List of all blog posts

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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
My Code4Lib 2010 t-shirt (21 December 2009)
dchud and nunanishi (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)
O'Canada (07 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)
gnome-terminal (09 December 2008)
Eee (01 December 2008)
OpenFRBR relaunch (29 September 2008)
FRBR and the History of Cataloguing (21 April 2008)
Preach it (08 August 2007)
IA Channel podcast on faceted classification (15 February 2007)
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)
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)