List of all blog posts

2024

Edward Ardizzone, On the Illustrating of Books (14 November 2024)

Mark Fisher marginalia (31 October 2024)
Books and chapters in Zotero (29 October 2024)
Edward Ardizzone (25 October 2024)
Daniel Messer at DEF CON (21 October 2024)
X is the Y of Z (16 October 2024)
Daphne Oram and Francis Bacon (16 October 2024)
Tree-being-looked-at (10 October 2024)
The Notebook (07 October 2024)
Wodehouse quote (07 October 2024)

Morton Feldman quote (15 September 2024)
Group of Seven podcast (09 September 2024)

There will always be changes (12 August 2024)

HTTP header security tweaks (24 July 2024)
Using Llama 3 for scripting help with curl and long podcast URLs (10 July 2024)
Making the Firefox scrollbar bigger (09 July 2024)

The Fall of the Sparrow (30 June 2024)
QR codes in Filofax inserts (26 June 2024)
GrapheneOS (24 June 2024)

Verified (22 May 2024)
Bonnie Clearwater quote (10 May 2024)
J;ajsdf;ajdf;sjdaf;kjsdaf;kj af;sd jksd;f jsda;jlf sda;f s;adfj sda;jf dsa;fjj dsaj;f as;jf sadf (10 May 2024)
STAPLR on hiatus (02 May 2024)

Illustration profile of Kady MacDonald Denton (17 April 2024)
BBC Radio 6 Music (15 April 2024)
The Science Teacher (11 April 2024)
Upgrading my Tor bridges (11 April 2024)
How I set up a Tor bridge (07 April 2024)
The Testimony of Patience Kershaw (07 April 2024)
More fictional footnotes (02 April 2024)

Thirty years (15 March 2024)
Canadaland testimonial (09 March 2024)

Molly White, Become a Wikipedian in 30 Minutes (29 February 2024)
Silence is so accurate (15 February 2024)
Mystery fictional footnotes added (08 February 2024)

Raymond Briggs (30 January 2024)
Basic citations in Org (Part 5) (22 January 2024)
Basic citations in Org (Part 4) (17 January 2024)
Basic citations in Org (Part 3) (15 January 2024)
Nice-Looking Printed LibraryThing Catalogue updated (12 January 2024)
Basic citations in Org (Part 2) (10 January 2024)
Specifying dates (09 January 2024)
Basic citations in Org (Part 1) (08 January 2024)
Billy and Rose: Forever Friends (02 January 2024)

2023

Thank you for sharing your thoughts (31 December 2023)
Cirrus Hosting outage ends on third day (22 December 2023)
Don't use Cirrus Hosting (20 December 2023)
Duchamp, Cage, Moschen (12 December 2023)
Marina Abramović's first art lesson (10 December 2023)
A quick look at Retraction Watch data (09 December 2023)
LaTeX template for continuing appointment and tenure files (04 December 2023)

Exporting Org source code blocks to LaTeX with minted (22 November 2023)
Making nmap work after installing with snap (21 November 2023)
York centralizes control over social media presences (16 November 2023)
fd (05 November 2023)

Hiltons (24 October 2023)
The Deluge (14 October 2023)

Elisabeth Russell Taylor (26 September 2023)
Anthony Powell on getting older (14 September 2023)
Mick Herron on getting older (14 September 2023)
Forbidden (05 September 2023)

Fulsome (29 August 2023)
The Thirteenth Sound (28 August 2023)
More on Donna Summer and the Dance (15 August 2023)
Keeler News news (01 August 2023)

xkcd dates (09 July 2023)

The New and Complete Life (16 June 2023)
Lev Manovich quote (11 June 2023)

Moonrise and moonset (14 May 2023)
Dr. JoÙson (05 May 2023)
Going Zero (02 May 2023)
Listening to Art volume 12 complete (01 May 2023)

Unforgotten Wikipedia (29 April 2023)
Lee Mack on WILTY (15 April 2023)
John Steinbeck's advice to Fred Allen (11 April 2023)

Voice of Fire (29 March 2023)
Boléro copyright bollocks (24 March 2023)
Chips Channon on shelving (22 March 2023)
Brooker on the Group (12 March 2023)
Ned Beauman and the books in his life (07 March 2023)
Digital Engagement Librarian position at York University Libraries (06 March 2023)

Its McDonald & Dodds (24 February 2023)
Commands I use (21 February 2023)
Emacs and Vigour (12 February 2023)
Terry Pratchett biographies (03 February 2023)

Dirty Money (29 January 2023)
Firebreak (24 January 2023)
Scholarly Communications and Metrics Librarian posting extended (24 January 2023)
Robin Sloan fiddling (09 January 2023)
Ruby 3.2 problem with Jekyll (02 January 2023)

2022

Scholarly Communications and Metrics Librarian position at York University (13 December 2022)

Overheard (13 November 2022)
Dinosaurs and humans (12 November 2022)
Quirks and Quarks (01 November 2022)

Libraries in Bottom Liner Blues (19 October 2022)
Billy and Rose: Forever Friends (18 October 2022)
Bureaucrats (17 October 2022)
Similar practice described in Powell and Constantine (02 October 2022)

Mario Balzic and libraries, from The Blank Page (14 September 2022)
Pobox (14 September 2022)

NFT = G☺d / Jesus Guggenheim (09 August 2022)
Retraction Watch Database entry (04 August 2022)

Yellow Car again again (11 June 2022)
Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone (06 June 2022)
Hammett (03 June 2022)
Article retraction (02 June 2022)
Gores, Hammett and Keeler (02 June 2022)

Mary John's Coffee Shop (07 March 2022)

Yellow Car again (25 February 2022)
Alfred Stieglitz hurts his finger and goes to emergency (21 February 2022)
Aggressor (21 February 2022)
Pi-hole reinstall (12 February 2022)
Yellow Car (10 February 2022)
Sherlock Holmes movie stills (02 February 2022)

LaTeX letters in Org (28 January 2022)
The House of Fear (25 January 2022)
The Pearl of Death (24 January 2022)
Miles Mander (23 January 2022)
The first sixteen Parkers (16 January 2022)
Date (12 January 2022)
First lines to Alan Grofield books (10 January 2022)
Disabling the Zoom miniwindow (07 January 2022)

2021

Wymerpaugh (30 December 2021)
KeePassXC (17 December 2021)
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer on the Art and Obsolescence podcast (15 December 2021)
framework intro (06 December 2021)
Guerrilla Audio 153 (03 December 2021)

Listening to Art Volumes 3–4 in print (30 November 2021)
Indigenous teaching and learning librarian position at York University Libraries (30 November 2021)
Listening to Art 10.01 (14 November 2021)
Chips Channon's diaries (12 November 2021)
Overheard: Joan Didion (11 November 2021)

Jerry Lewis Live on the Champs Elysees (25 October 2021)
Might as well be Canadian (08 October 2021)
Stony Lake Sounds (01 October 2021)

Bill Arney dead (30 September 2021)
Overheard: The next thing (28 September 2021)
Custom GNOME launchers (26 September 2021)
World of Wonders (24 September 2021)
Anchovies (23 September 2021)
May I Borrow a Stapler? (22 September 2021)
Nous (21 September 2021)
First gig (20 September 2021)

PIs and libraries (27 July 2021)
Teambuilding in the Time of Covid-19: A Zoom Play (27 July 2021)
Remember him? Well, he died (17 July 2021)
Media collections librarian job open at York University (07 July 2021)
Some Nero Wolfe links (06 July 2021)
Second vaccination shot (05 July 2021)

Julian Opie soundtracking his shows (23 June 2021)
Double-grepping to solve a crossword puzzle (23 June 2021)
Analyzing the structure of John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme, Series 9 (17 June 2021)
Galleries index on Listening to Art (01 June 2021)

Pretty symbols in Ruby in Emacs (29 May 2021)
John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme (28 May 2021)
YFile feature on Tim Knight (20 May 2021)
First vaccination shot (16 May 2021)
Private investigator (15 May 2021)
Framework 756 (10 May 2021)
LACUNY talk on Turning Data Into Art (07 May 2021)
Listening to Art volume 8 complete (01 May 2021)

Framework 750 (31 March 2021)
Compose key (31 March 2021)
CBC Radio's Nero Wolfe series (27 March 2021)
RMS back at the FSF (24 March 2021)
Best radio comedies (16 March 2021)
GNU Terry Prachett (12 March 2021)
James Atlee Phillips (10 March 2021)
Sonic Pi Vexations (04 March 2021)

Vexation After Vexation (23 February 2021)
Take Note (20 February 2021)
The Money Harvest (17 February 2021)
Clean Sweep (16 February 2021)
Doctor Thorne (13 February 2021)
What is my user agent? (11 February 2021)

Sweet Treat (27 January 2021)
Jackpot (27 January 2021)
Miriam Lahrsow's data set of self-annotated literary works (26 January 2021)
Book Returns (26 January 2021)
YFile interview (26 January 2021)
Veronica does some research (26 January 2021)
Fundraising for new library wing (22 January 2021)
Library and librarian at Greendale High (21 January 2021)
Terry Pratchett biography (21 January 2021)
More Nero Wolfe (18 January 2021)

2020

Spade and Archive (24 November 2020)
Desert Island Discworld (13 November 2020)
The Nero Wolfe Cookbook (03 November 2020)

David Partridge in the Daily Telegraph (27 October 2020)
Hawkwind and Rush (26 October 2020)
The House on the Borderland (23 October 2020)
David Partridge photograph (15 October 2020)

Charting date ranges in R (30 September 2020)
Dr. Canadiana (25 September 2020)
25 Minutes of Silence (25 September 2020)
Listening to Art ad (02 September 2020)

Donna Summer and the Dance (31 August 2020)
Terry Pratchett on shades of grey (25 August 2020)
Tuesday, March 178th, 2020 (25 August 2020)
Firefox and Emacs again (25 August 2020)
TekSavvy (24 August 2020)
Mask Up (24 August 2020)
Fictional Dentons (11 August 2020)

CATR Theatre Science (29 July 2020)
Ron Graham (13 July 2020)
Clover Roads Organic Farm (10 July 2020)
Another Jekyll CO₂ update (06 July 2020)
Jekyll CO₂ updates (02 July 2020)
A decade of CPPCAPLA (02 July 2020)

less is more with a better .lessfilter (24 June 2020)
No more tracking (23 June 2020)
Freedom of information request for York University eresource costs completed (08 June 2020)
LibGuides (03 June 2020)
Combining multiple GPX tracks into one file (02 June 2020)

A Visitor for Bear read by Donnie Yen (31 May 2020)
Emacs refactoring (28 May 2020)
Backups and encrypting disks in Linux (24 May 2020)
Monforte Dairy (18 May 2020)
Humans and dinosaurs (16 May 2020)
No more FLAC on Listening to Art (14 May 2020)
Recamán's Sequence (12 May 2020)
Ripping DVDs with ffmpeg (12 May 2020)
Kawartha Land Trust Stony Lake Trails in OpenStreetMap (09 May 2020)
Whip Radio update (06 May 2020)
Motherdough (02 May 2020)
Field recordings are sonic readymades (02 May 2020)
Niagara Falls (01 May 2020)

More Alchemy Pickle (25 April 2020)
Book City book drop (24 April 2020)
Listen Up (20 April 2020)
Alchemy Pickle Company (18 April 2020)
John Conway (12 April 2020)
Clover Roads Organic Farm (10 April 2020)
Updating OpenStreetMap on my daily walks (08 April 2020)
Feeder (06 April 2020)
ChocoSol (04 April 2020)
Interac autodeposit (01 April 2020)

Hand-washing (22 March 2020)
Stoicism and COVID-19 (18 March 2020)
Now let's listen (17 March 2020)
The libraries are closed (17 March 2020)
York University Libraries Ambiences (16 March 2020)
Judge Frank Denton and the Brown's drug store case (16 March 2020)
The libraries remain open (15 March 2020)
James Brown on mistakes (12 March 2020)
William Gibson (05 March 2020)
Fungi Town (05 March 2020)

RMS (24 February 2020)
Theatre Science (20 February 2020)
In C (17 February 2020)
Archives and tripods (07 February 2020)
Theatre Science (06 February 2020)

Currently inked (29 January 2020)
ALC Dentograph 1 (21 January 2020)
Harry Stephen Keeler on looking at art (19 January 2020)
Rdio four years ago is still better than Tidal now (17 January 2020)
Children of Men (09 January 2020)
Sixteen years of Filofax (04 January 2020)
Shredder (04 January 2020)

2019

Sellers and Newel (27 December 2019)
Completing zeroes and dates in R charts (16 December 2019)
Jell-O (14 December 2019)
Duchamp's Fountain still very relevant (14 December 2019)
Mean old librarian in Archie (13 December 2019)
LARGinalia (11 December 2019)
Associate dean job open at York University (05 December 2019)
Veronica declines to go to the library (01 December 2019)

Wodehouse on Stout (28 November 2019)
Archie casts a spell (23 November 2019)
Elaine the assistant librarian (22 November 2019)
Currently inked (21 November 2019)
framework part 2 (04 November 2019)
Tin trunk (02 November 2019)

Sheaffer Snorkel Admiral (29 October 2019)
Further to the last post (28 October 2019)
Navigating the Reorganization (26 October 2019)
framework (21 October 2019)
Posting (15 October 2019)
Cabin Pressure (11 October 2019)
Pi-hole (02 October 2019)

In the Garden of the Delacroix Museum (29 September 2019)
STAPLR is back up (29 September 2019)
Betty smells the moldy library (29 September 2019)
Riverdale Public Library librarian: Miss Dewey (28 September 2019)
STAPLR is down (18 September 2019)

Riverdale Public Library librarian: Ms Hoskins (05 July 2019)
Riverdale High librarian seen (05 July 2019)
Mount an Android phone on Linux/Unix with sshfs (05 July 2019)
Josie and the Pussycats filmed in a library (04 July 2019)
Archie finds a lost library book (04 July 2019)
Radio Aporee Maps (04 July 2019)

Tasker problem on Android: alarm on lock screen when no alarm is set (28 June 2019)
Honey (27 June 2019)
Whip Radio (20 June 2019)
Delacroix and Marcus (10 June 2019)
Ethel in the library (07 June 2019)
Time-travelling Jughead in the library (06 June 2019)
Mapping Acid Mothers Temple tours (06 June 2019)
Forest 404 (04 June 2019)

Mapping the Indian Residential School Locations Dataset (30 May 2019)
Mr Lodge's library (28 May 2019)
Room X (27 May 2019)
Art conservation by Michaela Bosworth (24 May 2019)
Minimum CO₂ per month at Mauna Loa (21 May 2019)
415 ppm (16 May 2019)
What Are You Doing, Benny? (07 May 2019)
Library eresource vendor policies (01 May 2019)

Widmerpool and the Canadian Privy Council Office (26 April 2019)
Getting my Raspberry Pi on a PEAP-MSCHAPv2 wifi network (24 April 2019)
Charles Dickens in Bonanza (04 April 2019)
Slow Art Day (02 April 2019)

Not cool (16 March 2019)
Freedom of information appeal for York University eresource costs successful (14 March 2019)
Phasers on Satie (12 March 2019)
Restored Esterbrook (10 March 2019)

Simultaneous Shakespearean sonnets (23 February 2019)
My Pen Addict question (17 February 2019)
Betty pops into the library (13 February 2019)
Archie returns books to the library (12 February 2019)
Self-hosting Libre Baskerville web font (12 February 2019)
Framework Radio (11 February 2019)
Wanted: Media archivist at York (07 February 2019)
How to Burn a Million Quid (05 February 2019)
The Wobblies on STAPLR (04 February 2019)

Betty in The Collector (30 January 2019)
Betty in the library (30 January 2019)
Unethical librarian in Archie (29 January 2019)
Fungi Town (27 January 2019)
Currently inked (27 January 2019)
Radio Ecoshock (19 January 2019)
Listening to Art in print (13 January 2019)
Pliny the Younger and email (12 January 2019)
Homes and haunts (09 January 2019)
TPL bookplate (07 January 2019)
Bargaining Parity for Librarians and Archivists (04 January 2019)
David Cannadine on Churchill and art (02 January 2019)

2018

Listening to Art now has an ISSN (11 December 2018)
Archie starts a bookmobile in Book Worm (05 December 2018)
Archie library mention in That Human Touch (05 December 2018)
2018-12-01 co2 (02 December 2018)

Archie hippies get better library facilities (17 November 2018)

Parker Duofold Junior (28 October 2018)
Text figures (18 October 2018)
Wikipedia eyes (14 October 2018)

I dropped my FIPPA appeal over York chair-to-chair letter (26 September 2018)
Fulsome (17 September 2018)
Listening to Art 03.09 (13 September 2018)
Mr. Weatherbee in "Getting His Goat" (10 September 2018)
Archie in Prize Problem (06 September 2018)
Humphries on Powell (06 September 2018)
Archie in "Ace Place" (04 September 2018)

STAPLR unjammed (30 August 2018)
STAPLR jammed (28 August 2018)
Freedom of information request for York University eresource costs denied (22 August 2018)
Inspirational quote (03 August 2018)

CUPE 3903 strike over (25 July 2018)
Joan Bodger (24 July 2018)
MYSTERY HUG (20 July 2018)
Galactic Pot-Healer (18 July 2018)
Interviewing at York University Libraries (16 July 2018)
Betty is entering the library's literary contest (15 July 2018)
Listening to Art 03.05 (15 July 2018)
Betty goes to the library in "A Tale of Two Papers" (14 July 2018)
Two more Archie library stories (14 July 2018)
Phone 404 (11 July 2018)
Ubuntu upgrade to 18.04 (06 July 2018)

Ice out on Stony Lake (22 June 2018)
Massimo Pigliucci Stoic Meditations (19 June 2018)
CBC web tracking (18 June 2018)
Graeber's Bullshit Jobs (14 June 2018)
Now Wait for Last Year (14 June 2018)

Letters from the chair of the Board of Governors to the chair of Senate (19 May 2018)
Listening to Art, Volume 3 (15 May 2018)
Quaker Meeting for Worship recording (06 May 2018)
BOG no (01 May 2018)

Archie library story: The Big Exam! (30 April 2018)
Foolproof (25 April 2018)
Robert Hughes on Seneca (23 April 2018)
Fungi Town episode on lichen (22 April 2018)
Ursula K. Le Guin on H.P. Lovecraft (21 April 2018)
6/π² (12 April 2018)
Sorting LCC call numbers in R (10 April 2018)
Let's Encrypt (04 April 2018)

Two stories about Betty at the library (25 March 2018)
Easy Reader (19 March 2018)
Play It Again (15 March 2018)
Research data management librarian job posting at York University (14 March 2018)
You Are (14 March 2018)
CUPE 3903 strike (06 March 2018)
Ordering Things (05 March 2018)
Riverdale High School library in "Nerd Word" (04 March 2018)
Listening to Art 02.08 (01 March 2018)

Guards! Guards! (28 February 2018)
Two library mentions in Archie Jumbo Comics 285 (24 February 2018)
Columns that are too wide in R ggplot2 charts (22 February 2018)
Sabrina library (17 February 2018)
Yesterday's Slow Scholarship Reading Group article (09 February 2018)
Library meta-Archie (07 February 2018)

Book Look (26 January 2018)
Three times In Advance of the Broken Arm (22 January 2018)
Greendale public library (21 January 2018)
Bruce Dickinson on Christmas University Challenge (14 January 2018)
Dilton smells a book in the library (13 January 2018)
Hiram in the library (04 January 2018)
Jughead in the library (03 January 2018)

2017

A mysterious event earlier today (26 November 2017)
Org clocktables II: Summarizing a month (16 November 2017)
COUNTER data made tidy (15 November 2017)
Brooklyn Raga Massive, In C (14 November 2017)
Review of Statistics for Library and Information Services (11 November 2017)
Org clocktables I: The daily structure (06 November 2017)
Mrs Paroo (02 November 2017)

Death metal drummer rescues injured cat during hurricane (28 October 2017)
Dilton goes to the school library (24 October 2017)
Stoicon (18 October 2017)
Two more Archie libraries (05 October 2017)
Information literacy on What's New podcast (03 October 2017)
Laurentian strike (03 October 2017)
Librarian in "The Chompian" (02 October 2017)

Riverdale High Library (30 September 2017)
Chuck Clayton at the ref desk (22 September 2017)
Theodore Roosevelt on "Nude Descending a Staircase" (21 September 2017)
A Christmas for Bear (20 September 2017)
A Mind at Play (08 September 2017)
Denton Declaration (06 September 2017)
Live albums (06 September 2017)
Belly of the Beast kombucha (04 September 2017)
Listening to Art 01.08 (01 September 2017)

Librarians in Archie (29 August 2017)
A remarkable sentence by Dumas (26 August 2017)
Socrates, by Lister Sinclair (22 August 2017)
LineageOS update (21 August 2017)
Presto (20 August 2017)
Delacroix's Journal (20 August 2017)
Advice from Skeleton Island (16 August 2017)
Papers and inks (02 August 2017)

Barnett Newman's Library (12 July 2017)

"Heroes" (29 June 2017)
Listening to Art 01.03 (13 June 2017)
Listening to Art (06 June 2017)
Jamming at Philip Glass's (01 June 2017)

GHG.EARTH at LAAC17 (25 May 2017)
I'm a guest on 25 Minutes of Silence (18 May 2017)
Damn straight (10 May 2017)
25 Best Minutes So Far of 25 Minutes of Silence (10 May 2017)

Tasteful Corn on the Cob (30 April 2017)
412 ppm (28 April 2017)
York U job: head of science library / physical sciences librarian (25 April 2017)
Close to 410 ppm (21 April 2017)
Unconventional Perogies (20 April 2017)
The Frantics (17 April 2017)
Duchamp, librarian (12 April 2017)

Show notes (29 March 2017)
The Next Track (26 March 2017)
Finding the RSS feed for a Soundcloud account (25 March 2017)
Cage (24 March 2017)
LineageOS (21 March 2017)
RSS feed analysis (17 March 2017)
Jughead is hip (15 March 2017)
Per cent signs in crontabs (10 March 2017)
Review: Are Numbers Real? (06 March 2017)
Steve Reich is Calling (05 March 2017)
Yardstick Covers (05 March 2017)
PortaPow (01 March 2017)

Command line column sum (27 February 2017)
Clive James (27 February 2017)
25 Minutes of Silence (23 February 2017)
Doris Lessing's library (21 February 2017)
John Cage's library (15 February 2017)
I deleted everything from Twitter (10 February 2017)
Don't forget Aaron Swartz (09 February 2017)
Gödel Rucker Ajzenstat (07 February 2017)

Worst Little Free Library I've ever seen (26 January 2017)
Notifying the Internet Archive when a new post is published (25 January 2017)
Michele Dougherty on not caring what other people think (22 January 2017)
Politics in the Library (19 January 2017)
Trudeau Major (16 January 2017)
Recent Emacs changes (09 January 2017)
The original ethical data scientists (06 January 2017)
Tidal: no better (04 January 2017)
Hearing Secret Harmonies (02 January 2017)

2016

Gauss and pizza (09 December 2016)
Laptop stickers (02 December 2016)
Emacs in Conforguration (01 December 2016)

846 (30 November 2016)
Ruby in Conforguration (29 November 2016)
Let's Not Talk of Love and (29 November 2016)
Anthropocene librarianship comes in many forms. One is the making of art. (17 November 2016)
Trollope (09 November 2016)

My job description (26 October 2016)
Good (26 October 2016)
Private (14 October 2016)
Rubocop (13 October 2016)
Concurrency (11 October 2016)
Firefox and cookies (06 October 2016)
org-export-babel-evaluate (03 October 2016)

Sunsets (24 September 2016)
Frank Stella quote (24 September 2016)
Academic year (22 September 2016)

We're in the Anthropocene (almost) (29 August 2016)
Lichen and moss news (25 August 2016)
Image display size in Org (25 August 2016)
King Crimson, Queen Elizabeth Theatre, 20 November 2015 (23 August 2016)
Kawartha Sounds (18 August 2016)
Bad-Ass Librarians (16 August 2016)
GHG.EARTH (16 August 2016)
One never likes to be thanked over much for doing anything (11 August 2016)

Books are unconvertible assets (29 July 2016)
Scott Hughes on Data Stories, LIGO sonification (17 July 2016)
Koha on FLOSS Weekly (13 July 2016)
Climate change podcasts (05 July 2016)

Tidy data in Org (30 June 2016)
Collaboration is not causation (27 June 2016)
TPL shills for Google (16 June 2016)

Oscar Levant on Information Please (31 May 2016)
CC-BY (25 May 2016)
Information Please (16 May 2016)
Do not insert non-US foreign coins, damaged coins, bent coins, dirty coins, commemorative coins, tokens, Eisenhower silver dollars or 1943 US pennies (13 May 2016)
Conforguring dotfiles (10 May 2016)
Conforguration (05 May 2016)
Installing R from source (updated) (03 May 2016)

Rosie or Nunslaughter (13 April 2016)

Passing blocks to a thread in Sonic Pi (14 March 2016)

There Wasn't No Party Like the Rdio Party, Then the Rdio Party Stopped (24 February 2016)
The Idealist (23 February 2016)
My 0x10: AC/DC (19 February 2016)
The Triple Staple (12 February 2016)
Cato in fiction (11 February 2016)
STAPLR DisPerSion (02 February 2016)
Sleep (01 February 2016)

STAPLR (11 January 2016)

2015

Diana Athill on reading (04 December 2015)
Westlake and Powell (01 December 2015)

BiblioTech (30 November 2015)
Zotero and Mozilla (24 November 2015)
Anthropocene librarianship (15 November 2015)
Foul, rainy, muddy sloppy morning (12 November 2015)
Moderate Dinginess (10 November 2015)

My Three Rules of Reading (26 October 2015)
Metal librarianship (21 October 2015)
No librarian or archivist should vote Conservative in the Canadian election (16 October 2015)
Book City (15 October 2015)
Geologist and Radical (03 October 2015)

He knew the past, which is sometimes much worse (16 September 2015)
Thinks and Burns (12 September 2015)
Now with schema.org and COinS structured metadata (11 September 2015)
OLITA lending library report on BKON beacon (07 September 2015)
A Catalogue of Cuts (06 September 2015)
Access testimonial (02 September 2015)

MIME type (26 August 2015)
CyanogenMod (25 August 2015)
Music, Code and Data: Hackfest and Happening at Access 2015 (18 August 2015)
Unreasonably, Ridiculously Long (14 August 2015)
Genius at Play (14 August 2015)
Minty fresh (14 August 2015)
Jesus, to his credit (10 August 2015)

Updated Westlake footnote (28 July 2015)

Firefox privacy—updated (24 June 2015)
Installing R from source (23 June 2015)
Barsetshite (23 June 2015)
Linux on POS (15 June 2015)
Spectacles and standards (14 June 2015)
Interest rates and climate change as music (04 June 2015)

Firefox privacy extensions (27 May 2015)
Data meeting (27 May 2015)
Mathematics and sculpture (26 May 2015)

Data and Goliath (31 March 2015)
Click here to scab (23 March 2015)

Disquiet Junto 0163 (14 February 2015)
Measure the Library Freedom (02 February 2015)

Steve Reich phase pieces with Sonic Pi (27 January 2015)
Setting up Sonic Pi on Ubuntu, with Emacs (17 January 2015)
Clapping Music on Sonic Pi (12 January 2015)
NO AD (05 January 2015)
3d printing a Sierpinski tetrix (05 January 2015)
The best paper I read this year: Polster, Reconfiguring the Academic Dance (04 January 2015)
Animated intersecting circles (04 January 2015)
Reading diary in Org (01 January 2015)

2014

CBC appearances (updated) (29 December 2014)
Bakewell West Scales (22 December 2014)
Intersecting circles (19 December 2014)
The sandbar (12 December 2014)

Escape Meta Alt from Word (23 October 2014)
Prettifying R in Emacs (17 October 2014)
CO₂ sparklines (17 October 2014)
Lehman Libraries (14 October 2014)
Michael Collins on The Great Eastern (02 October 2014)

Augustus (08 September 2014)
Moodie's Tale (03 September 2014)
Anonymous August Wikipedia edits from the House of Commons (02 September 2014)

Will Self Q&A (12 August 2014)
YUL Signs (05 August 2014)
Disquiet Library Exit (05 August 2014)
Debt (04 August 2014)
Anonymous July Wikipedia edits from the House of Commons (03 August 2014)
The Great Eastern: Introduction to Library Science (01 August 2014)

Alistair MacLean (23 July 2014)
Anonymous Wikipedia edits from the House of Commons (18 July 2014)
CBC appearances (10 July 2014)

AWE 2014 Thoughts (20 June 2014)
Julian Oliver and Critical Engineeringg (12 June 2014)
RUSTLE (11 June 2014)
Uses Emacs (11 June 2014)
AWE 2014 Glasses (10 June 2014)
AWE 2014 Day Two (09 June 2014)
AWE 2014 Day One (09 June 2014)
CO₂ (08 June 2014)
CBC appearances (07 June 2014)
AWE 2014: Preconference (06 June 2014)
Top Technologies chapter on AR is available (05 June 2014)
HTTPS and HSTS (05 June 2014)
Robert Scoble, Richard Stallman, email and privacy (04 June 2014)

Laertes at AWE 2014 (26 May 2014)
The Top Technologies Every Librarian Should Know (21 May 2014)
Open letter to the Toronto Public Library about Hoopla and privacy (08 May 2014)

Better ways of using R on LibStats (3): Fifteen minutes of research support (30 April 2014)
The Great Eastern (28 April 2014)
YUL annual numbers (25 April 2014)
Better ways of using R on LibStats (2): durations (22 April 2014)
Better ways of using R on LibStats (1) (22 April 2014)
Ubuntu 14.04 and grub (19 April 2014)
The heart of the university (15 April 2014)
Stuff, Standards and Sites (14 April 2014)
Dying Every Day (11 April 2014)
Don't give up your library card number (09 April 2014)

The Norman Conquests (04 March 2014)

Elizabeth Jane Howard (17 February 2014)
Standards uniting AR apps (12 February 2014)

More about Emacs and Jekyll (26 January 2014)
awe.js (24 January 2014)
Geolocation (24 January 2014)
Firefox overtook Emacs (15 January 2014)
Jekyll 2 (13 January 2014)
Jekyll (09 January 2014)

2013

Org and poems (03 October 2013)
Avoirdupois 1.0 (03 October 2013)

The Feynman Lectures (15 September 2013)
Greenhouse Glasses (11 September 2013)
I closed my LinkedIn account (07 September 2013)

Three odd warnings (15 August 2013)
Welcome to the Jungle LibGuide (01 August 2013)

Paul Dutton, sound poetry, Emacs and Tavis Rudd (31 July 2013)
A Modest Proposal for a More Efficient Organizational Decision-Making Effectiveness Structure at York University Libraries (12 July 2013)

Digital Oydyssey talk: On Dentographs (07 June 2013)

Manuscript found in a Pinter play (05 May 2013)

Laertes update (22 April 2013)
My .emacs.d (21 April 2013)
One-year contract position, web librarian/science librarian, at York University in Toronto (16 April 2013)
Digitize and/or Destroy (11 April 2013)

Ethics codes at the Library and Archives Stapler of Canada (19 March 2013)
Death Clowns in Guantanamo Bay (17 March 2013)
Purples (09 March 2013)
Code4Lib 2013 in Layar with Laertes (08 March 2013)
Root window (04 March 2013)
Rogers roaming data charges (03 March 2013)

Seriation and the kayiwa-yo_bj vortex (24 February 2013)
One last #c4l13 tweet thing: who mentioned whom? (22 February 2013)
#c4l13 tweets in R (21 February 2013)

aaronsw (24 January 2013)
I uses this (10 January 2013)

2012

More #accessyul tweet chart hacks (21 October 2012)
#accessyul tweets chart (21 October 2012)
Clapping Music (14 October 2012)
Notes from Bruce Sterling's OARN talk (13 October 2012)

Ross Thomas and the Library of Congress (30 September 2012)
In Fear We Trust 4: LibraryBox (30 September 2012)
In Fear We Trust 3 (30 September 2012)
In Fear We Trust 2 (28 September 2012)
In Fear We Trust 1 (26 September 2012)
Counting and aggregating in R (24 September 2012)
When will Firefox overtake Emacs? (13 September 2012)
Review of The History of the Library in Western Civilization: From Cassiodorus to Furnival: Classical and Christian Letters, Schools and Libraries in the Monasteries and Universities, Western Book Centres (10 September 2012)

Making the Days Old widget (18 August 2012)

My first experiences with a Nexus 7 (16 July 2012)
Compact OED in Augment (11 July 2012)
Knee Play 3 (08 July 2012)

Hope that answers your question (27 June 2012)
Einstein on the Beach (10 June 2012)

MARC magic for file (28 May 2012)
Code4Lib North #c4ln tweets (25 May 2012)
Correcting timestamp on photographs taken on an Acer Android phone (12 May 2012)
Ref desk 5: Fifteen minutes for under one per cent (11 May 2012)
Hat Rack (07 May 2012)

Ref desk 4: Calculating hours of interactions (24 April 2012)
#thatcamp hashtags the Tony Hirst way (21 April 2012)
Ref desk 3: Comparing question.type across branches (20 April 2012)
Ref desk 2: Questions asked per week at a branch (19 April 2012)
Ref Desk 1: LibStats (17 April 2012)

On Dentographs (03 February 2012)

Bill 'n' Bertie (31 January 2012)
Mamet and Costello (24 January 2012)
Last names (13 January 2012)
How I set up a virtual server at VPSVille (12 January 2012)

2011

George Pelecanos, The Cut (10 December 2011)
Managing the draft of a paper as if it were source code (09 December 2011)
Information Literacy Ryan Gosling (06 December 2011)
Code4Lib Ryan Gosling (06 December 2011)

Cheese and sandpaper (19 November 2011)
How much do "web-scale discovery services" for libraries cost? (09 November 2011)
THATCamp GTA 2011 (01 November 2011)

20 git commit messages (09 September 2011)

Scott Phillips, The Adjustment (28 August 2011)

ARL statistics visualized with R and Google Motion Charts (28 July 2011)
Canadian library statistics visualized with R and Google Motion Charts (21 July 2011)
Zen problems (20 July 2011)
Divisiveness, Communication Failure, and Boundary Wars as Tragicomedy (10 July 2011)
Seven Questions Over Breakfast with Kady MacDonald Denton (06 July 2011)

Usability Testing of VuFind at an Academic Library (14 June 2011)
Punk math (09 June 2011)
Footnotes update (08 June 2011)
Code4Lib North 2011 (08 June 2011)

Best Library Conference Talks of the Year 2011, with Steve Buscemi and Kate Winslet (17 May 2011)
R links (05 May 2011)

Jack Layton's face (30 April 2011)
Code4Lib++, or, Why I'm Still Going to McMaster Even Though Jeff Trzeciak Spreads Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt (12 April 2011)
Using R on some ARL statistics (07 April 2011)
An improved graph (03 April 2011)
More about declining circulation at York (01 April 2011)

Digital humanities librarian position at York University Libraries (28 March 2011)
Business librarian position (tenure-track) open at York University (01 March 2011)

News about "How to Make a Faceted Classification and Put It On the Web" (28 February 2011)
Best quote I've read this year (22 February 2011)
How many librarians does it take to change a lightbulb? (05 February 2011)
Nice-Looking Printed LibraryThing Catalogue (02 February 2011)

Initial circs per student (31 January 2011)
Poems to Memorize (18 January 2011)

2010

VuFind usage fives times that of "classic catalogue" (17 December 2010)

Nuit Blanche 2010 (16 November 2010)

After Launching Search and Discovery, Who Is Mission Control? (19 October 2010)
Hackfest project: nlpltc (18 October 2010)
Scott Phillips has a new book: Rut (06 October 2010)

After Launching Search and Discovery, Who Is Mission Control? (20 September 2010)
Review of Implementing FRBR in Libraries, by Zhang and Salaba (16 September 2010)

How I recovered a lost partition (31 August 2010)
overflow: hidden for IE 7 (25 August 2010)

Paired quotes (25 July 2010)
Census data matters (21 July 2010)
Mickey Spillane on computers (14 July 2010)
Upgraded Drupal (07 July 2010)

I uses this (12 May 2010)
Code4Lib North notes (10 May 2010)
Code4Lib North this Thursday and Friday (02 May 2010)

Andrew Kines and I talk about LOTR (04 April 2010)

Make my Glass the P-Glass (18 March 2010)
I pass between the two lions (01 March 2010)
Code4Lib 2010: Wednesday 24 February (01 March 2010)
Code4Lib 2010: Tuesday 23 February (01 March 2010)
Code4Lib 2010: Monday 22 February (01 March 2010)

Meditations 7.61 (27 January 2010)
James Michener on How to Use a Library (24 January 2010)
Code4Lib North (12 January 2010)

2009

My Code4Lib 2010 t-shirt (21 December 2009)
Nancy Williamson Festschrift in CCQ 48: 1 (03 December 2009)
KF Modified (03 December 2009)

Mrs. Abbott (29 November 2009)
My email is not bouncing (27 November 2009)

yaml2json (16 October 2009)
York University Open Access Policy for Librarians and Archivists (13 October 2009)
Access 2009, Saturday #3: Gwendolyn MacNairn, Zotero: A Better Way to Go? (11 October 2009)
Access 2009, Saturday #4: William J. Turkel, Hacking as a Way of Knowing (11 October 2009)
Access 2009, Saturday #2: Cathy Nelson Hartman and Mark Phillips: The Portal to Texas History (11 October 2009)
Access 2009, Friday #6: Roy Tennant, Inspecting the Elephant: Characterizing the Hathi Trust Collection (11 October 2009)
Access 2009, Friday #5: Dorothea Salo, Grab a Bucket! It's Raining Data! (11 October 2009)
Access 2009, Friday #7: Bess Sadler, Blacklight: Findability for Your Whole Collection (11 October 2009)
Access 2009, Friday #9: Andrew Nagy and Heather Tones White: Mobile Apps (11 October 2009)
Access 2009. Saturday #1: Mark Leggott, Virtual Research Environment: Two Years Later, or, Islandora Takes Shape (11 October 2009)
Access 2009, Friday #8: Jonathan Jiras, The Extensible Catalog (11 October 2009)
Access 2009, Friday lightning talks (11 October 2009)
Access 2009, Thursday #9 - Stevan Harnad, Grasping What is Already Within Immediate Reach: Universal Open Access Mandates (07 October 2009)
Access 2009, Thursday #7-8: Roy Tennant vs Mike Rylander (07 October 2009)
Access 2009, Thursday #5: Dan Chudnov, Repository Development at the Library of Congress (07 October 2009)
Access 2009, Thursday #2: Richard Akerman - Will We Command Our Data? (07 October 2009)
Access 2009, Thursday #1: Cory Doctorow (07 October 2009)
My Hackfest report (02 October 2009)

DIG: Hackfest. (30 September 2009)
How I put Ubuntu Netbook-Remix on my Eee (27 September 2009)
Kosavic, The York Digital Journals Project: Strategies for Institutional Open Journal Systems Implementations (19 September 2009)
convmv solves rsync encoding problem (18 September 2009)
Updated footnote list (14 September 2009)
My cracked Android (02 September 2009)

Survival of the Fistest (30 July 2009)
Kurt Vonnegut to Charles Willeford (21 July 2009)
How I got my Sansa Fuze MP3 player to recharge when the battery was completely drained and nothing happened when I plugged in the USB cable (20 July 2009)
Sit in the W.P. Scott Chair in E-Librarianship (14 July 2009)
Fictional footnotes update (03 July 2009)

Ruskin on cameras (30 June 2009)
Four ways of using Amazon S3 (27 June 2009)
branchhours (23 June 2009)
At Their Fingertips (22 June 2009)

Video of What We Talk About When We Talk About FRBR (22 May 2009)
Stoic podcasts and interviews (15 May 2009)
"It would perhaps increase my acquaintance, the thing which I chiefly study to decline." (03 May 2009)
Footnotes in The Spellman Files (03 May 2009)

isbn2marc is back (28 April 2009)
Code4Lib 2009 notes (22 April 2009)
How I use Emacs for Getting Things Done (21 April 2009)
Backing up multiple MySQL databases when only one [client] section is allowed (01 April 2009)

Converted to Drupal (30 March 2009)

One Big Library talk at OLA (31 January 2009)

2008

gnome-terminal (09 December 2008)
Eee (01 December 2008)

OpenFRBR relaunch (29 September 2008)

FRBR and the History of Cataloguing (21 April 2008)

2007

Preach it (08 August 2007)

IA Channel podcast on faceted classification (15 February 2007)

2006

Library Geeks chat with Dan Chudnov (07 November 2006)
OpenFRBR (01 November 2006)

Lazy Gink's Guide to a Complete Hammett Collection (07 January 2006)

2005

Ranganathan's Monologue on Melvil Dewey (18 December 2005)

The Arts and Letters Club of Toronto (30 October 2005)

The FRBR blog (26 June 2005)
Robertson Davies quote (23 June 2005)