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Tagged by fireyfox

1. Total number of books I've owned:
   1. Take the sum of all the money I've ever had
   2. Divide by four
   3. Divide by the average price of a book
   4. Add about 20 (books I've accidentally nicked from libraries)
   5. Add about 40 (books people have given to me)
   6. Round up to nearest integer


2. Last book I bought:
   Storm Front by jimbutcher


3. Last book I read:
   Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide by Eric Meyer


4. (The first) Five books (that I can think of) that mean a lot to me:
   1. The Hobbit by professor John Ronald Reuel Tolkien*
   2. The Old Kingdom Trilogy by Garth Nix†
   3. Neuromancer by William Gibson
   4. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
   5. The Pragmatic Programmer by Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt


5. Tag 5 people to do this in their journals:
   1. ryttu3k
   2. uluru_desta (and/or salith)
   3. theshadowlurker‡
   4. aurora_z
   5. jmspencer

*A devout, conservative Roman Catholic who would've just hated me.
†An author who has been quoted as saying "the world needs more fangirls".
‡Even though memes are a myth.

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Today we have:

Hayden x2
( His matrix is pastede on yey )

Firefox/Serenity x4
( You can't take the web from me )

And, since it only involved one more letter
( fireyfox x2 )

Icons subject to usual stealability, but it'd be rather silly for most of you to take the last two.

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