(identity 'myron)

Thu, 13 Jan 2005

Marathon Trilogy [/games]

Hot damn, Bungie released the old Marathon Trilogy for free download today. The PC world had Doom and we had Marathon. This brings back memories of summer computer camp. Nyeah.

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Chapters.ca vs Amazon.ca [/books]

Just a heads up for people that buy a lot of books. I hadn't noticed it so much before, but some books vary wildly in price between chapters.ca and amazon.ca. I bought Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming from chapters.ca last night for $68.35 (membership price, normal is $71.95) while it's listed at $93.95 on amazon.ca. That's a pretty big difference.... I'm starting to wonder if it's a mistake on Chapters' part since Amazon.com lists it at $66.95 USD. I'm buying almost at par.

Anyway, the lesson here is always to check both sites before buying. And of course, there's Half Price Computer Books, but they never have any of the books I want since they seem to cater mostly to Joe Linux, generic IT guy or the Bill Gates worshippers of the world. Although it's where I happened upon the Scheme book that got me back into the language.... A freak accident, I think, considering it's not even listed on their online catalogue.

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