Geeky stuff- And just for fun, I installed Xubuntu on the IdeaPad
- Taking an old iMac to Ubuntu 26.04LTS
- A workflow for photographing coins and old postcards...
- Using the Xubuntu Yoga 11e
- Victorian tin hat boxes and AI
- Xubuntu on a Yoga 11e
- Xubuntu on an i5 based Thinkpad
- Distraction free writing
- Using the phone camera stand
- Hygenic Libraries in the 1950s
- Building an archive solution
- Preprints and repositories in the Soviet Union
- Light weight cataloguing with BibTex
- What do we actually mean by data retention?
- Using BibTex for artefact description
- Open source literature and citizen science
- Scientific communication in pre 1989 Eastern Europe
- What is a repository?
- Lodlam 2015
- Electronic resources and BibTeX
- Exporting references from Dspace in BibTeX format
Author Archives: dgm
And finally, an Edward VII quarter anna
Well, I couldn’t resist, and bought myself an Edward VII quarter anna from ebay Much as you would expect, except that instead of wearing a crown, Edward VII is shown bare headed, making the resemblance to the British half penny … Continue reading
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A painted 1880’s ceiling
Owning an old wooden house is an adventure. Things move, things warp, you find strange things have been done by previous owners, etc, etc… This winter past, our roof began to leak. It had done so before, and we’d had … Continue reading
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The end of happenstance
I recently tooted a link to an article decrying the disappearance of the cheap mass market paperback book And it’s true, the small paperback that would fit into a coat pocket has almost disappeared, to be replaced with the larger … Continue reading
More quarter annas …
When I posted about my journey down a colonial Indian coinage rabbit hole, the image I posted of a Queen Victoria quarter anna was of a pretty worn example. Since then I’ve acquired a slightly less worn example Still pretty … Continue reading
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A Quarter Anna rabbit hole …
I’ve been down a rabbit hole. It all started when I noticed that the Indian colonial quarter anna coin was almost, but not quite, the same size and weight as the old British half penny. So what was a quarter … Continue reading
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Pennies!
Now and again, people ask me about old coins and such like they’ve found digging in their gardens. Mostly they’re low value coins, pennies and half pennies. Covered in dirt, and perhaps a little corroded, they can seem difficult to … Continue reading
The Marseilles – Ventimiglia railway ..
The Marseille Ventimiglia railway has quite a storied history. When it opened in the early 1870s it provided a link, in fact the only railway link between Italy and France, and remained so until the lines across the Alps via … Continue reading
Another Too Late postmark
I’ve been spending my pennies again, this time on another example of a Too Late postmark on a postcard from April 1883 sent to a hotel in San Remo in Italy The reverse shows an acknowledgement from Pitt and Scott, … Continue reading
Cocaine, 1916, and the bright young things…
Since discovering Agatha Christie, I’ve read two or three of her novels, and at the same time I’ve read a couple of other Golden Age crime novels, Murder must advertise, by Dorothy L Sayers and Death of an Airman by … Continue reading
The road from Damascus
A Renault 4 on the desert road between Damascus and Baghdad in 1970 – wikimedia commons When I wrote about Agatha Christie travelling to Iraq, I mentioned how she took an express bus from Damascus to Baghdad. There was no … Continue reading
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