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Multiblog Bug Fix Redux
In my haste, I failed to see the error in my logic. I also was led astray by poor white space formatting. Basically, I turned this into this when what I wanted was this (</mt:Else>s omitted) Here’s everything together....
Multiblog Bug Fix
What follows is incorrect and remains for archival reasons only. There is a corrected version. A few days or weeks or hours after restructuring the main page for this blog, I noticed that the layout for blog entries that...
I’m From the Future and I’m Here to Help.
Image source Happy New Year! It’s the first day of 2010 and I’m looking forward to starting the year off right, which is that this year is “Twenty Ten” not “Two Thousand Ten.” On our way home from our...
Some Thoughts Regarding the Creation of Text-to-Speech Audiobooks Using Consumer-Grade Software, or One Possible Outcome for Academic Professionalism as a Result of Fully Digitzed Text
Codex Books, Audiobooks, and Assistive Devices: A Tale of Near Misses The last book I checked out of Alden Library while still a faculty at Ohio University was Clay Shirky’s 2008 Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing without...
Reorganizing This Movable Type Blog: Mistersquid Refreshed
Before returning to California after a 17-year adventure in the world of higher education (one that may not quite be done done), I restructured the way I was developing material for this blog. That restructuring was born of a...
Taking It Lying Down: A Short Addendum to The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception written for the Age of Ubiquitous Television
On Friday, 10 July, Pam and I were in Manhattan, KS, which with bathroom breaks and fuelings is about ninety minutes outside Topeka. Two largish little league baseball teams were also staying where we were lodging, and the breakfast...
Robot Vernacular
(source) Clicking downloads a 2.5 MB file. Please be patient while the file loads Ctrl/Right-click here to “Save File As . . .” I'm interested in the kinaesthetics of such dances, the way in which mechanism and organism are...
Drugged Up Zombie Laborers
A video essay about the drug Burundanga reminds me of the (much more authoritative) work Wade Davis did regarding "Ethonobiology of the Haitian Zombie" (subtitle) in Passage of Darkness.1 Zombification in Haiti involves the use of a powerful neurotoxin that...
Skim This
The users who have been complaining about iMovie '08 and the pundits who have nothing more to say except "It should have been called something else" have failed to see that the skim feature present in iMovie '08 (and in...
Notes toward an interruption
My lawn needs mowing. I have this notion that after the next heavy rain, water will pool in the middle of my lawn and a family of beavers will make a dam in the middle. They will gather sticks from...
Ecto 2 is Dangerously Buggy
I have been a licensed user of Ecto weblogging software since 31 March 2006.1I’m posting this entry because the developer of Ecto, Adriaan Tijsseling, has chosen to censor me on his developer’s blog.2If after posting a blog entry (with or...
Data Dada
Great boobies, honey bun! My lower intestine is full of spam eggs spam bacon spam . . . spam spam spam . . . —”Spam” Monty Python The Brothers McLeod Spamland #1iPod-compatibleCtrl/Right-click on the link above to “Save File...
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