When a new Ubuntu release comes out,I tend to just push the button and install it as an upgrade. Almost every time this nearly works, and therefore almost every time I find myself fiddling around for longer than strictly necessary. … Continue reading
An interesting day at La Villette
On Thursday evening about 8 pm I succeeded (not without some effort) in persuading the rather tentative (but free) wifi of the Hotel Crimée to let me receive my email at the start of this week’s brief expedition to Paris. … Continue reading
Xaira under a new Hat
To set up Xaira on any machine, I normally proceed as follows: Get the source from http://xaira.sf.net and unpack it Run configure, adding required packages till it stops wingeing. Run the Makefile On this particular one, the BL’s server running … Continue reading
A text encoding experiment – update
“Let’s sit back and see what happens….” did I say? Within hours of my announcing my previous posting about a text encoding experiment to the organizers of same, I received plaintive emails requesting me to desist. Apparently it had not … Continue reading
A text encoding experiment
A few weeks ago I received an email from the TEI List inviting me (and any of that excellent list’s other hundreds of markup nuts) to participate in some kind of a markup challenge. We were invited to look at … Continue reading
Le bloggingue
At the CLEO Summer School in Marseille, I’m trying to concentrate on the presentation about “le blogging scientifique”, but being distracted by the same summer school’s twitter feed. (On which someone has just posted a link to his useful summary … Continue reading
Let’s chat, genetically
[Tue Aug 25 2009 15:18:11] Elena: hi Lou [Tue Aug 25 2009 15:18:34] lou burnard: That is one very scarey icon you have there [Tue Aug 25 2009 15:18:56] Elena: [Tue Aug 25 2009 15:18:56] … I am terribly scary! … Continue reading