A neat hosted wiki
I’ve seen and used pbWiki a number of times but never really liked it. Have also installed and used MediaWiki but that’s best for long-term, long-lived, high-traffic projects. Today I… Read more »
I’ve seen and used pbWiki a number of times but never really liked it. Have also installed and used MediaWiki but that’s best for long-term, long-lived, high-traffic projects. Today I… Read more »
A few snippets to try and get back the blogging mojo… OCR Several eons ago (1988 to be precise) I did quite a bit of work with OCR—using the then… Read more »
I found this tip on the Hawk Wings site (a blog devoted to tips and add-ons for Apple Mail). I tried it out and saw a pretty dramatic speed improvement… Read more »
A new release of Parallels for Mac is out (RC2, Build 3150). It adds USB 2.0 support, a full-featured virtual CD/DVD drive and Coherence (the ability to run a Windows… Read more »
I have a mechanically-inclined friend who doesn’t get too upset when the unexpected car repair hits—he says it’s just an opportunity to buy a new tool. I envy his cheerful… Read more »
Yesterday’s modifications to our campus DNS completed the incremental move of our library’s web site to new servers. Spent several hours “tailing†the log files to see what did and… Read more »
A year or so ago I gave a presentation to our university’s President’s Library Planning Task Force—a group of faculty charged with helping describe where the library needs to be… Read more »
Portico Attended a presentation today by a representative of Portico (a “dark archive” of e-journal content brought to us by the folks who created JSTOR). It’s an interesting project, trying… Read more »
Found one way to get a bit of a speed boost on Firefox–grab one of the Mac CPU optimized compilations from Neil Lee’s BeatnikPad site. Neil offers versions of Firefox… Read more »
My work-related email account sits behind “wall†of spam-catching machines employed by the university–and for traditional SPAM it seems to work well. For whatever reason it seems to have no… Read more »