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This is nice – I just found out that The OLED Handbook is #980 best selling Lulu.com book. Lulu is one of the most popular print-on-demand book publishers today. I’m very pleased with the sales of the Handbook, so this is not really surprising – but still nice The Lulu sales rank takes into account [...]

I just finished reading a great book, The Telling by Ursula Le Guin. Ursula is one of my favorite authors (and her “The Dispossessed” book is one of my favorite books) – and this is one of her finest books. It’s amazing how she’s able to create a convincing world with an interesting philosophy/religion in [...]

I just finished reading one of the best books I’ve ever read – Playful Parenting, by Lawrence Cohen. Yeah, it’s a sort of guide to raising children, and it’s the best I’ve read to date. This book is filled with so many good ideas and tips that it’s hard to even give examples. Basically his [...]

Here’s the second large project I’ve been working on lately – The OLED Handbook, a guide to OLED technology, industry and market. I believe that this book provides the best introduction to the world of OLEDs – and covers everything you need and want to know about this exciting technology. I launched the book today [...]

Tags: book, e-book, handbook, OLED, OLED Lighting, OLED TV

I’ve just finished yet another environmental book: The Ecology of Commerce (by Paul Hawken).  The book is from ’93, which makes it rather old (can you believe it’s almost 20 years since ’93?) – but it’s still excellent and highly recommended. The main thesis of this book is that the markets today are not efficient, [...]

Tags: ecology, economy, Environment, green

Avid readers of my blog (hey mom!) know that I usually blog on books I read. The good ones, anyway. Here’s the ones I read in Chengdu. I read all of them in Hebrew, by the way. Long Lost, Harlan Coben. OK, it’s a Harlan Coben book, which is pretty lame. But it was a [...]

You probably know that Salman Rushdie is one of my favorite authors, and I finally got around to reading The Satanic Verses. I don’t know why it took me so long. It’s one of his best books, I really enjoyed it, recommended!!!

It’s been a while since I posted here… but don’t worry – I’m still alive.  Busy, but alive.  Abigail is still taking up most of our time. She’s growing nicely (well, not a lot, weight wise) and getting more fun by the day. Now it’s mostly saying “Abba” to everything and everyone (pointing randomly at [...]

A lot of people want to start developing a web site, and for some reason talk to me about it.  Many are developers,  just starting out with web development…  I always recommend reading a book called “Building Scalable Web Sites“.  It’s a great read, with lot’s of info on hosting, DB, programming, security, performance, scalability [...]

I just finished reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. That’s the last one (#7) – and I must say it was very good. I really liked all Harry Potters. I remember reading the first one during my NZ Trip, I think it was in the buscot Station.  I thought I wouldn’t like it (too [...]