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May 27th, 2006
08:04 am - Buried in the noise
For those who haven't been following Deep Blue: there was a news release from the UofM about public access to U-M research work. My research being in the Open Access area, I have been following the twists and turns of this initiative both at UofM and some other research institutions - and it seems that again the "build it and they will come" fallacy is playing out in most places.
The inherent tension between institution and field typically imply that researchers, especially those that are just starting out (for whom publication in top journals and visibility among peers is a key issue) choose the path that their field takes. If Open Access is acceptable in their field, the next question is - institutional repository or field or journal based repository? I feel that senior researchers, professors and prolific academics, for whom tenure and such things are a given should take the lead and use these OA repositories first, network effects, peer pressure and such things will then reduce the hesitation of the junior folks in doing the same. The OA movement though is slowly but surely moving forward.
Current Location: couch
Current Mood:  relaxed
Current Music: birds chirping
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May 16th, 2006
11:14 am - no frostbite!
I've been following his efforts - glad to see him on top of the world now.
Current Location: couch
Current Mood: busy
Current Music: birds chirping outside
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08:15 am - Dig a hole and come out the other side!
I'm posting after a really long time. Much has transpired in the interim - and is still transpiring... but I deal - Im coming out the other side.
On that note - check out this Another stupid application for Google Maps...
Current Location: Kitchen counter
Current Mood: chipper
Current Music: NPR - morning edition
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April 7th, 2006
07:32 pm - My first meme
Wikipedia Birthday meme - via ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.1) eac
Go to Wikipedia and look up your birth day (excluding the year). List three facts, two births and one death in your journal, including the year.
March 31
Events:
1889 - The Eiffel Tower is inaugurated.
1918 - Daylight Savings Time goes into effect in the United States for the first time.
1998 - Netscape releases the code base of its browser under an open source license agreement; the open source project is given the code name Mozilla, and would eventually be spun off into the non-profit Mozilla Foundation.
Births:
1596 - René Descartes, French mathematician (d. 1650)
1948 - Al Gore, Vice President of the United States
Deaths:
1945 - Anne Frank, German-born diarist (b. 1929)
Current Location: couch
Current Mood:  anxious
Current Music: chitty chitty bang bang
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March 3rd, 2006
12:44 pm - European Digital Library
The project seems very interesting & seems like its proceeding at a fair clip. Check out the responses to the digital libraries consultation while you are there.
Current Mood: refreshed
Current Music: Becker on TBS
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February 25th, 2006
11:06 am - Vintage Google?
I got this image from "rahulair" - thought I'd share it.
Current Mood:  blank
Current Music: What d'ya know? on NPR
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February 8th, 2006
06:51 pm - My early impressions of the US - Part I
I got to talking with someone this afternoon and it came up... when did you first hear about the US of A and how and what formed your early and ongoing impressions of it, and now after living in this country for a while- what do you think about those early impressions... ?
So Im taking a walk down memory lane ... (turns out to be a long walk to get that far back ;)... and there is this process of sifting for memories of my first time... or atleast as close to it as I will get. Of course I expect to take many detours along the way, readers prepare to be alternately bored, intrigued, wowed or just plain confused.
Well let me see... visions of Great Britain come a little earlier, so also Australia and the West Indies - i remember listening to cricket commentaries on the radio, filled with static, sometimes with accents - early in the morning, or at other weird times. But that is not the memory i was looking for - I've gotten the countries wrong. Im looking for the USA.
I think I heard about a cousin (much older) who was at grad school in the US, America they called it. (i must have been 3 or 4). But having never met this cousin then, it remains a very vague empty memory. And then perhaps when i was 4 still, I got a slightly better view of a very small piece of "America" - Chicago. We were learning about Swami Vivekananda and how he went to Chicago to deliver this address about Hinduism at the World Parliament of Religions. I did see where it was on the world map too!
RAMBLE WARNING I remember us having to learn pieces of his speeches to deliver in class.Most of our class couldnt read too well at that time - and some of them lisped as well - so we were given teacher-picked passages to recite. Because I could read long words (i didnt understand them too well, but i could read 'em) and probably because I didn't lisp, I got to learn "by-heart" (from memory)and recite this passage, which I can still remember very well. Imagine a 4 year old saying these hard words - Man it must have been hard. :) But i think I had a lot of coaching on pronunciation and delivery.
Sectarianism, bigotry, and its horrible descendant, fanaticism, have long possessed this beautiful earth. They have filled the earth with violence, drenched it often and often with human blood, destroyed civilization, and sent whole nations to despair. Had it not been for these horrible demons, human society would be far more advanced than it is now. But their time has come; and I fervently hope that the bell that tolled this morning in honor of this convention may be the death-knell of all fanaticism, of all persecutions with the sword or with the pen, and of all uncharitable feelings between persons wending their way to the same goal.
** Now that I think of it, its still as apt today as it was a hundred and 112 years ago. Why don't we grow up? and I don't mean the 4 year olds referred to above. **
Well - what I was getting at was, we got to hear that Chicago was a huge city in "America" and it was where all these important meetings were held - it was populated by beautiful, rich women who were very interested in Eastern philosophy and they were very polite. And that was what I thought "America" was when I was 4.
well,more in the next instalment of impressions of "america". Keep your comments coming.
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04:03 pm - And this now from Verizon
Following this for the past few weeks. What do you think?
http://www.oreillynet.com/etel/blog/2006/02/verizons_thorne_comes_out_punc.html
Current Mood:  aggravated
Current Music: saline public library afternoon quietness
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February 2nd, 2006
07:27 pm - Oh why?
What are you supposed to tell the nurse who cheerily asks you "How are you doing" while she takes you into get your weight and blood pressure. I mean... I've made an urgent appointment with the doctor, she has my chart with the reason for my appointment in her hand and I definitely look doubled over in pain...
I can't believe i said "Oh, Im fine, how're you?" ..Just goes to show the power of reflex.
Current Mood:  sick
Current Music: lovely silence
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January 29th, 2006
11:28 pm - Almost everyone seems to have done this ...
I don't want to be left out of the quad game..
Four jobs I’ve had:
1. car washer/detailer
2. stockmarket technical analyst
3. teaching kids about computers out of a rickety old van
4. stage actress
Four movies I can watch over and over:
1. Anand
2. Anything Wallace and Gromit
3. My Fair Lady
4. Rear Window
Four places I’ve lived:
1. Panjim, Goa, India
2. NYC
3. Winston Salem, NC
4. Mumbai, India
Four TV shows I love:
1. The Nanny
2. Desperate Housewives
3. Strong Medicine
4. Good Eats
Four places I’ve vacationed:
1. The White Mountains, New England
2. The Western Ghats, India
3. Orlando, Florida
4. Toronto, Canada
Four of my favorite dishes:
1. Crunchy green salad w/garbanzo beans
2. Elaivadaam
3. Falafel
4. Lemon rice with chips
Four sites I visit daily:
1. Wall Street Journal
2. Cricinfo.com (cricket updates)
3. bestcrosswords.com
4. Google of course
Four places I would rather be right now:
1. Dean's office, UNCG Business School
2. Russia
3. In my grandma's kitchen
4. in a clean house :)
Four bloggers I am tagging:
1. Everone seems to have done it but me .. so I can't think of someone to tag.
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