Monthly Archives: October 2006

CONELRAD: an Online Mecca for Cold War Culture

I have been so industrious as of late 🙂 that I have almost forgotten to slow down a bit and have a little fun, this is a “b” blog after all. Well, some folks might define fun as sniffing glue … Continue reading

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Librarians Rule! Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb

My English 101 class spent the evening last night with Jack Bales, the Humanities librarian at UMW. Jack’s teaching style is wonderfully enthusiastic and rigorous. He worked us through the intricacies of database searching with dash and exactitude. He spent … Continue reading

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Doing things with bbpress

I saw the most recent announcement from WordPress this morning regarding the latest, stable version of WPMU (ver. 1.0 -a milestone) and the integration of a phpbb forum with WordPress, known as bbpress. Both of these developments are really exciting … Continue reading

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The Yahoo Time Capsule

Upon signing out of Fickr after uploading some images, I was presented with an advertisement for something called the Yahoo Time Capsule. See the ad below: My interest was piqued by the “Smithsonian Folkways Recordings” link as well as the … Continue reading

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Doings things with Pachyderm 2.0.2

At Faculty Academy 2006 last Spring, Rachel Smith gave an excellent presentation on Pachyderm. Pachyderm is … … an easy-to-use multimedia authoring tool. Designed for people who have little or no multimedia authoring experience, Pachyderm is accessed through a web … Continue reading

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Open Source Templates

Thanks go to Dmitry Dulepov for bringing Andreas Viklund’s opens source templates to Typo3 (currently typo3 has extensions for Andreas01 & andreas09). I have been playing with andreas01 here if you want to take a look (it is still a … Continue reading

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DAM that Typo3

I recently returned to an online exhibit I had worked on last Spring with John Pearce’s Museum lab class. Link. The site was running on Typo3 version 3.8, and I spent some time a few weeks ago updating it to … Continue reading

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Exceeding CPU Limits with Bluehost

A few times over the last month I have exceeded the limits of the server CPU on Bluehost. Three of the four times I have gotten the message above (which suspends my entire account for at least a few minutes). … Continue reading

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