One of the students in BUSINESS 101 noticed that in a reference such as (Oram, 2007; 2011) I was using colons, instead of commas. They said it should be (Oram, 2007, 2011). I was away from the office (without a copy of the Publication manual of the APA to hand), and I said it might …
There is a very good (well, I like it) summary of how to use Orgmode as a day planner at Lost in Technopolis.
I’ve been a big fan and user of Remember the milk. I found it a great way to manage my task, and so on, in a GTD like manner. As a bit of an aside, the GTD methodology really works for me … and every time I find work getting a bit out of control …
I really like Zotero. The more I use it, the more useful and powerful I find it. Also, the technical support for the product (from the community of users and especially from Dan Stillman is outstanding. Dan pointed out a really useful feature to me today. When adding items to Zotero, sometimes the title of …
Since moving to Zotero, I’ve found my ‘work flow’ to be much smoother. These few tips have made things even easier. I particularly find it useful when I’ve found a link to the full-text of an article, just to drag the link to the item in Zotero (and have Zotero auto-magically download into my library).
In writing my piece on referencing, I just Googled ‘apa referencing’ and here are the first page of search results. I was surprised by the results. First, I used Google.co.nz instead of Google.com (I normally use the later), and secondly the University of Auckland’s referencing resource Referen©ite didn’t feature at all on the first page. I …
Here we tend to use nVivo for qualitative research/analysis. It’s pretty robust, but the handling of PDF files leaves a lot to be desired. What nVivo seems to do is to convert the PDF into some sort of RTF-like format. Unfortunately the fidelity of the converted file isn’t that good. In fact, it can be …
Sometimes, it is really necessary to display a complex formula; such as this: I use MathTran to achieve this, rather than doing a complex server-side install of Latex. Then I can use a URL like the one below to dynamically display the equation above: http://www.mathtran.org/cgi-bin/mathtran?D=1;tex=\textstyle \Delta x \%2C\Delta p_x \ge \hbar/2 That reminds me, there is a …
Jo Badge talks a bit about her personal learning environment, and so I thought I’d draft out mine. I’m really web-centric and spend most of time ‘in’ Firefox (I sometimes think about switching to Chrome, but I’m hooked on Zotero). I found it interesting to consider what is missing here … there is no PowerPoint. …
I’ve just moved to beta version 1.5 of Zotero. It was a trial. # My database wouldn’t convert, so I had to upload it to their “db repair tool”:https://www.zotero.org/utils/dbfix/. # Upgrading the Word add-in irrevocably changes your documents so you can’t go back to 1.0. That isn’t a problem in its self, but it looked …
Like “many other people”:http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10164909–16.html, I’m concerned about the recent changes in Facebook’s terms of service. Especially, when I read how their “terms of service compare”:http://amandafrench.net/2009/02/16/facebook-terms-of-service-compared/ This is doubly true now that I’ve read the “New Yorker”:http://www.newyorker.com/ article on the subject. So, being unable to delete my Facebook account, I’ve: * turned off as many “applications” …
I’ve taken the plunge and moved to “gmail”:https://mail.google.com/ for all my email. I’ve exported all my email, contacts, and calendar, and notes and then imported them into gmail. For all my non university email addresses, I’ve set up forwarding so it goes straight to my gmail account. The IT wonks at the “university”:http://www.auckland.ac.nz/ are in …