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This past week saw the passing of three of my heroes. My memories of each are very different. Each was important to me for different reasons. But they were all significant figures in my life, and especially during my youth. So I just have to share some of my own personal [...]

I enjoy taking panoramic photos from time to time. They are especially useful for capturing wide angle images that are difficult to view in a traditional photo. I’ve also experimented with various methods for presenting panoramic photos, including QuickTime VR, which is an excellent tool for navigating panoramas.
Another excellent piece of panoramic photography software [...]

Recently at the RECAP conference at West Chester University, a colleague mentioned that I hadn’t updated my blog in awhile.  That’s true, but to be fair, I was having some technical difficulties…
My hosting provider (ixwebhosting) had moved to a new server farm in April, so I needed to migrate content to the new system. My [...]

I spent a few minutes at this website recently, www.freerice.com, that seems like an intriguing way to help fight hunger.  Essentially, the site presents a vocabulary test which rewards each correct answer with a donation of 20 grains of rice to the UN World Food Program.  The cost of the donation is underwritten by the [...]

Tonight I had the pleasure of dining at the Mongolian Barbecue in Overland Park, Kansas.  This was my first time eating at this restaurant, which offers a rather novel concept of “make your own” stir-fry.  Patrons select the items they wish to include in their dish from a bountiful buffet of meats, veggies and sauces.  [...]

So I was in a BestBuy store yesterday when one of the clerks there said “you are a dead ringer for a celebrity, but I just can’t figure out who it is.”  He suggested I go to one of the various celebrity look alike sites on the net and find out who is my “celebrity [...]

This semester I’m officially on sabbatical leave from my faculty position at West Chester University. I’m supposed to be spending my time working on my sabbatical project, and that’s what I’ve been doing…at least part of the time. But during the first two weeks of this semester, I’ve found myself responding to a [...]

Today Thomson ISI ResearchSoft released EndNote X1 for the Mac.  EndNote is a bibliography program that is used by many scholars to format citations, search online databases and manage reference libraries.  The Windows version of EndNote X1 was released in June.
I’ve been using EndNote since the very first version was developed by Richard Niles at [...]