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A Moment to Remember the Victims of Japan’s Earthquake and Tsunami on 11 March 2011

14 March 2011

“The Great Wave at Kanagawa” by Hokusai.
I’d like to take a moment to remember the victims of the earthquake and tsunami that occurred in Japan on 11 March 2011.
[Pause.]
If you would like to help the victims of this disaster, or find out more about it, Google has created this page of resources related to the [...]

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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Thanksgiving

22 November 2010
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I’m going to take this week off, but I wanted to leave you with some “food for thought” this holiday week. The infographic contains some modern Thanksgiving factoids. I hope you enjoy these two videos on Thanksgiving; the first is from the Native American point of view, and the second is about the first Thanksgiving [...]

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Oxford Launches Research Data Management Website

16 November 2010
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The following announcement was posted to the Research Data Management listserv on 14 November 2010 via S. Hodson. I thought it might be on interest to some of you.

The University of Oxford has recently launched a new Research Data Management Website: www.admin.ox.ac.uk/rdm
The development of this resource was ‘a close collaboration between Research Services, Computing [...]

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Please Vote!

2 November 2010
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This is just a friendly reminder to please vote today. Whatever your party affiliation, if you are a U.S. Citizen, please take the time to vote today. I believe it is our civic duty to vote. If you need help deciding on the issues, Mashable has links to 17 Web Resources to Help You Decide [...]

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Technical Difficulties Solved

28 January 2010

(Ignore this if you don’t like web geeking.)
I couldn’t work on this between 2:30 PM and 5:30 PM today, but I had determined the problem with the permalinks was the .htaccess file. One of the caching programs I had used and then uninstalled had overwritten the .htaccess file, so even though I had deleted out [...]

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Currently Having Technical Difficulties

28 January 2010

For reasons I don’t understand, the permalinks that worked perfectly fine early today and since I first created this blog, are not working and give users a 404 message. I am investigating and troubleshooting.

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The Holiday Season Has Ended…

5 January 2010
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The holiday season has ended, and after a nice long mental break I will again endeavor to make sense of all of these articles about data, data management, and data preservation.
I hope all of you had a peaceful holiday season and/or winter break.

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