Must be the holiday weekend

My goodness. Grady Harp posted a new review sometime before 12 PM Pacific time, and as of 5 PM no votes (A RECORD!). No comments on the HK reviews in two hours. What gives? I could have soap 0pera withdrawals, how will I entertain myself?

Amazon and Harriet in on it together?

I was looking over the Harriet reviews and the soap opera of comments said today (I must admit has become my daily addiction to read them) and noticed something very interesting. One person popped up and gave a comment which wasn't bad in anyway, the next day she mentioned, (which was today) that all her reviews were given negative votes since she chimed in on the discussion. This was the first time in months she has commented on Harriet. This makes me think that Harriet is the invention of Amazon to get noticed so more people will come to the website and maybe their stock will go up in price because of it?
This whole negative voting thing has to be something Amazon's doing. I can not believe some loser is sitting there all day long looking for the commentors and voting negatively for every review.
Maybe I am looking way too much into this. Maybe aliens from outerspace are in on this by now!

Daily events

W Boudville:
Today W Boudville read three (3) books:

• Advanced Dynamic-system Simulation: Model-replication Techniques and Monte Carlo Simulation [221 pages]
  
• AZARIA [no page count given]
  
• Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications [704 pages]

Total: 925 known + whatever Azaria's page count is; gotta be over 1000.
Rated: two four stars, one five stars.

---

John Matlock "Gunny" (who is definitely back at it):
Today JMG read five (5) books (as of right now; the day's not over)

• From the Heart: A Woman's Guide to Living Well [263 pages]
  
• With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change [278 pages]
  
• CF-104 Starfighter in Canadian Service [112 pages]
  
• Imperial German Army 1914-18 [416 pages]
  
• Advantage Database Server: A Developer's Guide [616 pages]

Total: 1685 pages.
All rated five stars (no surprises here).

---

Robert Morris:
Today Robert Morris read (and highlighted) one (1) book today: Strategy Express [130 pages]; rated five stars (no surprises as well).

"Deleted by Amazon 1 hour ago"

In a few of the Grady Harp comments sections my posts were "Deleted by Amazon 1 hour ago" (for example here). Anyone remember what was there? I think they contained tables of timestamps -- but first, they (Amz) didn't seem to remove this kind before, and second, there are other GH reviews where my timestamp-tables remain untouched. ???

Amazon Review Blotter, May 23 2007

W.Boudville update:
On May 23 WB reviewed two (2) three (3) books:

• CMMI(R) for Outsourcing: Guidelines for Software, Systems, and IT Acquisition (464 pages)
  
• Space Vehicle Design (660 pages)
  
• Multimedia over IP and Wireless Networks (712 pages)
  

[1372 1836 pages altogether]

On May 22 WB reviewed two (2) books:

• Heavy-Tail Phenomena: Probabilistic and Statistical Modeling (406 pages)
• JBoss(R) Seam: Simplicity and Power Beyond Java(TM) EE (432 pages)

[838 pages altogether]

On May 20 and 21 W.Boudville rested.

On May 19 WB reviewed a 384-page book.
On May 17 WB reviewed a 351-page book.

---

Robert Morris update:
On May 23 Robert Morris reviewed four (4) books:

• The Ultimate Business Library: The Greatest Books That Made Management (346 pages)
  
• Whoever Tells the Best Story Wins: How to Use Your Own Stories to Communicate With Power and ImpactMultimedia over IP and Wireless Networks (226 pages)
  
• Hidden in Plain Sight: How to Find and Execute Your Company's Next Big Growth Strategy ( 272 pages)
  
• The Pyramid Principle ( 177 pages)

------
[1021 pages altogether]

On May 22 Robert Morris reviewed three (3) books:

• A New Strategy for Continuous Improvement: 10 Steps to Lower Costs and Operational Excellence (180 pages)
  
• The Elegant Solution: Toyota's Formula for Mastering Innovation (256 pages)
  
• Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning (240 pages)

------
[676 pages altogether]

On May 21 Robert Morris reviewed two (2) books:

• Harvard Business Review on Becoming a High-Performance Manager (192 pages)
  
• The Giants of Sales: What Dale Carnegie, John Patterson, Elmer Wheeler, And Joe Girard Can Teach You About Real Sales Success ( 228 pages)

------
[420 pages altogether]

All books are five stars, except one four, and one three (!) stars.

---

John Matlock "Gunny" update:
Quiescent since May 16, 2007.
Today, on May 23, 2007, John Matlock "Gunny" reviewed two (2) three (3) books:

• Unlikely Liberators: The Men of the 100th and 442nd.
  
• The de Vaucouleurs Atlas of Galaxies
  
• Advantage Database Server: A Developer's Guide (dated tomorrow, as he does sometimes)

[Situation changes as we watch! Who knows how many books he will have reviewed by the end of today... Stand by.]

Arthur W. Schade reviews his own book

Reviews Written by Arthur W. Schade
GOD Must Be PISSED!: 'Cause I'm Confused as Hell by A. W. Schade.

"[...]an extremely fascinating read... [...]Extremely well written, Schade's prose is priceless ..." etc.

:-)))))

Happy Birthday Harriet !

I was wrong about Harriet Klausner reaching her 14,000 review milestone on this auspicious date. According to the information that she gave to her interviewers HK would be fifty six years old today. My birthday wish for Harriet is that this year she will begin a healthier lifestyle. Perhaps getting out of the house more frequently, taking a walk, planting a garden, doing something more pleasurable than compulsively reviewing books she clearly has not read.