Complaints over the cost of academic journals have long been a trope that repeats at library conferences with no denouement, but there are new signs that might be changing.
February 20, 2012
The Microsoft Store Experience
There’s a Microsoft Store right across from the Apple Store in the Valley Fair Mall. Cliff and I realized this after exiting the Apple Store there with a new keyboard and headphones. We’d never been in an MS Store before, so we ambled over with our clean white Apple-branded accessories in hand. The Windows Phone [...]
February 12, 2012
Marta Becket’s Final Performance Tonight
Legend has it that Marta Becket rolled in to Death Valley Junction in 1967 and has been performing at the Amargosa Opera House since, but tonight is her last performance. I visited in 2004 and took in the show then. It’s a certain kind of show and performer that can run 45 years non-stop (it was [...]
January 9, 2012
i’ve useing wpcas in wordpress 3.3.1 with extranet and have some trouble with authentication with frontend proxy service.
January 2, 2012
Action Cameras
You know about Countour and GoPro, but you may not have seen Drift and Swann. Is this a market that is getting saturated, or is it about to explode? Contour marketing video: GoPro marketing video: Drift marketing video: Swann marketing video: Three of the cameras compared:
January 1, 2012
Happy New Scriblio!
The most recently released, stable version of Scriblio is marked 2.9-r1 and was last updated in June 2010. You can be forgiven for thinking development had ceased in the interim. Today, however, I’m proud to introduce a completely new Scriblio, re-written from the ground up to take advantage of the latest features of WordPress and eliminate the mistakes [...]
December 31, 2011
How WordPress Taxonomy Query URLs Could Be More Awesomer
(Updated, see below) WordPress 3.1 introduced some awesome new taxonomy query features, and the URL parsing allows some rudimentary syntax to query multiple terms and choose if the query is OR’d or AND’d. The URL syntax is as follows: A comma (,) between terms will return posts containing either term (logical OR), like this http://maisonbisson.com/blog/post/tag/wordpress,mysql/ . A [...]
December 26, 2011
GE Public Relations Gets Smart To The Cool Video Thing
The video from General Electric is cool, and shot at least in part with cameras mounted on RC helicopters, but strangely missing is any mention their manufacture of nuclear generation equipment such as the Fukushima plants that melted down earlier this year.
December 24, 2011
“Hot Sweet Wings” and other wonders composed with the help of Songify
Cliff introduced me to the wonder of the Songify app. Here are some tips to making the best of it: Longer text makes for better songs. Repetition makes for better songs, don’t be ashamed of repeating yourself. Speak in a monotone voice, let the app handle the tune. Speak nonsense. No sense in trying to make [...]
December 21, 2011
Wikileaks Embassy Cables
First Wikileaks published the collateral murder video, then a massive-but-redacted dump of diplomatic cables, then people figured out how to get the unredacted content. Though this information was already public, the ACLU pursued a FOIA request on these very cables, the result was a heavily redacted record of the cables, and a clear picture of [...]
December 20, 2011
parallel-flickr Backs Up Your Flickr Library
parallel-flickr: a tool for backing up your Flickr photos and generating a database backed website that honours the viewing permissions you’ve chosen on Flickr. More details from the website: It downloads and stores your original photos and their “640x” versions. Currently photos are stored locally but there’s a plan to add support for S3. For [...]
December 19, 2011
Predator Drones Used In Domestic Police Action
The LA Times on December 10 reported that Predator drones such as those now being used by the Air Force and CIA were used to support police in their investigation of cattle rustling. Theft of livestock has long been a serious matter, but regulations and procedures typically make it difficult to sell stolen cattle. According [...]
December 19, 2011
The War On Cameras
WNYC’s On The Media did a nice piece on it back in September (MP3 download): judging from the arrests and harassment, photographers are part of a terrorist plot. Or something. The CopBlock (tagline: “badges don’t grant extra rights”) map of actions taken against photographers is littered with activity.
December 17, 2011
Pick Your Phone Like You Pick Your Partner
If there’s anything to gender stereotypes, women like iPhones in the same way they like a man who brings home flowers and puts his nail clippings in the trash without being asked. It’s these small touches that, when combined with other necessary attributes, make them feel confident in the future of the relationship. Men like [...]
Thank you – got it working with that simple tweak.
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