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Re: The Cavalier Daily :: (Not) singin' in the rain

tjarrett — Tue, 03 Sep 2013 13:19:17 -0000

Good to know that the New Dominions are still "up and coming," 23 years after their debut in the fall of 1990.

Re: Encryption

tjarrett — Thu, 29 Aug 2013 11:52:00 -0000

Dave, can you clarify what encryption level you're using in the library? AES-128, 192, or 256 bits?

Re: Calls come for increased student input post-breach

tjarrett — Mon, 29 Jul 2013 13:00:15 -0000

I hope to goodness that, in addition to student input, the University gets some application security expertise on the problem as well.

Re: Infographic: The Complete History of Vertigo Comics

tjarrett — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 09:19:56 -0000

Because Sandman had a run of 47 issues before it became a Vertigo title.

Re: Scripting News: Memolane is sweet

tjarrett — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 09:42:54 -0000

Finally something that does something with publish date information. Coool.

Re: Why the Kindle Is Losing Me

tjarrett — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 23:09:20 -0000

I actually agree with the points being made about the need for new citation formats--arguably Wikipedia is doing some good work here--but agree with Lacy about the page number problem in the academic market. For me there are two concerns:

1. Referring to Kindle locations requires access to the Kindle edition, which means purchasing it. Do academic libraries purchase ebooks, or does the researcher need to purchase the edition herself?

2. References WITHIN Kindle eBook content. I'm currently working my way through a semipopular/semischolarly book on Kindle, and it has page # references within the footnotes and the text. Page numbers, not converted to Kindle locations, and not hyperlinked. How am I supposed to follow the content inside the book itself? So now the publisher needs to do an additional step to prepare the Kindle version, or else the reader needs a hard copy to follow what's in the ebook--just to read it, not even to cite it.

Re: Fotomattic - A little keyed up One year ago tonight, after...

tjarrett — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:09:08 -0000

Congratulations, Zalm! Let the houseblogging begin!

Re: Update on the 1000HE (Scripting News)

tjarrett — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:57:52 -0000

Great writeup, Dave. The other thing I recommend for everyone running Firefox is the NoScript extension (http://noscript.net/). It allows you to whitelist the sites that are allowed to run JavaScript and media in your browser--which is an effective defense against many web-based attacks.

Re: Fotomattic - Spent all day setting up my office and...

tjarrett — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 11:33:24 -0000

Date with IKEA?

Re: Who will be the Republican VP nominee? (Scripting News)

tjarrett — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:31:15 -0000

I so hope that Romney gets it. I would really relish watching him get beaten again. Color me still bitter over the way he ran for governor of Massachusetts so that he could slam us in every stump speech he gave.

Re: Make some of your own (Scripting News)

tjarrett — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 14:56:20 -0000

Blogdex, a project at the MIT Media Lab, was doing this several years ago. The results were interesting but proved spam-prone, and the experiment didn't survive its founder, Cameron Marlowe, graduating and going to Yahoo! But maybe someone could pick up that work and start again.

Re: Watch out Squirrel Boy

tjarrett — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 09:04:17 -0000

Reading ComScore data requires a high priest of statistics sitting next to you, whispering, "Where did they get that sample? Who does it represent?" Given that most Wall Street reporters never got much higher than basic arithmetic, it's not surprising that the data is being abused so badly.

Re: Write error on startup?

tjarrett — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 10:04:30 -0000

Never mind. I didn't move the OPML folder to Applications and tried to start it while it was still in my Downloads folder. Which, under Leopard, is apparently sandboxed--the editor couldn't write any files while the application was still in there. Moving it to the Applications folder fixed the problem.

Boy, give me a two step installation and I skip a step. Hopeless...