I have a short proposal to write for a summer workshop (and it’s not due until the 4th and the budget is basically done) and not much else to do. I read Johnny Cash’s biography almost all day today except during the two-hour nap I took. It’s vacation!! I’m looking forward to [...]

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I just posted and had three comments almost immediately! So, in the interest of going with the flow, I decided to do something about it and found these directions for getting rid of comment spam. I followed them and we shall see if it helps.

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The semester is mercifully over. I had a great time and learned a lot but I also had to put some of my own stuff on hold. The past few days I have been reveling in free time and spent most of it in front of the PowerBook. I installed moodle…not too [...]

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So there they lay in the garage on the burn pile: my stack of gradebooks that have been in a box in the garage. I didn’t even browse through them. At some point, as you move forward, you also have to shed some of the past, and my gradebooks fall into [...]

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It’s a strange obsession, this book collecting habit of mine. As I look at the shelf, I wonder why I hang on to the old beat up copy of Edith Wharton’s House of Mirth or even the new copy of Tony Horowitz’s Confederates in the Attic. In the case of the latter, part [...]

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I am reading ahead for next semester, and for the leadership class, one of the assignments is to read the biography of someone we perceive to be a leader. I started with Mari Sandoz’s biography of Crazy Horse mostly because I had it and had been looking for an excuse to read it. [...]

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I am actively using Noter to do research for a paper and making minor cosmetic changes as I go such as sorting authors by lastname and putting the last name first. Here’s what I need in way of major additions pretty quickly: I need one page where the resource information is at top [...]

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I used the database to write a short piece for a group paper and discovered that I needed to have the page number of quotes appear. I also created a View Quotes choice in the Resource list that shows all the quotes related to a particular resource AND has the title at the top [...]

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