Robert Laird

This book was 25 years in the making. It's R. F. Laird's attempt to get banned from book publishing in two consecutive centuries. The timing is perfect. Now we have Third Wave Feminism And Laird is sticking with his brilliant paradigm of the Insect Brain as an explanation of female (un)consciousness. Guys, you gotta buy this. Yeah, it's pricey but that's because you get breasts in color, in the Renaissance. So buy it. It'd be cheap at twice the price.Also. Hellaciously funny.

The Definitive Guide to Governing Shared Services and SOA Projects SOA Governance: Governing Shared Services On-Premise and in the Cloud is the result of a multi-year project to collect proven industry practices for establishing IT governance controls specific to the adoption of SOA and service-orientation. Authored by world-renowned experts in the fields of SOA, IT governance, and cloud computing, this comprehensive book provides clear direction as to what does and does not constitute SOA governance and then steps the reader through the most important industry governance practices, as they pertain to individual SOA project lifecycle stages. With a consistent, vendor-neutral focus, and with the help of case study examples, the authors demonstrate how to define and position precepts, organizational roles, processes, standards, and metrics. Readers benefit from thorough and visually depicted cross-references and mapping between roles, processes, precepts, and project stages, enabling them to fully explore dynamics and dependencies and thereby learn how to use these governance controls to create their own custom SOA governance systems. This important title will be valuable to every practitioner concerned with making SOA work, including senior IT managers, project managers, architects, analysts, developers, administrators, QA professionals, security specialists, and cloud computing professionals. Topic Areas Defining SOA governance Establishing an SOA governance office and program Working with proven SOA governance precepts and processes Identifying organizational roles and relating them to SOA governance Associating design-time and runtime SOA project stages with SOA governance controls Governance considerations specific to shared services Roles, precepts, and factors specific to cloud-based services Understanding and categorizing SOA governance products and technologies Applying governance controls as early as the planning stages and measuring their success in subsequent stages Using vitality triggers to govern shared services on an on-going basis SOA governance controls that pertain to business information documents and policies

Sonnets. Haiku, Verses, and a Prose Poem.

There was The Boomer Bible, 800 pages of trashing my own generation. Then I did a graphic work called Shuteye Town 1999, which used an 11,000 word work called the Zeezer Bible to be the Intercolumn reference of a 3500 file graphic journey. The Zeezer Bible is about the X-Gen kids. It is nasty. But when Pat told me she had this file, I decided it was time for the Snowflake Bible. So here they are. Two of the most casually written works of scripture ever written.

The Tunnel is an unusual adventure involving two intrepid cave divers in the underwater caves of Central Florida. Carth and Louis are on a run-of-the-mill cave dive when something goes horribly wrong. A mysterious solo diver appears and saves Louis' life. The rescuer, Jim, and Carth become fast friends, but soon find themselves in an astonishing predicament, when they discover a new tunnel. With great effort they dig their way into the tunnel and into the unknown. Almost at the point where they should turn back, they see light from a sinkhole above, one that doesn't exist on any map. Do they stop and head back or do they risk their lives and ascend into the adventure of a lifetime?