• Bookshelf
  • Top Shelf
    • Perl Cookbook
    • Running Linux
    • MySQL & mSQL
    • Learning the bash shell
    • Schwager on Technical Analysis
    • Last three years of DayTimer booklets
  • Second Shelf
    • Digital modem w/ two stuffed animals from fiancee
    • 'TALEX' carved from a single block of wood
    • scanner
    • hub
    • old audio tapes
    • unused phone
  • Third Shelf
    • XML-RPC
    • Cascading Style Sheets
    • HTML & XHTML
    • Programming PHP (gag)
    • HTML
    • The C Programming Language, K&R (with original receipt dated November, 1981 from UW bookstore)
    • Writing Apache Modules with Perl and C
    • Java in a Nutshell
    • XSLT
    • JavaScript
    • Turbo C Reference guide (about ten years old -- Borland)
    • Learning the vi editor
    • Designed Active Server Pages (gag again)
    • stack of fan-fold paper for dot matrix printer
    • various audio and video tapes
    • 17" monitor
    • empty file folder
    • various manuals on CPU and monitor
    • Cheesy digital clock giveaway from Inc. magazine
  • Fourth Shelf
    • cranky HP LJ 1100 printer that insists on printing using a dozen or more sheets at once.
    • Two year old P3-450 w/384M RAM with cover off after installing new memory. Cover should be back on in time for Christmas.
    • Various 3 1/2" diskettes, dust bunnies
  • Bottom Shelf
    • even crankier Sharp FO-760 fax that forgets to ingest paper until the received page is half way through. Thanks, I didn't need that fax anyway. </ul
• Desk
  • Dusty box of business cards
  • Box of 5 1/4" and 3 1/2" diskettes. Don't ask what the 5 1/4" diskettes are doing here, the last machine that had a drive that took those hasn't been turned on in three years.
  • Can with assorted pens, markers, nail file, steak knide letter opener and flowcharting template.
  • More business cards
  • Lamp
  • Photos of my two sisters and my cousins.
  • printout of CGI.pm doco
  • replacement ribbon for dot matrix printer sold a year ago
  • Perl DBI
  • Programming Perl (3rd edition -- 2nd edition now retired on another bookcase)
  • various boxes of cheques
  • unopened pack of Trident gum
  • Junk mail from register.com
  • headphones
  • P.Eng. stamp with stamp pad
  • rosters for East York Barbershoppers going back a few years
  • roster for Board of Trade Young Professionals (February 1999)
  • box of staples
  • red mouse pad from OTA systems where I hought my 486 in '91 or so
  • Cool wireless mouse from LogiTech
  • Radio Shack calculator
  • white drafting eraser

Update: All books are the O'Reilly versions unless otherwise noted. I have another 15 or so O'Reilly's on another bookshelf.

--t. alex

"Nyahhh (munch, munch) What's up, Doc?" --Bugs Bunny