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About dgm

Former IT professional, previously a digital archiving and repository person, ex research psychologist, blogger, twitterer, and amateur classical medieval and nineteenth century historian ...

Dialup memories

Posted on May 2, 2013 by dgm

April 30 marked the twentieth anniversary of CERN making the world wide web and its protocols public domain. What’s often forgotten now is that the web was only one of the protocols around, there were alternatives, such as gopher, that … Continue reading →

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Calorie restriction and the San diet

Posted on April 26, 2013 by dgm

I have a paunch. Not a big one, but a definite paunch. To add to it my blood pressure and cholesterol are a little higher than they should be for a man of my age. In fact that’s part of … Continue reading →

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Foxes in Victoria

Posted on April 26, 2013 by dgm

I’ve previously written about urban foxes in Canberra, and it comes as no surprise to find that foxes (both urban and rural) are pretty common in Victoria. Las week when we were driving from Daylesford to Queenscliff we were treated … Continue reading →

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Driving to Daylesford

Posted on April 23, 2013 by dgm

A long and unseasonably warm drive down the freeway to Victoria. We started just after seven and broke for a coffee at the bakery in Holbrook sometime after 10.30. The drive down had been uneventful though a dry yellowing autumn … Continue reading →

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Padaek, garum and nam pla

Posted on April 8, 2013 by dgm

One of the infuriating things about the Romans is that they didn’t do documentation, or if they did, an early medieval monk didn’t find it titillating enough, and used it to light the fire or worse. In very crude terms … Continue reading →

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Orwell and Pyongyang

Posted on April 8, 2013 by dgm

Orwellian. Anyone watching the pictures from North Korea must be immediately reminded of George Orwell’s 1984, with the chanting hate sessions and the screaming rhetoric. Orwell is of course for ever linked with 1984 and Animal Farm, both of which … Continue reading →

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Proudlock and QueryPic

Posted on April 4, 2013 by dgm

Following my playing with QueryPic and the Lincoln assasination I thought I’d have a quick experiment to see how the Proudlock murder case was reported. I’d originally thought about a ‘compare and contrast’ with Welsh Papers online but their corpus … Continue reading →

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Newspaper logos and the British Empire

Posted on April 2, 2013 by dgm

Newspaper brands and logos are much of a muchness, although you can pick out some memes – like the use of an Olde English style font for a bit of gravitas as seen in ‘proper papers’  like the SMH, Canberra … Continue reading →

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Using Welsh Papers online ..

Posted on March 20, 2013 by dgm

Inspired by my various experiments with Trove and QueryPic and following on from Jim Mussell and Bob Nicholson’s posts about the new Welsh newspapers online site, I thought I’d give it a go with my favourite topics of the moment, … Continue reading →

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How the news came from Galle

Posted on March 18, 2013 by dgm

Happenstance is a wonderful thing. I was helping J out yesterday by googling for some nineteenth century sources about early steamship travel to Australia when I came across this study (DOI 10.2104.ha070006) which confirms what I had suspected from my earlier … Continue reading →

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