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Other people’s research, data management, and paperwork…

Posted in Being a scholar, Other, Technology on February 1, 2008 | Comments Off

I really seem to post in spurts, don’t I.  3-4 times one day, then nothing for a few days.  I spent most of tuesday and wednesday nights pulling together some data for my adviser and a paper he is working on with another group of people.  I was tasked with pulling the descriptive statistics for [...]

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I *heart* google books

Posted in Being a scholar, Technology, Tools on January 20, 2008 | Comments Off

Part of being a scholar, particularly one with a historical bent, is dredging through dusty library stacks to find obscure books that might be relevant to what you are writing on.  Or at least that is what being a scholar USED to mean. Now I can throw in a search string and find a book [...]

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7 audience-oriented tips for Powerpoint Presentations

Posted in Technology, Writing on November 5, 2007 | Comments Off

Research findings are often presented in things other than papers.  Today I spent all day working on a pile of data for a presentation tomorrow.  Thus part of my day was spent thinking about how best to put this information onto slides.  While the answer to that question varies from topic to topic, here are [...]

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If anyone knows how to move this to WordPress….

Posted in Other, Technology on November 2, 2007 | Comments Off

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A quick apology…

Posted in Other, Technology on October 31, 2007 | Comments Off

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Reading: Paper or Plastic?

Posted in Academic life, Reading, Technology, Tools on October 13, 2007 | Comments Off

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Zotero

Posted in Productivity, Reading, Technology, Tools, Writing on September 29, 2007 | Comments Off

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“Just Say No” to USB hubs

Posted in Technology on September 29, 2007 | Comments Off

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