Book recommendations and recent reads

Be aware, I feel books worth reading are ones that should affect your thinking on the world, your world view.  That means they should impact the most controversial topics…

 

 

Latest Reads - In Progress

               Christian Bible

               (Currently going through the book of Proverbs. I find the Contemporary English Version the translation I like the best, with World English Bible  being the freely available translation I like. The section of the Gospel of John and the 1st Letter to the Corinthians by Paul are good places to start, and the whole is beneficial.)

               Security Engineering by Ross Anderson:https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/book.html

               (It is slow going for me due to time constraints and the large size, but I like it.)

 

Latest Reads finished

               Francis Bacon's New Atlantis

 

Recommended

               U.S.A. Constitution and amendments

               DVZine 

               The Cathedral and the Bazaar

               Transparent Society

(Both an article and a book. Previously shared this with some in SBD on Teams)

In the Beginning was the Command Line

               (Excellent discussion of user interfaces approaches)

             Hackers, Heroes of the Computer Revolution by Steven Levy

               E-Books by Jules Verne at Project Gutenberg, https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/60

               E-Books by many other freely available at Project Gutenberg

 

Longer list (but still incomplete) available at

               https://www.librarything.com/catalog/hrabbey

               or

               https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/155915753-howard-abbey

               (My rating scale is 1 = worth reading, 3 = really good, 5 = a must read)

 

 

Another tidbit:

My wife Jodi is a voracious reader, helps with our church library, and enjoys helping people find books that they might enjoy reading.

 

Enjoy,

Howard

Important topics to think about

I feel some items that should be publicized, promoted, and seriously considered by all:
1. The claims of Jesus the Christ to be the way to heaven and to be the supreme leader, as expressed in Christianity, summarized in the first letter to the Corinthians, chapter 15 verses 3-8.
2. The constitution of the United States of America, including its amendments, especially the second, first, and fourth.  Eric Raymond has written up and collected good support of bearing arms.

In addition, some items that should be publicized, promoted, and seriously considered by most:
3. Dvorak keyboard layout, explained well at DVZine.
4. Freely shareable s/w, as supported by the Free Software Foundation, and other shareable content available under Creative Commons or other licensing.

If you wish any more information on any of these, or more of my personal reasoning, feel free to ask me.  There is plenty of on-line information, along with plenty of misleading on-line information.
Sincerely,
Howard Abbey