Caleb announced that Google Print has 19th c. texts up. Oh, good geek! The texts all seem to be from Harvard College library. Immediately a search was made and here are some eye-catching entries: – Captain W. H. Sleeman’s The Thugs Or Phansigars of India: Comprising a History of the Rise and Progress of that [...]
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I am tired of Movable Type 3.2 already. “Out of memory during large requests” errors galore [I want to choke the sbrk() out of sixapart]. Insane “context missing” messages from various Spamlookup rebuilds. What is up with this piece of software? The only reason I didn’t ditch MT way back at 2.x was WP’s insane [...]
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Just upgraded to MT 3.2 and took out MTBlacklist. Not sure if either are wise decisions in this day and age. You may have to re-authenticate to comment.
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Have you heard of the Apple’s announcement that it will switch over to Intel processors? You must have. I have had many, many emails from readers asking what is my take on this amazing development. Ok, by “many, many” I mean “one”. And by “one”, I mean, “myself”. Seems like CM is not the go-to [...]
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I have finally upgraded all my machines to Tiger. As usual, this was a smooth upgrade. Apache & PHP needed some tweaking afterwards. Mail re-imported everything [and seems like it has changed it's mailbox format]. Safari’s RSS capabilities should be useful for some [am I the only one who hasn't climbed the RSS bandwagon?]. Dashboard [...]
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Meanwhile, how do these DVDs get to The Shop in the first place? This is a long and complicated story. And my telling of it starts in another shop. G. Electronics, in a market in Lodi Colony. S. G., the owner of G. Elec, is a movie fanatic with an encyclopaedic knowledge of Hollywood films. [...]
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[Names have been changed for obvious reasons.] January in Palika Bazaar. A day before the beginning of a major conference on Inequalities, Conflicts and Intellectual Property. I am with Brian Larkin, who is here for the conference, and we are looking for DVDs. Palika Bazaar, an ëundergroundí market in more senses than one, is of [...]
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A bit of spring cleaning, remodelling, tearing down and building up is in progress. announcements tomorrow.any problems with IE may be addressed but please just use firefox. comments are welcome. Drop me a line.
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I have been reading kottke for a long time and always liked him esp. the tone and cadence of his writing. Today, he declared that he is going pro: “blogging for blogging’s sake”. He has quit his job and will attempt to write the blog only for a year. I, for one, am psyched for [...]
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The best, ok only but the adjective will stand, panel I attended was Trends in Computing for Human Development. The panel primarily consisted of Berkeley CS grad students who were working on, and had been involved with, developing sustainable techonolgies for India and Brazil. First of all, the fact that they were CS made them [...]
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I was on IM with nathaniel and we started trading weird searches that led people to our sites. He insisted that I share it with all of you. Immortalize them, he said. Since Early Modern Notes had some fun with spam yesterday, I figured I would put some fun searches up as well. I had [...]
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Kottke had a link up this morning about amazon’s new addition to their a9 engine – Yellow Pages. Intrigued, I clicked over. They display little pictures of the businesses in the search results. Massively cool. Their how-we-did-it video [qt] tells us that they mounted cameras on lots of SUVs and then drove around the major [...]
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Via Cliopatria I learned of Google’s partnership with libraries at Stanford, Harvard & c. to digitize their entire holdings. Copyrighted materials will only be available in selections and out-of-copyright texts (manuscripts!?) in their entirety. Here is the NYT piece and here is more information about Google Print (beta). Rob has a good post on similair [...]
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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. [...]
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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 it. [...]
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In NYT today is an article on digital archiving. Let me admit that I have long made fun of the Grey Lady’s forays into technical writing (if their damn archives weren’t off-google, I would link here to their articles on the “information superhighway”, “email” and, more recently, “web logs”). That said, this is not a [...]
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This is the most pathetic question plus price. And this. And this pissed me off (do read the NB at the end – god, I will have to teach such cretins for the rest of my life!). Google Answers is the new google. Thank you Mark for providing a new source of entertainment!
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Haven’t had a nice spam in awhile…besides the one promising breast implants in under 2 days but this just came in…from shadowcrew – the victims of an odious spammer/hoaxer. Welcome to our web site!! You’re invited to shop for large selection of bombs and different kinds of rockets such as surface-to-air, surface-to-surface and weaponry available [...]
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I admit that I am a techno-geek. I also spend approx. 4 hours a day in the stacks here at Regenstein. And some readers of CM have complained that there is not enough “tech” and lots of “history”. The actual word of complaint was “shibrum-shibrum”. To placate that reader I offer this news about robotic [...]
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Every Pakistani’s heart swells with pride when we learn that Pakistan is #1 in anything. Imagine my elation when I learned that Pakistan now claims tops in the world in piracy. The International Intellectual Property Alliance released a report a few days ago which argues that Pakistan’s status as preferred trading partner of US be [...]
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