The problem of the war machine, or the firing squad: is a general necessary for n individuals to manage to fire in unison? Our applications for dissertation fellowships are due at the end of February, which means that I’ve had my sole chapter on the mind quite a bit lately, even while wasting most of [...]
Graduate students don’t have money. They need computers. I started seeing netbooks everywhere I turned this year. Students had them in the classroom, and postdocs (on a same level of poverty as grad students, I think) started ordering them. The netbook is a ultra-petite laptop. More than a smartphone (minus the “-phone”), but still not [...]
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Humanities Computing at the UofC recently had a lunchtime talk about various online bibliographic tools for academics. Hopefully it’ll eventually be online (hint, hint), but we spent most of our time discussing CiteULike (which IDidn’tLike) and the new public beta of Zotero 2.0. I’ve mentioned Zotero a bit in the past, but I want to [...]
I wrote a while ago that computing blogs bore me. This is still true. But this is a project not of telling you, the reader, about new gadgets or my complaints about various forms of software. Instead, this is documentation. I am documenting the technical means by which I am constructing my dissertation in the [...]