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Switching to WordPress

I’ve changed from using MoveableType to use WordPress for the software supporting this blog. It just seems so much easier to be using WordPress. I’m also going to have to find another web hosting service for webliminal.com. My current package at cihost.net doesn’t support the versions of mysql and php that I need for WordPress […]

2007 05 23 Commentary Comments (0)

Hello world!

Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!

2007 05 22 Commentary Comments (1)

The Stafford Star Advertiser – some items of interest

The Stafford Star Advertiser is a weekly publication that contains several of the stories that appeared in the Free Lance-Star from the week before as well as a section of classified ads and other advertisements. Like most of the products produced by a newspaper company, its purpose is to provide a medium for advertisements. Here […]

2007 03 08 Commentary Comments (0)

Fred Vargas & the French Mystery

I recently read Seeking Whom He May Devour: Chief Inspector Adamsberg Investigates (Chief Inspector Adamsberg Mysteries) a thoroughly enjoyable book. The setting for much of the story is a section of France a little north of Nice. WE had the pleasure of spending some days in and near Nice a few years ago, and also […]

2007 03 07 Books Comments (0)

Seed Starting

I started some tomato, pepper, lettuce, basil, and assorted flower seeds about 10 days ago. The pepper seeds haven’t sprouted yet, but most of the others have the first pair of leaves out. Today I planted seeds for Maltese Cross and Red Milkweed. These are seeds that are suppose to be chilled before planting, so […]

2007 03 02 Gardening Comments (0)

Interfere with the interface

One of the podcasts that I’ve signed up for and occasionally listen to is TED talks. Very cool. The one I was listening to today is “Three minutes of fast-paced, whip-smart wordsmithing from spoken-word artist Rives, who has some unconventional ideas about how the Internet should be run. (Recorded November 2006 in New York, NY. […]

2007 02 27 Interesting Web Sites Comments (0)

Mathematicians in Love

Rudy Rucker writes and spins another great tale of mathematics, computing, and science fiction. He does a great job of capturing the blend of the love for the intellectual, carnal, romantic, and fantastic lives that we experience through our own lives. He takes it further than most of us go in terms of our own […]

2007 02 25 Books Comments (0)

Web 2.0 at YouTube

I realize I’m coming a little late to this, but today I came across a very nice video at YouTube, “Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us,” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE, by Michael Wesch, an assistant professor of cultural anthropology at Kansas State University. Very nice work. — U.S. Deaths Confirmed By The DoD: 3129 Reported U.S. […]

2007 02 18 About the Internet and the Web
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The Book

A friend who is an associate professor of linguistics at University of Mary Washington sent me a link the the video “Introducing the book,” http://www.devilducky.com/media/57946/. Now other colleagues are sending me a link to it. The video is very clever. The lines I like the best is “Open it? If it had been that straight […]

2007 02 18 About the Internet and the Web
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Virginia Higher Education Advocacy Day 2007

  Several Mary Washington faculty went to Richmond on January 11, 2007 to talk with our representatives in the Virginia Legislature and participate in Virginia Higher Education Advocacy Day. The event is organized and sponsored by the Faculty Senates of Virginia and the Virginia Conference of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). This marked […]

2007 01 14 Commentary Comments (0)