Practical Advice for Using Computers with Smarts and Style:

Practical how-to guides on computers and technology are ubiquitous but many women find them off-putting. Theyre ugly, geeky, and written for men. While there are plenty of brilliant female geeks, computers and technology are very male fields and women are often left out. How to Be a Geek Goddess tackles technology from a womans perspective and is designed as a way in for the women who feel marginalized by this very male world. Written in the style of the popular Girlfriends Guides, How to Be a Geek Goddess targets women (ages 30+), with coverage of decidedly female-leaning topics like how to get more done in less time; fitting an ugly computer into a lovely living room; shopping for gear (whether a new computer or the latest television); parenting, health and fitness; online communities; and safety. Author Christina Wood writes in a conversational, girls-night-out style, keeping the book honest, and preventing it from morphing into a fake tech book for women.

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Currently I’m reading Barry Eislers “John Rain”-Series, in Germany also known as the Tokio Killer. I liked Rain Fall, and Hard Rain seems to be good book too (bought the books 1-4, and surpisingly noticed today that there’s a fifth one and that this is already translated into german and available as paperback).

John Rain, a Japanese American konketsu, or half-breed, learned his lethal trade as a member of the U.S. Special Forces. Although tortured by memories of atrocities he committed in Vietnam, he has become a paid assassin, a solitary man who lives in the shadows and trusts no one, even those who pay extraordinary sums for his ability to make murder look like natural death. But the aftermath of an otherwise routine hit on a government bureaucrat brings Rain to the attention of two men he knows from the old days in Vietnam: a friend who’s now a Tokyo cop and an enemy who betrayed Rain long ago and is now the CIA’s station chief in Japan. Like the gangster who hired Rain to kill Yasuhiro Kawamura, they want something the dead man had–a computer disk containing proof of high-level corruption, information that could destroy Japan’s ruling political coalition. The search for the disk leads them to a woman Rain has come to love, a talented young jazz musician who also happens to be Kawamura’s daughter.

Well, today I checked out Barry Eislers website and found three things — one I’ve been looking for, and two that suprised me. Actually I’ve been just looking for his blog (somehow I expected that he has one), but besides that I also know about the fifth book now and that ‘Rain Fall’ has been made into a movie starring Gary Oldman that will be released by Sony Pictures in April 2009. I had some varying ideas about John Rains look, so it’s a bit hard for me to believe that Gary Oldman fits into that role — but nevertheless, I’m really looking forward to see this movie.