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I was recently sent a review copy of "Drupal 6 JavaScript and jQuery" by Matt Butcher. Having recently started to use JQuery with Drupal it was a shame I had not discovered it earlier.

Anyone who knows me knows I love to use the Drupal Content Management System (CMS). In my opinion Drupal is relatively easy to use, although it can be daunting knowing how to configure the system to accomplish the desired working website. For example, setting up a blog with Drupal is easy, but how do you add a gallery? What if you would like to pull RSS feeds from another source or even run an e-commerce website?

Okay so you have probably seen "Long Way Down" on TV and could buy the DVD, but the book is fantastic.

Too many website developers still code their websites for older browsers. For example some still build their websites aiming them at Internet Explorer 5 or even earlier and then add additional functionality for newer browsers. This is known as progressive coding.

The Commodore Story: A Company on the Edge by Brian Bagnall is, as the name suggests, all about the history of Commodore. Commodore was seen by many in the 70’s and 80’s as a pioneering computer company with cutting edge machines that were on a par with the likes of the Apple Mac and Lisa.

There are few people around today that will o of heard of "The Hobbit", first published in 1937, or of its author, J.R.R.Tolkien. The story is set in a fantasy world known as "Middle Earth", a place inhabited by Dwarfs, Elves, Orcs, Goblins and Dragons.

"iCon: The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business" is the biography of Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple. The book is written by Jeffrey Young and William Simon. They closely follow Jobs from childhood to the present, or rather 2005.

iWoz is the autobiography of Steve Wozniak, the creator of the Apple and Apple II computers, not to mention one of the co-founders of

I wrote in an early post, see Turnpike Secondary School, about my intention to gather information including the history, photographs and stories of the school.  Since then I have received a few offers of support.  I have not had the time to push this, however, I am going to be pushing it more in the coming months.

It is no secret, I went to Turnpike Secondary School, and am proud of it.  The staff were fantastic, my class mates were cool and I loved it.  In addition, those who know me will know that I love my history and like to preserve as much about the history of a place as possible.  I have decided one of my goals this coming year, 2008, is to gather as much information of the Turnpike Secondary School as possible.  This includes it's history, staff, students, photographs, etc., essentially anything I can lay my hands on.  What I would like to do is to produce a book, or at least an article for a history journal, on the history of the school and memories of those who went their.