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
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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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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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Patent medicines and nineteenth century globalisation
I spent a good part of yesterday documenting some nineteenth century patent medicine and cosmetic bottles. Many of the brands are totally unknown today, such as Beetham’s glycerine and cucumber, yet were well known in their time. A fairly simple … Continue reading
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Digitised newspapers and happenstance
A few days ago J showed me a photograph of beechworth from the early 1990’s that one of her Art Society friends had come across. Nothing unusual, but the photograph was from the New York Times, which did seem a … Continue reading
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Robert Burns Clow again
A couple of weeks ago I blogged about the fun I had unravelling the garbled story I had heard in Kuching about the death of Robin Burns Clow. Firstly, I’ll own up to making one mistake, the Anti Piracy expedition … Continue reading
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Warts and panic …
This is a more personal blog post than usual. Being an introvert by inclination I’m not one for sharing details of my life online. My interests and enthusiasms? yes! Personal stuff? Definitely not. However I’ve thought about this, and I … Continue reading
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Princess Alexandra in Alexandra no less
The little town of Alexandra in Victoria was not always called Alexandra. Originally it was called Red Gate, but some time after gold was found in the 1860’s it was renamed after Alexandra of Denmark, the wife of Bertie (later … Continue reading
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The Mohyu lockup
Yesterday was J’s birthday, and still in celebratory mode we decided that as today was a nice bright cold day, we’d drive over to Mansfield, stopping off at Harry Power’s lookout for a bit of a walk. Well, when we … Continue reading
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