2005 by Ian Cheung
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Steve Krug
I can’t over-emphasis how much his single book Don’t Make Me Think influenced me and my shift from working in the general web design field to a more specialist role in IA & Usability.

Posted on June 20th, 2005 by Ian Cheung
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