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My home computer has crashed.  Anyone with more than one minute’s experience with a computer will have experienced a devastating crash.  Luckily, I had enough of these in my past that I purchased online backup, and am in the process of retrieving my files.  It’s ( Read more... )

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Wow. After having lost a video file to the aethers, I was forced to dig through my home hard drive to try to find it. Well, no such luck, but I did come across a bunch of video files I had forgotten that I ever took! It makes me wonder what all those lifelogger ( Read more... )

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Looks like I’ve been cited-somewhat accidentally.

A couple of months ago the Librarian In Black discovered a video that I had put up on YouTube for my Tantalizing Technology workshop. It was designed to show how faculty could use online videos for their classes or ( Read more... )

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Sometimes I sit around and dream of the perfect tool. The waffle iron that does my taxes. The electronic pet sitter. The personal-assistant-in-a-box. Then occasionally, some of these tools will magically appear, such as the USB beverage chiller. Zotero appears ( Read more... )

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One of the cons of being a Reference Librarian is that you have to work some weekends. Those weekends that I don’t have to work, I try to “get stuff done.” This last weekend, this consisted of my battle against the dreaded disease Packratitis. Being the ( Read more... )