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Basic citations in Org (Part 1)
I did some sessions at work showing what Zotero can do, and my preparations got me caught up on the improvements in version 6 almost two years ago, which I’d read about but not tried. It’s fantastic. A...
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Managing times across time zones is difficult. The Software Freedom Conservancy recently ran four events that were scheduled to accommodate people all around world, and they announced them in an...
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Basic citations in Org (Part 2)
Numeric style in citation but not bibliographyIn Part 1 we took a citation in its simplest form, using the default basic citation processor, then ran through all its possible styles and variants, and...
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Nice-Looking Printed LibraryThing Catalogue updated
Nice-Looking Printed LibraryThing Catalogue (on GitHub at nlpltc) has had a bit of work and now the README is up to date and make test will do something. You can use nlpltc to take an export of your...
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Basic citations in Org (Part 3)
My look at citations in Org continues on from Part 1 and Part 2, and here I finish going through the document-level settings.Keywords and optionsWe can make document-level settings with three...
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Basic citations in Org (Part 4)
In parts 1, 2 and 3 we took a single citation in an Org document, applied citation and bibliography styles to it, and used the basic processor to export it. In this post I’ll look at the four...
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Basic citations in Org (Part 5)
This follows parts 1, 2 and 3 and 4 and brings me to the end of my look at the basic citation processor in Org. Next I’m going to look at the CSL processor, which uses the Citation Style Language. That...
View ArticleRaymond Briggs
The Raymond Briggsepisode of Desert Island Discs is wonderful. This quote stood out to me, where Sue Lawley and he are talking about the different kinds of work involved in doing graphic novels:It’s...
View ArticleMystery fictional footnotes added
Thanks to a wonderful list from Zi-Ling Yan (sent in 2022 but I just got to it) I added twenty authors to the Fictional Footnotes and Indexes list. All did footnotes, and all were mystery and pulp...
View ArticleSilence is so accurate
From Silence in the Age of Noise by Erling Kagge, translated by Becky L. Crook (New York: Pantheon, 2017), pp. 26–27:High-pitched noises can have many modes of expression, but the most powerful scream...
View ArticleMolly White, Become a Wikipedian in 30 Minutes
Become a Wikipedian in 30 Minutes, by Molly White, is a really good video:.bt-video-container iframe,.bt-video-container object,.bt-video-container...
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Canadaland testimonial
Some of the Canadaland podcasts have testimonials from supporters at the start. The host will say Canadaland is supported by So-and-So and Someone Else and list a few names, and end with “and also by...
View ArticleThirty years
I wrote this on 13 March 1994:I’ve been working on some hypertext, with HTML, and chatting on the IRC a fair bit.That was on Internex Online, the famous io.org. As K.K. Campbell wrote in “Party’s Over:...
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I got caught up on the last long-delayed-by-me batch of updates to the Fictional Footnotes and Indexes list, with a handful from Paul Cohen.
View ArticleThe Testimony of Patience Kershaw
The Unthanks performing “The Testimony of Patience Kershaw” by Frank Higgins:.bt-video-container iframe,.bt-video-container object,.bt-video-container...
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How I set up a Tor bridge
The Tor Project had a call out for people to set up bridges to help fight censorship. Here’s how I set one up in about ninety minutes.About bridgesThere are three types of relays in the Tor network:...
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Upgrading my Tor bridges
The Tor Project announced the release of version 0.4.8.11 of the Tor server, which meant it was time for me to upgrade the two relays I run, one of which I set up last week.In briefHere’s my...
View ArticleThe Science Teacher
While doing some collection development work I was looking at our holdings of The Science Teacher, a publication of the National Science Teaching Association. I flipped through some issues from the...
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BBC Radio 6 Music
Another weekend, another batch of great listening on BBC Radio 6 Music (see also its schedule). These shows are two hours unless otherwise.Freak Zone Playlist (Thursday 0000, one hour): “Hand-crafted...
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Illustration profile of Kady MacDonald Denton
I was delighted today when the Autumn 2023 issue of Illustration magazine arrived in the mail. It has a long profile of my mother Kady MacDonald Denton, rich with examples of her work from various...
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