Jeffrey S. Bennion

A warm and fascinating book for anyone interested in stories, Jun 2 2001

For those who love the written word (and that would be anyone browsing here, I suspect), we all have the desire to infect others with our same literary enthusiasm. And study after study has shown that reading to children is best way to ensure children's success in school. So the question is not DO we read to children, but HOW and WHAT do we read to children.

The answer provided in this book is, I feel, the best. As parents and caretakers we have a natural and healthy instinct to protect children from harm. But if we think back to our own childhoods, we will find them inhabited by all sorts of irrational fears. And if we are realistic, we will admit that these cannot be entirely… Read more

UFO Conspiracy Theories are a Conspiracy Theory!, May 2 2000

SURGEON GENERAL'S WARNING: Fluids ingested while reading this book could forcefully exit the mouth and nostrils, causing embarassement and high dry cleaning bills. The incontinent should take care to carefully fasten their Depends before opening this book!

OK, so I thought I was the only one who thought that UFO Conspiracy theories were a conspiracy concocted by the military-industrial complex to divert attention from our military unreadiness (far better to believe that UFO's were invading our airspace than the Russians) and also to prop up support for funding for space and defense. But then I read the same thing in Sagan's _Demon Haunted World_ and then saw it on the X-Files… Read more

An inadequate and confusing book., Mar 22 2000

Aside from poor writing (including some stilted humor) and apparently non-existent editing, this book suffers from some other flaws. Structurally, these include:

-Incorrectly and confusingly illustrated figures

-Broken link to the web site which supposedly contains errata and corrections, but does not apparently exist

-Incorrect page numbers in the index.

In addition, the book would have benefitted from a discussion of these items:

-A discussion of the notion of "publishing" in the active directory

-More information on the trade-offs between native and mixed mode

-I would have appreciated references to the Microsoft documentation and white papers that… Read more