I pressed ‘export to PDF’ and twenty seconds later Open Office produced a 437 page PDF of my dissertation. This isn’t the end of course. There is still the defense and then depositing. However, the big push is over. It’s too bad really — I was just starting to feel like it was coming together… [...]
Err…. I know that sounds like a bad pr0n site, but in fact there are two very cool OpenDirs of pictures from PNG that some random person (too long to explain who) has left open to the public. One is apparently from a trip he and his girlfriend made to “the Tolukuma Gold Mine”:http://dj.dynamo.online.fr/tolukuma/ while [...]
“University of Illinois Press”:http://www.press.uillinois.edu/index.html is releasing some of its catalog “electronically”:http://www.press.uillinois.edu/epub/main.html for free. This includes “anthropology books”:http://www.press.uillinois.edu/epub/books_s.html#Anthropology. The two that I notice of particular interest are “the David Schneider festschrift”:http://www.press.uillinois.edu/epub/books/feinberg/ and a book on “Katherine Dunham”:http://www.press.uillinois.edu/epub/books/aschenbrenner/toc.html who has always been one of my heroes. When I left Papua New Guinea my favorite beatle was Paul [...]
Just in case anyone was confused about what I meant about the amount of coordination required to produced realtime mining in PNG when your equipment was so fearsome, here’s a nice picture of a 789: !http://alex.golub.name/pics/789.jpg! The bolts used to hold the thing together could kill if they fell on you, much less the whole [...]
“Rojo”:http://rojo.com/, the ‘RSS reader with mojo’ has gone public. It’s basically RSS feeds + tags. It was the belle of the ball at a few emerging techology conferences in the past year or so, but excitement about it seems to have cooled since then. I think you can still sign up on their site, but [...]