Boxing up
In 36 years you accumulate a lot of paper even if yr schtick is supposed to be all about digitization, etexts, etc. You still accumulate reports and articles and minutes and logs and off prints and publicity glossies and lists, … Continue reading
Three dozen years at OUCS — vol three: 1996-2010
Somewhere around 1995, about the time that Harold Short and I were busy designing the ill-fated UK Arts and Humanities Data Service, I made the transition into management. It’s a bit of a blur now, but I think someone must … Continue reading
Three dozen years at OUCS – vol two: 1986-1995
This decade began as the age of the BBC micro, the Amstrad Word Processor, and the Computers in Teaching Initiative. At OUCS, the ICL 1906A had been switched off in 1981 and replaced by an unloved but bright orange 2900 … Continue reading
Three dozen years at OUCS — vol one
I first joined OUCS as a data centre operator in the autumn of 1973. Newly returned with wife and baby from Malawi, I needed the money and OUCS wanted someone to look after its new “remote job entry” facility — … Continue reading
Toodle-pip
The deal being now more or less wrapped up, it seems appropriate to announce it here first. I’m taking early retirement from OUCS, and moving on after (count them) thirty-six years in academic computing support. When you start thinking more … Continue reading
TEI Prospects and Practice in France
Attached to both the Institut des Sciences d’Homme and the ENS de Lyon, there is in France an interesting project called MuTEC whose role in life (it says here) is to promote and to share expertise and experience in the … Continue reading
Why I was right about Project Gutenberg all along
Just came across this nice, if old, article about the limitations of crowd sourcing: “I do not want the arguments above to suggest that Gracenote is worthless or Project Gutenberg useless. Far from it. Both are immensely useful. Nonetheless, both … Continue reading
What I am doing in Paris, since you ask
Last week I attended a face to face meeting of almost all the staff now working directly on the ADONIS project, a fairly unusual event (I think this was the first one in the current development cycle) since the project … Continue reading
XAIRA meets her Maj
Looking around for an interesting data set to play with (for the TEI Demonstrator project inter alia) the other day, I discovered that the British Royal Family’s very own website includes transcripts of every one of the Queen’s Christmas Day … Continue reading
apt-get install hadopi : la loi installée par les geeks – Numerama
This hits so many of my favourite buttons at once it’s hardly likely anyone else will get it. But it still made me chortle. apt-get install hadopi : la loi installée par les geeks – Numerama.