The wonderful and highly talented Erin Knowles designed me a new home page – bio, CV, books, etc – that is very, very cool. It looks very speck and is nice and simple. I like nice and simple.
Erin also makes funny little things called efki star creatures which would seem to make perfect gifts for kiddies.
P.S. This doesn’t mean this page goes away – that’s my “this is me the author page and the projects I work on ” page. This page stays as the “this is my blog page” etc.
My new book, Pro Linux System Administration, is coming out on June 22nd, 2009. It’s written with my friends Pete and Den. Here’s a little bit of a blurb:
“We can all be Linux experts, provided we invest the time in learning the craft of Linux administration. Pro Linux System Administration makes it easy for small to medium-sized businesses to enter the world of zero-cost software running on Linux and covers all the distros you might want to use, including Red Hat, Ubuntu, Debian, and CentOS. Authors, and systems infrastructure experts James Turnbull, Peter Lieverdink, and Dennis Matotek take a layered, component-based approach to open source business systems, while training system administrators as the builders of business infrastructure.”
So the latest book, Pro Linux System Administration
Must admit this was a lot of hard work. Incredibly unmotivated on a few occasions and whilst I think I need a little break from writing I’ve got another project to finish this year.
I’ve worked out I’ve written somewhere in the region of a thousand pages in the last five years. Which is quite a bit really – somewhere in the region of 500,000 words. Just thinking about it makes me tired.
Another blog meme – taken from Stewart Smith:
* Grab the nearest book.
* Open it to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
* Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
“The ’spirit of direct communication’ is to learn the true path of Niten Ichiryu and to pass it on.”
Mine is Miyamoto Musashi’s The Book of Five Rings. Honestly. It’s the closest book to hand. I bought it for Ruth and she has studiously not read it.
My new book has gone up on Amazon. The publisher has uploaded their Q1 catalogue and its now there in its full glory. Very chuffed. Now just to finish the final chapter and edit all the others and and and …. 
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