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The Icarus Agenda by Robert Ludlum

In Robert Ludlum’s The Icarus Agenda, a heart-pounding political thriller, Colorado congressman Evan Kendrick goes undercover in Oman to infiltrate a terrorist hideout and rescue American hostages during a chaotic 1980s Middle East crisis.

Books

Monthly update #0216 • April 2008

Monthly update 216 • April 2008 • 2008-04-01 - 2008-04-30

Monthly Updates

The Aquitaine Progression by Robert Ludlum

In Robert Ludlum’s The Aquitaine Progression, a massive Cold War thriller, international lawyer Joel Converse gets entangled in a deadly conspiracy when a mysterious figure in Geneva drops a bombshell: a secret military cabal called the Aquitaine is plotting to take over the world.

Books

Monthly update #0215 • March 2008

Monthly update 215 • March 2008 • 2008-03-01 - 2008-03-31

Monthly Updates

The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth

In Frederick Forsyth’s epic thriller, The Day of the Jackal, a mysterious assassin known only as “The Jackal” is hired by the OAS, a French terrorist group, to assassinate President Charles de Gaulle in 1963.

Books

The Parsifal Mosaic by Robert Ludlum

In Robert Ludlum’s The Parsifal Mosaic, a heart-pounding Cold War thriller, intelligence officer Michael Havelock’s world crumbles on a moonlit Costa Brava beach.

Books

Monthly update #0214 • February 2008

Monthly update 214 • February 2008 • 2008-02-01 - 2008-02-29

Monthly Updates

The Bourne Ultimatum by Robert Ludlum

In Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Ultimatum, the epic conclusion to the original Bourne trilogy, Jason Bourne faces his toughest challenge yet.

Books

Monthly update #0213 • January 2008

Monthly update 213 • January 2008 • 2008-01-01 - 2008-01-31

Monthly Updates

The Bourne Supremacy by Robert Ludlum

In Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Supremacy, the thrilling sequel to The Bourne Identity, Jason Bourne, now living peacefully with Marie St. Jacques in Maine, is dragged back into a dangerous game when a mysterious impostor using his name causes chaos in Asia.

Books

Monthly update #0212 • December 2007

Monthly update 212 • December 2007 • 2007-12-01 - 2007-12-31

Monthly Updates

Reflecting on the year 2007

Reflection on the year 2007, checking progress of the goals, and some numbers.

Journal

The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum

In Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Identity, a heart-pounding spy thriller, a man is pulled from the Mediterranean Sea with no memory, bullet wounds, and a microfilm in his hip pointing to a Swiss bank account.

Books

Monthly update #0211 • November 2007

Monthly update 211 • November 2007 • 2007-11-01 - 2007-11-30

Monthly Updates

Bad Luck and Trouble by Lee Child

In Bad Luck and Trouble, Reacher reunites his old Army MP unit after a member’s murder, uncovering a plot targeting them over a past case.

Books

A Story of Surveillance

He said the NSA built a special room to receive data streamed through an AT&T Internet room containing “peering links,” or major connections to other telecom providers.

Gems

The Matarese Circle by Robert Ludlum

In Robert Ludlum’s The Matarese Circle, a thrilling Cold War mystery, two top-secret spies, American Brandon Scofield and Soviet Vasili Taleniekov, bitter rivals with a shared past, must team up to stop a mysterious global plot.

Books

Monthly update #0210 • October 2007

Monthly update 210 • October 2007 • 2007-10-01 - 2007-10-31

Monthly Updates

The Hard Way by Lee Child

The Hard Way begins with Reacher witnessing a ransom drop in New York, hired to recover a kidnapped wife from a mercenary crew.

Books

The Holcroft Covenant by Robert Ludlum

In Robert Ludlum’s thrilling novel, The Holcroft Covenant, set in the late 1970s, a New York architect named Noel Holcroft stumbles upon a shocking secret. He’s the heir to a massive fortune linked to a clandestine agreement made by his Nazi officer father and two others during World War II.

Books

Monthly update #0209 • September 2007

Monthly update 209 • September 2007 • 2007-09-01 - 2007-09-30

Monthly Updates

One Shot by Lee Child

In One Shot, a sniper kills five in an Indiana city, but Reacher doubts the accused's guilt and investigates a frame job tied to local corruption.

Books

Ratatouille

Ratatouille (2007), directed by Brad Bird, follows Remy, a rat who dreams of cooking. Patton Oswalt voices Remy with keen nose and big heart. He lives in Paris. Lou Romano acts as Linguini, the clumsy kitchen boy who teams with Remy.

Movies

iPhone orientation detection

Here is the most basic JavaScript to get the iPhone orientation detection going...

Development

The Chancellor Manuscript by Robert Ludlum

In Robert Ludlum’s The Chancellor Manuscript, a heart-pounding conspiracy thriller, novelist Peter Chancellor, mourning the loss of his family, uncovers a terrifying rumor: FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover’s death was no accident...

Books