Michael J. Dillon

When I started this blog, all of a few weeks ago, I thought I would follow my progression through some of the CS stuff I’m doing on the side. But that’s even more boring than what I type about when I’m just filling space. So, I think, from here in, I’ll just talk about whatever I’m reading. And not topics like the fact that I keep databases on various pieces of data that I pull off the internet, which may or may not go into a future project of mine.

As to my reading, its quite disjointed; I’m usually reading several things at once. Take right now, I’m in the middle of The Prince (up to ch 23), Security Analysis (up to ch 3), and a book on the history of cod (Ch 4).

I’m usually reading about three things at once, it keeps my sanity, as I actually read quite a bit of very dry stuff that is wildly interesting in small doses. Everything I read tends to fall into three very broad categories, financial history, the political development of the United States, and occasionally a novel. Right now everything on my plate is finance, including the cod book. (Cod was one of the first internationally traded agricultural commodities.) Though whatever I finish next will get replaced with the memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant.

Unless I change my mind…

Lets see if I can come up with an interesting post on any of the last few books I’ve read. It might be a way to keep this interesting. (At least to me.)

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