Archive for September, 2006
So the buzz is starting to build about George Mason’s citation tool Zotero. It is an extension for Firefox that is meant to replace desktop programs like RefWorks and Endnotes. And its free. And its open source. For those who read a lot of journals this will be fantastic thing.
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Well, so much for getting any work done tonight. Or reading that report. The first disc of season 2.5 of Battlestar Galactica arrived in the mail from Netflix today… must… resist… urge to watch entire disc…
Pew Internet Research has released their report “The Future of the Internet II“. I haven’t had a chance to look at it yet, but from the short description it certainly looks interesting.
While its probably not a major point, I think we are already seeing signs that:
by 2020…
Tech “refuseniks” will emerge as a cultural group [...]
Daniel at OneBigLibrary.net provides us with some amusing metaphors comparing metadata types to music. Hilarious. MARC == western tonal ? RDF == twelve tone ?
Read it for yourself: Troll baiting with poorly thought out metadata metaphors
I’m wondering where Frank Zappa would fit into this.
Argh! I was ready to pull out all of my hair after the frustrating experience that was installing Apache, MySQL and PHP this past week. What an incredible pain! I first tried to get it all running on Ubuntu-Linux, but after several hours of trying to get MySQL server to start I [...]
I discovered this fabulous site: UNIX Tutorial for Beginners which is exactly that. It starts at the beginning and is precisely what I needed.
AND the author makes the tutorial available to be copied, modified and presented as described in the Creative Commons Deed. Yay for sharing!
Technorati tags: unix
Warning: Unix humor ahead.
A number of years after failing miserably at being a Computer Science major, I am giving programming another go. I’ve been writing HTML/CSS for a few years now so I’m going to take the next step and learn PHP. Okay, so it’s basically a scripting language and not a big time, all-around language [...]
