Geeky stuff- Not a lot of progress
- Bottles (again)
- Finding Louisa
- Mrs Crow continues to confuse
- Louisa, you have led me a merry dance...
- So, how's the facebook thing going?
- The things one finds in old books ...
- Swapping out my old Thinkpad for an Acer Travelmate
- Prayer and hymn books
- Joseph King's cheap circulating library in Norwich
- 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
Open source genealogy–lessons learned
Well, my little fun exercise chasing John Moncur through Napoleonic era naval lists and so on has shown me that it’s perfectly possible to use open source materials, with two important caveats – firstly, the person investigated has to be … Continue reading
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Open source genealogy
Out of curiosity I thought I’d see what I could find out about John Moncur, who was a Royal Navy Master and Commander at the end of the eighteenth century, and who just possibly might be an ancestor of mine, … Continue reading
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Slavery’s legacy ?
I have a slightly unusual surname, and while I’m not an expert on my family’s history by any means, everything seems to point back to somewhere in the north east of Scotland as a point of origin, and in the … Continue reading
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New year 2017
Well we sat out on the deck, ate prawns and drank champagne while we watched the sun set. Later on we watched a reprise of the Queen 1975 Christmas Eve concert and a doco on the Stones, while the cat … Continue reading
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The price of books in Australia
In Australia, we have a system whereby if a local publisher acquires the rights to a book and publishes an Australian edition, distributors are barred from selling overseas editions, except as remainders or as second hand books. This is supposed … Continue reading
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Well folks, it’s a year since I retired
Next weekend marks a year since I retired. Not that I actually retired then, I had some sabbatical leave owing, meaning that formally I retired at the end of April, but this time last year I was saying my goodbyes … Continue reading
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Notebooks
I’m an obsessive about notebooks. As well as obsessing about suitable devices for taking notes, I use notebooks extensively, and I’m picky, very picky. Moleskine or Rhodia for bound notebooks for use as travel journals, and Clairefontaine, Rhodia or Moleskine … Continue reading
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Supermoon
Supermoon over Woragee from Factory Lane Ok, most definitely not the best photograph, taken on a Samsung Galaxy at about 2010 AEDT last night, but we had fun driving round the back roads to get a decent view of the … Continue reading
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The V/line train to Melbourne
Last Tuesday, we needed to go to the city (actually St Kilda, but never mind) and instead of driving we caught the train to celebrate our becoming eligible for Seniors’ travel cards. In a lot of places, a 500 km … Continue reading
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Bulgaria and the end of world war 1
It was pouring with rain today, too wet to do anything outsider or much inside, so I treated myself to some downtime researching how Australian newspapers reported the abdication of Nicholas II. Of course, Nicholas II was not the only … Continue reading
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