Notebook Skins
“When she wore it at dinner that night, he discovered that the fragrance truly did not differ from that of Jill herself; in some unclear fashion it simply made Jill smell more deliciously like Jill...
View ArticleAdobe Creatively Spying From the Cloud
“Really, Doctor. Must we always play this game? I’m no more a spy than you are …” ” … a doctor.” Garak and Dr. Bashir in Star Trek DS9: “Cardassians” I finally decided to purchase Adobe Creative Cloud...
View ArticleA Digital Bullet Journal with Apple’s Keynote
“I don’t care about what something was designed to do, I care about what it can do.” Gene Kranz in “Apollo 13” I recently watched a few YouTube videos about Bullet Journals and I got a bit inspired...
View ArticleSome remarks on Student Project Reports
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. Henry Ford I have recently corrected four student project reports (3x by bachelor and 1x by master students). When I remember my time as a...
View ArticleGreat Vidcast: Aydin Paladin on YouTube
“We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.” Edward R. Murrow (1908-1965), American Broadcast Newsman in “Good Night and Good Luck” Always nice to find a podcast that combines humor,...
View ArticleFirefox ESR
After months of training and you finally understand all of a program’s commands, a revised version of the program arrives with an all-new command structure. Thoreau’s First Theory of Adaptation As...
View ArticleSome remarks on the Kindle Voyager eBook Reader
The written word is all that stands between memory and oblivion. Without books as our anchors, we are cast adrift, neither teaching nor learning. They are windows on the past, mirrors on the present,...
View ArticleMundane Tasks — Perl to the Rescue Part 2
If a thing is worth doing, it’s worth doing well — unless doing it well takes so long that it isn’t worth doing any more. Then you just do it ‘good enough’. “Programming perl” by Wall and Schwartz I...
View ArticleHey, DEVONthink To Go is actually quite good now
The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good. Robert Graves I store my files within DEVONthink on my Mac. The professional...
View ArticleReading digitally with the iPad Pro, the Apple Pencil, GoodReader and the...
“It’s all done by magic, Archchancellor.” “Ah. Right. None of that complicated business with springs and cogwheels and tubes and stuff, then.” “That’s right, sir. Just magic. Sufficiently advanced...
View ArticleiOS 11 Wifi and Bluetooth on-off settings — honi soit qui mal y pense
«Uh, Mr. Burns, people are calling this a meltdown.» «Oh, meltdown. It’s one of these annoying buzzwords. We prefer to call it an unrequested fission surplus.» Kent Brockman and Mr. Burns, over the...
View ArticleGoodNotes for iOS allows for good note-taking on an iPad Pro (with an Apple...
I mean when Pope Benedict asked Giotto for a drawing to prove his worth as an artist, what he did was draw a perfect circle freehand. Perfection is a powerful message. The Sphere There’s something to...
View ArticleOnline Presentation [German]: Wissenschaftliches Schreiben
Writing is easy. All you have to do is sit at a typewriter and open a vein. Walter Wellesley «Red» Smith A while ago I did a presentation of scientific writing. I found the content useful enough to put...
View ArticleOnline Presentation [Broken English]: Scientific Writing
«It is a pity you do not understand either ancient or modern Greek, both of which Haidee speaks so fluently; the poor child will be obliged to talk to you in Italian, which will give you but a very...
View ArticleLearning Analytics, Ethics, and Dutch Uncles
“There is an old expression, ‘a Dutch uncle,’ which refers to a person who gives you honest feedback. Pausch (2008) There was an interesting discussion about learning analytics today. Should you do it...
View ArticleMaking sense of the stuff you have collected during the initial stages of...
«He had a plan. Maybe you just didn’t see it ’til it hit you between the eyes. But, it started to make sense … in a Tyler sort of way. No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not...
View ArticleThat time of giving …
«Mike dear, a present ought not to be very expensive – unless you are trying to get a girl to marry you, or something. Especially ‘something’. But a present should show that you thought about it and...
View ArticleReading PDFs by Making Margin Notes
The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers. Sydney J. Harris If you prefer to do notes by hand in the margins of the text, you...
View ArticleWhat makes a good outliner?
«The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste.» Steve Jobs A colleague of mine is currently developing an outliner. There is a surprising scarcity of good outliners, esp. for Windows....
View ArticleA short shout-out to R
The programmer’s national anthem is ‘AAAAAAAAHH’. Weinberg When it comes to statistics, at least for psychologists, SPSS is frequently used. It’s a statistical package originating from the mainframe...
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