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- For owners of older Mac products
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- Review: “The Writer’s Tale: The Final Chapter”
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- Having fun with Wikipedia
- Software: MacBreakz and Joe Ergo
- A shortcut for Googling the current web site
- Assorted links
- If you were born on this day…
- Pay the writer
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- Progress Report: But is it fun?
- 52 Killer Tricks for Your Kindle
- Temptatious articles to read
- Sad necessities and the comfort zone
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- Drought on the Mississippi
- The Old Adventures of Superman
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- Robert Hughes (1938-2012)
- Bradbury was right: “We are the Martians.”
- My event planning template
- On being an information packrat — Part IV
- Robertson Davies on Useful Knowledge
- On being an information packrat – Part III
- An improv principle and event planning
- National Night Out
- On being an information packrat – Part II
- On being an information packrat
- Gore Vidal (1925-2012)
- On starting before you’re ready
- On using timers and timeboxing
- Reboot at the OK Plateau
- Christine Kane, Upleveling, and a free telecall
- Using Keyboard Maestro to fix Safari 5.1 keyboard dumbnesses
- Vivian Maier
- A Flapper’s Dictionary
- Fibonacci sonnets
- A student or a scholar
- The end is nigh…
- Don’t overthink it (Installment #247)
- Writing in the library
- Little steps
- 2010 leaving, 2011 rushing forward
- Two views of boredom
- Writing lessons learned (yet again)
- Examining the unlived life
- Safety paranoia
- Career Fare
- More on panic and discomfort
- Atheists Don’t Have No Songs
- Toecovers
- Kindle for Mac
- Be warned
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- The Suck Fairy
- My nephew’s philosophy
- If you were born on this day…
- Stevereads
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- David Markson
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- From dr to mr
- Science is boring!
- Fall 2009 chicken
- Today in History
- The bones beneath the skin
- Downstream, Upstream
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- Roald Dahl’s “Boy”
- “Dreams with Sharp Teeth”
- Link harvest
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- Old-world skillz
- Momentum, Inertia
- My future is assured
- Great words
- On acting and life
- Assorted links
- Writing the Lit Review for Research Methods
- Typology of New Yorker cartoons
- Two projects, two fuzzy ideas, two lit review processes
- The day I got no research done
- Assorted links
- Lavers on The Simple Life
- Unit Structures
- Is grad school a good idea?
- Research Journal for my 780 class
- Annoying Firefox problem fixed
- Assorted links
- What’s ahead for ol’ Mikey?
- On specifying your terms
- What I’m doing on my Christmas vacation
- Spring 2009 – Independent Study
- Status of the Ph.D.
- 2008 Fall Semester Wrap-up
- 2 VMWare Fusion tips
- Links Harvest
- Late night thoughts on getting a Ph.D.
- No Heroic Efforts
- Fall Review
- Writing research papers
- “The Midnight Disease”
- Birthday horoscope for Sept. 24
- Nirvana, or something like it
- On being a professional
- Storing Nuggets of Information
- The Trials of Joblessness
- While crossing campus this morning
- What I DIDN’T do this summer
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- Hallway conversations
- Links Harvest: novels, narrative, BAE
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- OK – message received
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- Winning Arguments (Unfairly)
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- As within, so without
- Too soon old, too late shmart…
- Running…out…of…gas…
- From MFA to MSIS
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- Halving, doubling, and Virginia Woolf
- Speed Networking
- Prototyping; GUIdebook
- Left-brain, definitely
- Links: file-naming conventions
- Jumping the gun on a MacBook?
- Links 2008-02-03
- Drafting scenarios and stories
- Article critiques: scenarios, stories
- Keeping Found Things Found
- How is it possible? More on email
- Systemantics
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- Emails as a Game of Life?
- Building models (info or economic) in your spare time
- Carrot2, a clustering search engine
- Doomsday is Friday
- End o’ the semester cleanup
- Done, done, and done
- Links for 6-Dec-07
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- My big fat learning experience
- “Library Lullaby”
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- Another new WP theme
- Librophiliac Love Letter: A Compendium of Beautiful Libraries
- Advice for a Forty-Odder from a Twenty-Something
- Information Architect
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- The Bandwidth of Books
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