Life
Master's paper update
I'm chugging along on my master's paper, which is due three weeks from today. I am finishing up the data collection as we speak, and I want to have a draft finished by next Monday. What I've found so far is that there is
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Archives vendor spreads fear, uncertainty, and doubt about free software
For those of you who don't know, I am a member of the free/open source software community. I have used versions of Linux on my personal computer for four years now. I run this server and this installation of Wordpress on a Debian GNU/Linux installation on
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David Price responds about PAHR
I emailed my representative, David Price, about the PAHR bill before the House a couple of months ago, and he finally responded to me today. He basically says that the much of the records are held on the state level, the NHPRC gives out grants to states, he likes the
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Appropriating the word "archive"
Gmail uses the word "archive" to describe the action of moving mail out of your inbox and into the "All Mail" folder. Barnes and Noble, on their new nook ebook reader, uses the word "archive" to actually mean delete! When you click on the
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The word "archive"
Archival as an Approach | Morgan E. Jones - Apr 6, 2013 [...] [1] Bromley, Benjamin. "The Word 'Archive.'" Among Other Items (Blog). 20 January 2010. http://amongotheritems.org/2010/01/the-word-archive/ [...] Round up: vocabulary of the archives | mademoiselle archivist - Jan 4, 2014 […] Bromley was thinking and
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Sorry if I spammed your RSS feed
Hey everybody who's on my RSS feed (all 4 of you), I'm sorry If I spammed your feed with all of my posts being reposted. I just moved my Wordpress to a new server, which should be faster and better. This will also let me get
essencha
Teas I've been drinking recently
I've been drinking two teas recently, both from Essencha back in Cincinnati. The first is White Peony, also known as Pai Mu Tan or Bai Mu Dan. Its a classic Chinese white tea, and its one I've had many times before. The White Peony from Essencha
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Master's paper 2.0
So, for a variety of reasons, I've decided to go in a new direction with my master's paper. The reasons include the fact that my IRB application was pretty terrible and the second version of it wouldn't be done until too late; the class
browser
Browser ennui, part 2
So, in my followup to my first Browser ennui post, I have decided to stay with Firefox, albeit upgrading to 3.6 beta 5, and keeping 3.5.6 on my computer as well. 3.6b5 is faster than Firefox 3.5.6, and only occasionally crashes (usually on sites
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Nook, Project Gutenberg, and Distributed Proofreading
I got a Barnes and Noble nook, which is an ebook reader, for Christmas. So far, I've only loaded it up with free ebooks from Project Gutenberg. Project Gutenberg is a project whose goal is to digitize out of copyright books and make them freely available online. So
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Browser ennui
Browser ennui, part 2 at Among Other Items - Dec 3, 2009 [...] in my followup to my first Browser ennui post, I have decided to stay with Firefox, albeit upgrading to 3.6 beta 5, and keeping 3.5.6 on my [...]
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My Own Personal LOCKSS
TomG - Nov 5, 2009 I had a 1 yr subscription to MobileMe (mac) for my version of LOCKSS and it never worked as well or fast as the free service from Dropbox. I use Dropbox to LOCKSS all our family computers now and it works great. If anyone is