Author Archives: Robert

Google Translate is actually the Necronomicon!

Posted on June 24, 2014 by Robert

I typed 邪神 (evil god) into Google Translate. Try it and see what it says! That program is just a bunch of junk. What a joke. Wait, that’s funny. It’s typing something by itself!! What IS that?? It’s…it’s… AAAAAAARRGH!!!!

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Xmarks profiles not syncing right

Posted on June 16, 2014 by Robert

A quick note for myself and anyone else who is having headaches with this. Xmarks is a very useful bookmark synchronizing service, but I have had problems with it lately. If you are using the Firefox version of Xmarks, first … Continue reading →

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The Death of Phyllis Li

Posted on February 26, 2014 by Robert

Anecdotes are the opium of popular history. They are the easiest things to add into any historical narrative or description, need few or no connections with the general subject, and are seldom subjected to a hard look by picky reviewers. … Continue reading →

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Spring semester is here!

Posted on February 21, 2014 by Robert

Looking forward to seeing my students, hope everyone had a relaxing vacation and your grades were better than you expected…

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Merry Christmas!

Posted on December 28, 2013 by Robert

And a happy New Year!

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Mechanized Moodle

Posted on December 4, 2013 by Robert

One of the main things I use Perl for is to manage my grading chores on Chi Nan University’s Moodle system. Moodle is a very useful teaching tool, one I’ve been using for over 10 years. So if it’s such … Continue reading →

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Zotero to Endnote: part II

Posted on November 20, 2013 by Robert

As I noted before, I use both Zotero and Endnote to do my bibliography work. For works that I have pdfs of, I keep these in a folder on D: drive. I use the same pdfs for both my Zotero … Continue reading →

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Upgraded

Posted on November 10, 2013 by Robert

Serious problems with my very old and partially scrungled ubuntu server finally forced me to upgrade both server and wordpress. So far so good; the new server is much more stable, and a couple of functions that were broken on … Continue reading →

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perl win32 OLE arcana: 1

Posted on October 23, 2013 by Robert

problems with perl Win32 OLE: error 0X800a03ec Continue reading →

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Moving references from Zotero to Endnote: Part I

Posted on October 21, 2013 by Robert

how to export zotero references with file links, without actually copying the files as well. Continue reading →

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