Blogs about: Quasi Academic Banter

Got a look at the Gdium Liberty 1000 at FOSSLC1 comment

Michael wrote 1 month ago: Last week I attended the Free / Open-source Software Learning Centre’s (FOSSLC) SummerCamp 200 … more →

Tags: development, Gadgetry, F/OSS, Gdium, Netbook, Open-Source, summercamp09

How do you deal with twitter spammers?

Michael wrote 2 months ago: I recently discovered twtpoll.com, a free, no-hassle polling system originally designed for polling … more →

Tags: microblog, Poll, socialmedia, Spam, twitter

Debian package source goes too far?

Michael wrote 1 year ago: Last year I took an absolutely fascinating class with Dr Natasha Artemeva in the applied linguistics … more →

Tags: Life, dpkg, Humor, Linguistics, Programming, quodlibet, rhetorical genre studies

"Give south Indian authors their true names" [in journals]

Michael wrote 1 year ago: In a recent correspondence published in the journal Nature (Nature 452, 530 (3 April 2008) | doi:10. … more →

Tags: academic, Life, Journal, language, Linguistics, names

كلمة من الملكة رانيا

Michael wrote 1 year ago: You have the chance to learn about another people, take it. (Hat tip to Dr. David Parry who cit … more →

Tags: Culture, middle east, YouTube, العربية

Why I won't be buying a MacBook Air

Michael wrote 1 year ago: Don’t misunderstand me. I do want one, rather badly in fact. I covet the new MacBook Air. But … more →

Tags: Gadgetry

The Machine is Us/ing Us3 comments

Michael wrote 2 years ago: Michael Wesch, assistant professor of cultural anthropology at Kansas State University has created a … more →

Tags: Thinking Tools, development

Indexed2 comments

Michael wrote 2 years ago: I rarely make another blog the focus of a post, but I think this one is deserving. Ms Jessica Hagy r … more →

Gruber’s Right: Snap Preview Is Stupid « Graceful Flavor1 comment

Michael wrote 2 years ago: Jeff Ventura makes a good, solid case against the Snap Preview in Snap Preview Is Stupid « Graceful … more →

i ruined a date between π and e3 comments

Michael wrote 2 years ago: I hope someone other than myself finds this funny. N.B. if you don’t… …find … more →

On internet knowledge4 comments

Michael wrote 2 years ago: I have been pondering the virtues and vices of the famous online user-directed Wikipedia. We have a … more →

Tags: academic, Thinking Tools


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