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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

In reply to Re: Contents of my Office by talexb
in thread (OT) Contents of my Office by JSchmitz

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