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"Are we doing a good job? We hope so -- but please feel free to comment. Most importantly, we want to encourage your research in and enthusiam for our marvellous medieval manuscripts."
I thoroughly enjoy your posts, or to be precise, the 'posts' from scribes from hundreds of years ago. I wonder what they would have blogged about? Ink going thick on cold days?
I'd love to see a series on script variations through the ages.
Commented May 13, 2013 on Why Do We Blog? at Medieval manuscripts blog
Why Do We Blog?
Good question. Why do we blog? The simple answer is we blog in order to tell you, our readers, about our wonderful manuscripts. We are custodians of world-class collections of ancient, medieval and early modern manuscripts; but it may not be immediately obvious to you what we look after at the B...
Yep. Agree 100% Mike. We swapped a few years ago to a Dyson (different model, but same ideas). It shifts dirt like a vacuum should.
One of those cases where you get what you pay for perhaps? Well worth it in this case.
Commented Apr 28, 2013 on Open Mike: Awed and Appalled at The Online Photographer
Open Mike: Awed and Appalled
So I mentioned Saturday is my day for doing chores. And what follows is going to make me look really bad. But I can't help it; the empiricist in me won out. It tilted the scales against the embarrassment potential. (Hey, I'm a blogger. When all is said and done.) Actually, it might make you look...
I wonder if conservators in 100 years time will look at this work and frown, as you do at older work?
Whichever, please continue to delight us with the results!
Best wishes for 2013
Commented Dec 28, 2012 on The Conservation of Codex Alexandrinus at Medieval manuscripts blog
The Conservation of Codex Alexandrinus
The British Library is committed to making available online as many of its medieval manuscripts as possible. But to do so requires considerable work behind the scenes, not least on the part of our dedicated team of conservators. We recently published to our Digitised Manuscripts site images of t...
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Jeff, are you going to leave it like this?
For those interested, the community group is open to anyone to join,
See http://www.w3.org/community/markdown/
I'm disappointed Jeff.
Commented Oct 31, 2012 on The Future of Markdown at Coding Horror
The Future of Markdown
Markdown is a simple little humane markup language based on time-tested plain text conventions from the last 40 years of computing. Meaning, if you enter this… …you get this! Lightweight Markup Languages ============================ According to **Wikipedia**: > A [lightweight markup lan...
http://www.w3.org/community/markdown/ The MarkDown community now exists. With your help its development can start.
Commented Oct 26, 2012 on The Future of Markdown at Coding Horror
The Future of Markdown
Markdown is a simple little humane markup language based on time-tested plain text conventions from the last 40 years of computing. Meaning, if you enter this… …you get this! Lightweight Markup Languages ============================ According to **Wikipedia**: > A [lightweight markup lan...
fully supportive of this idea. Taking it a tiny bit further, I think this is ideal for the Community group of W3C. Couple of other sponsors (not required to be W3C members) and the work can be done jointly there with the potential of taking it further if needed when the spec is done.
http://www.w3.org/community/groups/proposed/#markdown if you would like to see it developed this way.
HTH
Commented Oct 26, 2012 on The Future of Markdown at Coding Horror
The Future of Markdown
Markdown is a simple little humane markup language based on time-tested plain text conventions from the last 40 years of computing. Meaning, if you enter this… …you get this! Lightweight Markup Languages ============================ According to **Wikipedia**: > A [lightweight markup lan...
Absolute classic (and humorous)
Check everything and still get it wrong... though why is it that there's always someone willing to point it out!
CMOS or Oxford, I guess there's no absolute right | wrong. Just progress towards it.
Dave
Commented Jul 6, 2011 on Dear Carol: Journals vs. Books Editing; Copyeditor vs. Copy Editor at The Subversive Copy Editor Blog
Dear Carol: Journals vs. Books Editing; Copyeditor vs. Copy Editor
Dear Carol, I am an experienced proofreader and beginner copyeditor who would like to work with academic publishers. I would like to get started with journals and move into books. Do you think this is a good approach? Anonymous Dear Anonymous, Not necessarily. When we hire in our department (...
Now I'm intrigued. What was the glue for please?
Oh. And it is possible to live 'unwired' :-)
Dave
Commented Jun 11, 2011 on A Field Trip at Comfortable Shoes Studio
A Field Trip
As many of you know I’m taking an impromptu trip to visit family due to a death. I’m taking a mini journal kit with me, much pared down from my usual supplies. Here’s what I’m taking: My W&N Cotman field set A few water brushes Mini Spray Bottle A few regular brushes Mechanical Pencils 2...
Fantastic development of doodling! Amusing, entertaining, informative.
Just wondering where you get a 10' square whiteboard!
Dave
Commented Sep 26, 2010 on Good Ideas, The Four-Minute Version at stevenberlinjohnson.com
Good Ideas, The Four-Minute Version
I have to admit when the good folks at Riverhead mentioned that they were working on an animated video promoting Where Good Ideas Come From, I wasn't fully convinced it was going to be worth the effort. But the absolutely brilliant video they produced with Cognitive Media in the UK shows how wron...
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