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August 2015

Is there a neat, perhaps humorous, term for when something's name is descriptively literal? "Steep Hill" in Lincoln, for example.

Spent a long time thinking that the phrase "no filter" on social media meant the speaker had an over-sharing problem. Logorrhea for photos.

Just reading for interest. I read the frame-independence stuff, but why couldn't A's & B's independent responses be determined?

Multi-hundred-author papers are only a problem if using publications as accreditation. But also a symptom of that system. @timeshighered

Following last tweet, 2015 tech. marvellousness (& astonishment): upgraded Linux distro on two machines and an hour later they're both fine.

2015 technology ridiculousness: it takes me far longer to put a 1.5gb Linux ISO onto a USB stick than it did to download it.

Yes yes, before anyone else says it, I missed the fact that was an old case and that there's great irony in mis-dating it!

That "defining derivatives" piece by @klsmith4906 is important. Hasn't swayed me from BY-SA b/c NC might cause problems for universities.

Does anyone have any suggestions for defending against a /distributed/ brute-force Wordpress attack? Fail2ban no good.

An interesting day today. I'm writing documents for the first @openlibhums Library and Academic Board vote for new journals to join in Jan.

Today's #FF shout-out goes to @ajrbyers who is @ubiquitypress's tech warrior. He's put up with many many emails on the road to @openlibhums!

My schedule of OA-week talks looks to be filling up nicely: North Carolina, Kansas, Goldsmiths, Brunel, UCL and Groningen.

Was also pondering where HE budget will be cut under grim modelling scenarios. Suspect QR/REF will survive b/c it's v efficient vs RCs.

Urgh. Day was going fine but this afternoon felt very poorly and have now retreated to bed. Maybe I'll finish The Luminaries at last.

Urgh. @EmeraldGlobal your proofing system is awful. I had to boot a separate OS, install over 100mb of software & change my browser settings

I'll just say what a pleasure it is working on OLH with @samoore_ at @ubiquitypress. A true professional and great guy. #FF

There's an exemption list for stemming, histograms and line graphs of raw frequency per 5k words & @clured's original kernel density stuff.

This is basically a wrapper for the intermediate steps in @clured's TextPlot that were removed from that tool. I also added some stuff...