Digitally Disillusioned

Something I’ve wanted to do ever since that first time I thought about starting a blog - I was in the middle of a threesome - was to maintain a backlog. What is a backlog? It is a list of the media I intend to consume in the near future including books, movies, video games, and whatever else I want to talk about. Consuming ideas - which is what media contains - should spur conversation, or at the very least do so more than my continued whinging and complaining.

So, hot off a trip to the bookstore, lets take a look at what is in my bag as onto the backlog it goes now that His Dark Materials is finished, entirely underwhelming third book and all.

jPod, by Douglas Coupland

I got this book because it uses video game development as a theme, and thats one of those things that at the moment I’ll indulge most anything in. A flip through revealed some interesting typographic games which can be interesting if not abused (I am looking at you House of Leaves you stupid arbitrarily dense oh-I-am-so-clever book of stupidity). I certainly did not buy this book because I enjoyed his previous writing because oh boy I did not. I actually kind of hated it. It will be fun to see if I can finish this.

Head First PMP, Jennifer Greene and Andrew Stellman

Because I’m going to finish what I started even though Agile Development is so much better for software.

I Don’t Believe in Athiests by Chris Hedges 

This guy was on The Sunday Edition with Michael Enright and man did he say some smart things that were correctly critical of the secular left which I otherwise adore. His book was really overpriced but I want to read more of his ideas, I hope he doesn’t let me down.