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Building bigger roads to solve traffic congestion is like buying larger trousers to cure obesity.
Bob Passey (letter to SMH 23 April 2004)

Pearson and O'Reilly Do e-Textbook Deal
BooksSource: e-consultancyPearson launches web-textbooks programme"Publishing giant Pearson is launching a project in the US to offer students digital textbooks at half the price of the printed versions...The group's education division is to launch the project, SafariX Textbooks Online, as a joint venture with another US publisher O'Reilly Media, which offers textbooks on technology, and already uses the Safari system. Rather than offering textbooks for digital download, Safari hosts books online with the ability to annotate and navigate through a web browser.
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