Although UNC requires incoming freshmen to buy a laptop computer, and although some SILS classes require a laptop (I’m thinking here of the database or programming courses), by and large, I’ve found that I haven’t really needed a laptop on campus. I prefer taking notes by hand on paper, and the campus is lousy with [...]
Tagged macbookI’m starting my third official semester as a graduate student but there are still a few nuts I haven’t cracked yet. I’m starting to wonder if they’re worth cracking or if I’m just worrying too much.
What I’ve been doing
Note-taking strategy. For both reading and classroom lectures, I still have (I think) a shockingly [...]
Mary Ellen Bates raves about Carrot2 in her latest InfoTip newsletter. Carrot2 clusters search results, much as Clusty.com does. Carrot2 differs in that it’s using a Swiss meta search engine, etools.ch, as the basis for its initial group of search results, while Clusty uses US-based meta search engines.
Both the Carrot2 and Clusty home [...]
infosthetics shopping guide for the data-addicted (via xblog) - I like the Rabbit best, but only because it’s so faux and useless. Does it respond to “SHUT UP?!?”
“Libraries Make Me Have To Poop” (sold out!)
My new favorite Firefox extension: Read it Later (via Web Worker Daily). Update: Replaced by Readeroo. I prefer the latter’s use [...]