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
Pot lids
In the latter half of the nineteenth century items like toothpaste and cosmetics started to be packaged in small ceramic pots. These pots are sought after by collectors of nineteenth century ephemera and good examples go for a couple of … Continue reading
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Open science citizen science and stuff
This is a post that has been knocking round the back of my brain ever since I ended up paying $16.50 to get a thesis from the University of Queensland. First, some terminology: Citizen science This term is used in … Continue reading
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Citizen science and access to libraries
Recently I’ve become interested in the development of natural history in nineteenth century Australia. After all not only was the Victorian era the heyday of natural history, but in Australia it had an importance in people trying to understand how … Continue reading
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A very tangential connection to the Russian Revolution …
Visiting family always seems to involve a boozy dinner with alittle too much red wine, or at least ours do. And as always with coneversations involving a decent red, sometimes they take some slightly odd turns. And so it was … Continue reading
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Opera girls …
We’ve started watching the ITV adaptation of Vanity Fair on BBC First. The lead protagonist, Becky Sharp, is described as the daughter of an ‘opera girl’, a term clearly designed to be redolent of illicit sex and debauchery. It’s the … Continue reading
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Chloroform
One aspect of the Catherine Morton case that puzzled me was just how common was chloroform in colonial Australia. So I did some digging. The key date in the story of chloroform is 1847, the year when Simpson first started using … Continue reading
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Magic Lanterns on easy terms
I recently came across a study carried out by a researcher at the University of Exeter in the UK where, by searching old newspaper adverts, they found evidence that people in Victorian times could hire magic lanterns and slides for … Continue reading
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Almost an unfortunate misunderstanding …
Recently we’ve been going out for the day scoping out places that might repay a visit, places such as local museums, abandoned town sites and the like. We might pretend that this is related to our interest in local history … Continue reading
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Paperclips
It was only a throwaway comment, but one thing that tickled my fancy about the presentation on the MAMA archaeological dig was the comment that paperclips were not used before the 1890’s. Actually they were. While the machinery was for … Continue reading
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MAMA – what lies beneath
Despite it being a pretty horrible sleety hail spattered day I had to go into Albury, so I decided to take in the presentation on the results of the archaeological dig that preceded the building of MAMA, the Albury art … Continue reading
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