December 2004

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• univerCity

  How to Write History

  12.06.04 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Caleb inaugurates the Good Writing Contest to prove that “for every sentence of ‘bad writing’ one can point to in a journal of the humanities, someone else could produce countless counterexamples of ‘good writing.’” As if his blog alone doesn’t prove that thesis, he has more details on the contest.
  Since my masthead holds one [...]

• wizbango! tech

  Black is the New Black

  12.04.04 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  CM is upgraded to MT 3.1.2 [pending WordPress 1.3]. I just was getting overwhelmed by spammers. They are a particularly loathsome lot, aren’t they? MT Blacklist is integrated within MT, so I went with it. The install was easy enough but something is screwy in the extlib. I think I left some MT 2.6 entrails. [...]

• homistan

  Friday Masjids

  12.03.04 | Permalink | Comment?

  Mosques are in the news lately. With a big DENIED sign for women or US ambassadors. The second case happened in Peshawar. The brand-spanking new US Ambassador to Pakistan, Ryan Crooker, thought it would be nice to go see the Mohabat Khan Mosque in Peshawar. But, the imam of the mosque, Maulana Qasim Yousufi, is [...]

• wizbango! tech

  Delete Word

  12.02.04 | Permalink | 11 Comments

  I do not use Microsoft Office for anything more than a work letter or something. But, to keep Murphy’s Law from collapsing, I started my diss. description a few weeks ago on a PC in Word. Snicker. Sunday afternoon, as if on command, the PC’s hard drive died (hi gerry) taking the document with [...]

• optical character recognition, univerCity

  Erotic Vita

  12.01.04 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  Blogs being passé, college kids have turned towards high brow erotica to express themselves in their ivy covered, gothic chapels of knowledge. By Google’s account, Vassar’s Squirm was first out of the gate. Followed by Harvard’s ridiculously titled H Bomb and BU’s even more puerilely titled Boink.
  So this week debuted U of C’s version [...]