2014 Winter Vacations Playlist Preparation

Before going on a trip, what a joy is it to build your musical playlist! Today, the day before New Year Eve, I am building my playlist for a nice and long Winter holiday South. Here is what it looks like :

• DJ Champion - Chill'em All
• DJ Champion - Resistance
• Nine Inch Nails - Hesitation Marks
• Nine Inch Nails - Things Falling Apart
• Nine Inch Nails - [With_Teeth]
• Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero
• Miles Davis - Ascenceur Pour L'Échafaud
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Ma vie avec Mozart
• Them Crooked Vultures
• Queens of the Stone Age - Era Vulgaris
• Queens of the Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork
• Queens of the Stone Age - Lullabies To Paralyze
• Queens of the Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf
• The Offspring - Splinter
• Muse - Absolution
• Muse - Hullabaloo
• Moby - Destroyed
• Martin Léon - Les Atomes
• Louise Attaque - À Plus Tard Crocodile
• The Lost Fingers - Lost in the 80's
• Led Zeppelin - Mothership (Remastered)
• La Vie La Vie
• Jonathan Painchaud - Qu'on se lève
• Jean Leloup - Mille excuses milady
• Tool - 10,000 Days
• Rage Against The Machine - Evil Empire
• Radiohead - Best Of
• Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
• The Postal Service - Give Up
• Portishead - Portishead
• Pixies - Wave Of Mutilation: The Best Of Pixies
• Niagara - Best of
• Alice In Videoland - Maiden Voyage Plus
• Audioslave - Audioslave
• Bad Religion - All Ages
• The Beastie Boys - The Sounds Of Science
• Blur - The Best Of

My Holiday Readings

During my winter vacation, I plan on reading a few practical ebooks such as:

The Power of Less: The Fine Art of Limiting Yourself to the Essential by Leo Babauta

From an hyperlink to the other, I found myself discovering this author, Leo Babauta. He is an active blogger on the subject of efficiency and being zen at planning, organizing and especially executing.

Amazon book

Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey

I am reading this ebook on my Kindle for the second time. Context is more or less the same but having done more steps toward what I want to be since my last reading, words of wisdom seem to sound differently in my head now. This book is a must.

Amazon ebook for Kindle

Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams by Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory

I will be reading this book for the third time… or is it the fourth? At every reading I find something I can directly apply with my coworkers. Of course, book advices are often a utopia but the principles are valuable. I feel reassured upon reading almost all development teams hit the same walls. Reading this book is kind of a therapy to not stop trying to improve/change my approach at agile testing.

Amazon ebook for Kindle