I wrote this on 13 March 1994: I’ve been working on some hypertext, with HTML, and chatting on the IRC a fair bit. That was on Internex Online, the famous io.org. As K.K. Campbell wrote in “Party’s Over: How Internex Online Fell Afoul of the New Internet” in Eye Weekly on 9 Novem … | Continue reading
Some of the Canadaland podcasts have testimonials from supporters at the start. The host will say Canadaland is supported by So-and-So and Someone Else and list a few names, and end with “and also by Maria,” and then there’s audio from Maria saying why she supports the shows and … | Continue reading
Become a Wikipedian in 30 Minutes, by Molly White, is a really good video: | Continue reading
From Silence in the Age of Noise by Erling Kagge, translated by Becky L. Crook (New York: Pantheon, 2017), pp. 26–27: High-pitched noises can have many modes of expression, but the most powerful scream that I have ever experienced is one that is void of sound: The Scream by Edv … | Continue reading
Thanks to a wonderful list from Zi-Ling Yan (sent in 2022 but I just got to it) I added twenty authors to the Fictional Footnotes and Indexes list. All did footnotes, and all were mystery and pulp writers from the first half of the twentieth century: John Dickson Carr, Kendell Cr … | Continue reading
The Raymond Briggs episode of Desert Island Discs is wonderful. This quote stood out to me, where Sue Lawley and he are talking about the different kinds of work involved in doing graphic novels: It’s like making a film: you write the script and then you become the director and d … | Continue reading
This follows parts 1, 2 and 3 and 4 and brings me to the end of my look at the basic citation processor in Org. Next I’m going to look at the CSL processor, which uses the Citation Style Language. That will take a bit of work, but I’ll be back. Beyond that I can see some of the p … | Continue reading
In parts 1, 2 and 3 we took a single citation in an Org document, applied citation and bibliography styles to it, and used the basic processor to export it. In this post I’ll look at the four capabilities that the basic processor has. They are described in the manual and also in … | Continue reading
My look at citations in Org continues on from Part 1 and Part 2, and here I finish going through the document-level settings. Keywords and options We can make document-level settings with three keywords: bibliography, to specify where to look for bibliographic metadata (this has … | Continue reading
Nice-Looking Printed LibraryThing Catalogue (on GitHub at nlpltc) has had a bit of work and now the README is up to date and make test will do something. You can use nlpltc to take an export of your LibraryThing catalogue and make a nice-looking PDF, possibly like this: Sample of … | Continue reading
Numeric style in citation but not bibliography In Part 1 we took a citation in its simplest form, using the default basic citation processor, then ran through all its possible styles and variants, and made a bibliography to go with it. It all worked—the in-text citation or footno … | Continue reading
Managing times across time zones is difficult. The Software Freedom Conservancy recently ran four events that were scheduled to accommodate people all around world, and they announced them in an ingenious way I’d never seen before: Please, join us on our BigBlueButton instance at … | Continue reading
I did some sessions at work showing what Zotero can do, and my preparations got me caught up on the improvements in version 6 almost two years ago, which I’d read about but not tried. It’s fantastic. A group at Rice University did a great twenty-minute video that covers it all: R … | Continue reading
Cover of Billy and Rose: Just the Way They Are Late in 2023 a new book came out that was illustrated by Kady MacDonald Denton (my mother) and written by Amy Hest: Billy and Rose: Just the Way They Are (published by Candlewick). It goes with Billy and Rose: Forever Friends from 20 … | Continue reading
I like this quote from Brian Thompson’s Imperial Vanities (Harper Collins, 2002, p. 196): Granville’s political nickname was Puss and there is a story of how the Liberal Lord Goschen once wrote him an infuriated letter, detailing all his complaints and threatening that if he did … | Continue reading
After over two-and-a-half days, the Cirrus Hosting outage is over. It began around 2000 on Tuesday 19 December 2023. In the afternoon of Thursday 21 December this was posted, which raised my hopes … but seven hours later when I took the screenshot, they had sunk. At 1030 this mor … | Continue reading
I have a virtual server with Cirrus Hosting. Well, I’m supposed to. It’s been down for over twenty-four hours. I’ve started to move away. I hope the server comes back, but if it does it’ll just make the move easier. Screenshot of infrequent updates I lost access at 2000 on Tuesda … | Continue reading
A quote from Juggling by Stewart Lawrence Sinclair, where Jay Gilligan is talking about Michael Moschen: A juggler in the 1980s by the name of Michael Moschen would shift the paradigm again by crafting shows that were as much about creating compelling visuals and spectacles as th … | Continue reading
Marina Abramović was recently a guest on Desert Island Discs. When she was fourteen her mother took her to Venice; this made her decide she wanted to be an artist, and she asked for oil paints. Her father arranged a lesson with a former Partisan friend who had become a painter. I … | Continue reading
Last year I said, regarding the Retraction Watch Database, “I wish the data was available under an open license.” Today I discovered that since September it has been openly available, thanks to Crossref acquiring it, though I’m not sure what the license is. The availability is gr … | Continue reading
Librarians and archivists at York University Libraries are members of the York University Faculty Association, the union for full-time academic employees. Last year YUFA agreed to a new collective agreement. (The old agreement expired on 30 April 2021, and bargaining went very sl … | Continue reading