William Denton (wdenton)

William Denton

Fella on the train in to town for the #splurge hackfest tomorrow is hacking on circ data already. The signs are auspicious!

William Denton

Dickens bicentennial mashups: "That night on the marge with Madame Defarge / When we guillotined Sam McGee" #robertservice

William Denton

Odd coincidence that Isaac Newton, Isaac Asimov and Isaac Thermodynamics all came up with three laws.

William Denton

All three examples for "whither" at http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/whither are wrong (two withers, one whether)

William Denton

Getting caught up on #codeyear (started late). Wish there was a way to do it offline, stored locally, but so far so good.

William Denton

The library chapter of the York University Faculty Association (our union) has a blog now: http://ur1.ca/81svp

William Denton

Delighted that my paper "On Dentographs, A New Method of Visualizing Library Collections" is in the #Code4Lib Journal http://ur1.ca/7zwop

William Denton

I'm repeating myself, but librarians thinking on the future and information literacy need to read Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge #oculsummit

William Denton

Remove all passwords from course web sites, says @copystar, and open them up to everyone anywhere. #oculsummit #ocw @copystar++

William Denton

I installed #Rockbox on my MP3 player (Sansa Clip+): FLOSS firmware with more features and control. Nice. www.rockbox.org

William Denton

Idea: Cutter in hexadecimal. #cataloguing #deadbeef

William Denton

Trying out #Tor (http://ur1.ca/uq8l)

William Denton

Much interesting talk last night about "The Library as 'Stuck Place': Critical Pedagogy in the Corporate University" in http://ur1.ca/7xrq1

William Denton

Found two things left on my desk: a short roll of wide red ribbon, and a half-used roll of toilet paper. Hmm. Hmm.

William Denton

Is it cool to use CVS, or is that passe as a version control system? If you saw a project managed with CVS, what would you think?

William Denton

"You can't make a mark on history unless first you make a mark on a page."

William Denton

Mamet and Costello, a short skit (http://ur1.ca/7pkw3)

William Denton

First #refdesk question about "history" that I'd lived through, in this case Mulroney and free trade. Will only happen more and more.

William Denton

Anyone doing Downton Abbey/The Wire crossovers? "I got the shotgun, you got the entail. It's all in the game."

William Denton

Is there an open #rdf #sparql thing where I can paste in a small data set and run some queries against it?