In an effort to beef up the rather empty-looking sidebar on the left-hand side of this page, I’ve added a few sidebar sections: “Books I’m Reading”, “Music I’m Listening To”, “TV I’m Watching”, “Movies I’ve Seen”, “Games I’m Playing”. These represent a sampling of some of my current activities and interests. I’m also thinking about adding a section entitled “Latest-Greatest Gadget” to showcase my latest tech-toy…

The links for books and music are to product pages at Amazon.com, mainly because I find they have generally well-rounded information on books and music albums. Yes, these are “associate” links (i.e. if you buy stuff through these links I get some trivial amount of compensation) but my only true motivation for using Amazon.com’s Associate feature is that it allows me to generate a product link URL that I know will work.

The links for TV shows and video games are to the main websites of those shows and games; I may change the game links to point to a third-party site like GameSpot.

The movie links are to the movies’ entries in the Internet Movie Database (IMDB), the best all-around reference for movie information.