Readers, I would like some advice from you. I am about sick of the crappy music-playing and -recording software that came pre-installed on my Dell desktop PC. Here’s the crap I am currently using: For listening to CDs and MP3 files: Musicmatch Jukebox 10 For ripping audio tracks from CD into MP3 files: Musicmatch Jukebox [...]
Here’s a brief story to illustrate why it’s a good idea to get your eyes checked regularly. I hadn’t seen an optometrist since the last time I got new eyeglasses (I’m extremely nearsighted and have to wear glasses at all times), back in 1998. That’s a long time. During a recent eye exam, the optometrist [...]
Northstar, who writes The People’s Republic of Seabrook, is going on a well-deserved vacation for the next couple of weeks. I will be among the writers whom he has kindly invited to fill in for him during his absence. TPRS is a “Large Mammal” in that wretched “Ecosystem,” with around 170 incoming links (I think [...]
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I’m back from a very pleasant week in Reno, and there are over one thousand unread blog posts lined up in my trusty RSS-feed aggregator. It looks like I’ve got some serious reading to do. What was the absolute highlight of your vacation, you’re wondering? Well, it might have been catching a glimpse of Dennis [...]
Tomorrow I’m going to visit family in Reno, NV, the “biggest little city in the world.” There will not be much activity here until I get back home on Sunday, 31 July.
Kevin Drum has responded to the Chronicle article “Bloggers Need Not Apply,” which I discussed a couple of days ago. He concurs with the point I made, that, while it’s disconcerting to imagine academics losing out on job opportunities because of their weblogs, it’s really something to think about for non-academics. Here are some excerpts [...]
Today I saw a rather disturbing article at the Chronicle of Higher Education. It’s been commented on already by Bitch Ph.D. and by Robert Farley at Lawyers, Guns, and Money. I’ve been blogging under my own name, on and off, for years (http://dumpendebat.net is my fourth URL). It’s articles like this one that are really [...]
