habitually probing generalist

Constructing my previous post, Books Read in 2010, was far too difficult.  Still. I keep a simple running list of books I read in VoodooPad, a personal wiki, on my laptop.  I record them by date started, author’s last name and title.  When I finish I add that date.  At some point I look them [...]

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How It Seems to Me: New & Selected Poems Phil Hey; MWPH Books 2004 WorldCat•LibraryThing•Google Books•BookFinder I have been wanting to try the OpenBook plugin for WordPress for a while now. When I came back to blogging a few months ago John Miedema posted on his own blog that he was working on version 3 [...]

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COinS I’m just giving up. There will be no more in my posts; at least for the citations I include. I’m tired of all the work I have to do to get the citations out of Zotero as HTML, open the source of the generated web page, copy the div with the COinS, paste it [...]

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This post is for all of you running WordPress blogs. The short version: These guys rock hard! Buy this book! Longer version: In case you do not know it, there is a blog called Digging Into WordPress which puts out a lot of valuable information on all aspects of WP. A while ago they released [...]

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29 January is the 5th anniversary of my public blogging. I had a Bloglines private blog for about 9 days before I got fed up with its lack of capabilities. That 1st proto-blog was called In My Secret Life… via Leonard Cohen. The 1st public-facing blog debuted on 29 January 2005 at bookmark.typepad.com and was [...]

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Change of blog name I have changed the name of my blog. Again. This time it should not break any of the Internet nor should you need to change feeds; I hope. 3 years ago tomorrow I moved my blog to WordPress and renamed it Off the Mark. This was after a few years of [...]

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He’s incommunicado No comment to make He’s saying nothing at all Yeah but in the communique You know he’s gonna come clean … [Communique - Dire Straits] Seems I don’t have much to say anymore. We’ve all read of the death of blogging. The move to Friendfeed and Twitter. XYZ. None of those are entirely [...]

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Not sure where this blog is going this year. I said some things last year about where I wanted to take it / thought it might go and it got nowhere near any of those places. I read through all of my posts for 2008 on the 1st and 2nd. Wow! What a year! Talk [...]

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After seeing several posts about Wordle I finally decided to play. The easiest thing for me to play with were my del.icio.us tags. Even these are not entirely representative or, I should say, not accurately representative. Based on previous (faulty) workflow, it is the case that there are hundreds of posts in Bloglines that I [...]

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I got a quick IM from a friend the other night wondering how I was doing as I have been quiet lately. Yes. Yes I have. There are a lot of reasons for this. Some of it is lack of time to do all the things I’d like to. There are probably other reasons, too, [...]

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