Not sure if many of you use Google Reader, but I keep finding more uses for it. One of the great discoveries I made a couple of weeks ago is ticTOCs, a journal Table-of-Contents service. I'd been having problems keeping up with and keeping track of the journals I should be reading (without paying memberships and for them to mail them to me every ( Read more... )

So I'm just idly surfing the 'net and clicking on random articles. And we all know one of the major banes of the WWW is the amount of advertising that gets thrown at you from every which way.

Here's how MSN/bing is DOIN IT RONG.
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I need to blog. Something about the lull of summer in July, when things are half over, and most of the initial excitement of the season ("vacation") has faded into a rededication to work and things that need to be done. Last week was spent mostly marking a stack of really badly written assignments for the summer Introduction to Human Geography ( Read more... )

C'mon Jackalope! Do your thing.

The upgrade failed about 3 hours into the download this afternoon. I'm setting up for the night now. Hope it's done and complete by morning.