Open-Source Publisher Packt Reaches 1000th Title

Packt, publisher of many worthy books about technology topics that have helped me know what I’m doing, is about to publish their 1000th book. Many Packt titles, such as Sakai CLE Courseware Management: The Official Guide, books on Drupal, and jQuery have been my guides to the open-source technologies I use every day. To celebrate, … Read more

W.G. Sebald’s Rings of Saturn

As our inaugural book, we read W.G. Sebald‘s Rings of Saturn. Quotes [79-80] I suppose it is submerged memories that give to dreams their curious air of hyper-reality. But perhaps there is something else as well, something nebulous, gauze-like, through which everything one sees in a dream seems, paradoxically, much clearer. A pond becomes a … Read more