Welcome to Nic's Core Dump. Enjoy.
To the undecided voter
Nic can’t understand how, in the most polarized election in history, anybody can be an undecided voter.
Review: Here Comes Everybody
An important book on how technology is changing society.
Review: The Name of the Wind
Impressive first novel of a planned trilogy.
Review: The Last Colony
The weakest novel in John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War Universe.
The cheese and the damage done
Nic is not impressed with Who Moved My Cheese.
Review: The Moment It Clicks
A must-read for anybody interested in photography.
Movie roundup, part eight
Resident Evil: Extinction, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, I am Legend, Battlestar Galactica: Razor, The Kingdom and Revolver.
No diacriticals for you and your yuppie toy!
The iPhone keyboard doesn’t support Swedish characters so Nic files a Radar bug.
Review: The Overachievers
Deeply disturbing book about the pressures of high-achieving high school students.
Review: Woken Furies
The third installment in Richard Morgan’s Takeshi Kovacs saga is great.
On through the night
Nic reports on his and his daughter's flight to Sweden.
Conspicuous consumption
Nic and his wife buy a brand-new Acura TL. It’s a beautiful machine.
Review: The Dragon Never Sleeps
Glen Cook delivers epic, dense space opera.