Archive for October, 2008
Friday, October 31st, 2008
Economic downturn hitting public libraries. Also, library fines.
Another popularly focused article on the digital dark age; it proposes using open-source rather than proprietary file formats.
The best suit for your body type.
Proto-scholar learns the hard way to ask the right people for process advice. No one would blame her for feeling ...
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Sunday, October 26th, 2008
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Anthonio. In sooth I know not why I am so sad,
It wearies me: you say it wearies you;
But how I caught it, found it, or came by it,
What stuffe 'tis made of, whereof it is borne,
I am to learne: and such a Want-wit sadnesse ...
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Friday, October 24th, 2008
I meant to add this time management rule to my previous Fall Review post. I can't remember whether it originated with Mark Forster or David Allen, but it goes something like this: At all costs, avoid heroic efforts to get things done.
Examples of an heroic effort would be pulling an ...
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Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
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During 2007's fall break, I took a breather and penned (odd word for a blog post, but I'll use it) an update on how the semester was going and the changes I was going through at that time.
A question from Brother Thomas and my friend Rani's firing up ...
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Saturday, October 11th, 2008
First in a (no doubt about it) ongoing series.
When I had to do my first literature review, and my first big grad school paper, last fall, I asked my mentor, The Indomitable Cassidy, for her advice. Here's what she said:
I actually like starting with a "haphazard search," but I prefer ...
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