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I’ve packaged all of OOHanzi for Ubuntu. I’m using Launchpad to host them. Follow the link for information about the sources that must be added to your /etc/apt/sources.list to use my repository. It is also possible to just use the web interface to download all 3 packages individually and install them one [...]

In June of last year, I moved from Dotclear to Wordpress to manage my blog. I have not regretted the move one bit. This morning I quickly took a look at the Dotclear web site and found that Dotclear 2 is still in beta. If I had stayed with Dotclear, I’d still [...]

I’ve gotten word from Karen Lang that she and Paul Groner rated my Buddhism comprehensive exam with an “enthusiastic pass”. (Those exams are not graded with letters: either you pass or you fail.) Yay!
I’m working on my Hinduism comprehensive now.
And then the methodology comprehensive.
And then the dissertation proposal.
And then 9 months of research [...]

Executive Summary: On November 28, 2007, I put in a request through CatalogChoice.org to stop receiving Pier 1’s catalogs. I visited Catalog Choice’s site on January 25th to find that Pier 1 refused my request. In effect, Pier 1 is refusing to collaborate with Catalog Choice. When I complained to Pier 1, the CSR told me that Pier 1 accepts requests to stop receiving their catalog only through the Direct Marketing Association (DMA) or if contacted directly but not through Catalog Choice. In my opinion, this clearly shows that Pier 1 has decided to adopt aggressive practices when it comes to advertising to potential customers.

DRM makes information structures more fragile: they are more likely to be receive less support across diverse computing environments and are more likely to be prematurely obsoleted.

Change Log

Added some code to make things a bit more user friendly when a JRE is not properly installed.
Modified the way web browsers are launched.
Changed the nomenclature of menus and some functions.
General fixes to improve stability in Windows.

Status
This documentation deals with version 0.2 of OOHanzi. This software is very much at the Alpha stage [...]

Version of the documentation: $Id: oohanzi-doc.xml 245 2008-02-06 03:44:41Z ldd $
Status
Everything is at version 0.1 right now. This software is very much at the Alpha stage of its life-cycle. Expect bugs. Expect nonsensical design decisions. Expect quirks.

Chris Anderson, editor at Wired, claims that print publishing does not emit more carbon than web publishing. I find his analysis extremely unconvincing. I am noting here some of the problems with his analysis and also with a Swedish study he claims supports his conclusions.