History, it happens every yesterday.
A place to place my thoughts about things I encounter in the field of history (because I'm completing my PhD), things about technology (because that's my employ and a hobby), and things about the Web (because it's cool).
I want to show how history is integral to our understanding of all things in life, especially technology. "History, it happens every yesterday." © 2007 Ammon Shepherd
I spent way too long looking for MediaWiki’s version information. Most applications store the version info in a file or in the database. MediaWiki is a HUGE mess of code and database. I finally found it in a file. It’s in includes/DefaultSettings.php and is stored as a variable - wgVersion. This is for post 1.3.7 [...]
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This week is much more historical…
Goodies #1: Traveler IQ Challenge - Test your knowledge of geography as it is today not 100 years ago (there’s the history tie-in). I’m not so good. I can’t get past the 6 level…
Goodies #2: New York Divided - This one is all about history. It’s even from the [...]
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I almost forgot for this week, but found some stuff today, so here goes….
And a small disclaimer, or explanation first. Instead of just making this a list of cool stuff out there, I’m going to try to tie it into the field of history or academia. That will get me to think a bit [...]
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So, here it is. The second week of TTGG. I found a bunch of things this week. Enjoy!
Goodies #1: There’s a lot of hype lately about Twitter. Don’t understand it? Here’s a video that explains it in plain English. [Google Video] It still seems a little tooooo much for me. I don’t [...]
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I think I’ll try and start a weekly tips, tricks, gadgets and goodies post. It will cover the neat-o things in the tech world that I come across during the week that don’t have a whole lot to do with history, but are fun nay-the-less.
Tip #1: Custom Leopard stacks and drawer images
Tutorial for customizing [...]
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