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Category Archives: technology

Google Scholar Settings

Does anyone know how to save Google Scholar settings across sessions?  Every so often I have to remind GS that I want the option of exporting to BibTeX.  Why doesn’t it just save the settings along with the rest of my account information?

Electronic Books

Electronic books have many advantages.  I can read them over the internet through my library’s website.  I can carry dozens of them in my backpack, with negligible effort.  They are cheap or free.
Sometimes though, they just suck.  Today I was trying to read a book through the library’s website, and it required me to install […]

Netflix

I popped a Netflix movie into my DVD player the other day, and I placed the DVD that had previously been in the player in the Netflix sleeve.  The next day, in a rush, I accidentally mailed this DVD back to Netflix.  After calling and explaining this to them, they said that since they also […]

Craigslist Scammers

Why are online scams profitable?  Who is falling for them?  I recently tried to sell a bike on Craigslist, and received this message from kateandy101@gmail.com :

Hello,
I’m interested in getting this item purchased ASAP but Do you still have it available? Also, are you selling for the first time on craigslist or you’ve made a […]

Rotten Fruit

So my iMac that I bought in November of 2007 just died. I was working on the camera ready version of a conference paper, and it just turned off. I tried to turn it back on, and nothing happened. At least it’s still under warranty.
Then, for a few minutes, I could not […]