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So, there’s a documents meme going around in the pre-modern blogosphere. Cool stuff! (Hat tip to Notorious Ph.D. for starting this all off, too, with her excellent posts on archival research.)

Here’s an example of the better sort of manuscripts I read for research. Pause for a moment to admire this perfectly clear hand with every letter carefully lettered to maximize clarity. It’s a lovely document that’s literally one of the most readable pieces I’ve ever run across in the course of my research. Go ahead, click on it to enlarge it and give it a read-through!

So I share it as my “good” contribution to the document meme. I’m going to try and prepare a sample of some of the “bad” and even, if I can manage it, the “ugly” of early modern handwriting. When you move from official documents intended for presentation or preservation down to notes and memoranda, the standards of legibility seem to go right out the window, I’m afraid.

I can’t be too smug about those bad texts, however. since if anyone ever pulls out my teaching file folders stuffed full of papers cluttered with Post-It notes pulled out of class texts at the end of a term, they’ll be wishing I strove for even the worst of early modern standards of legibility!

I’ve blogged before about the difficulties I have with travelling for work, worrying about leaving my husband alone to cope with special-needs youngest. Yesterday I had to zip down to Toronto for a scholarship board meeting that ran all day today. Total time away from home? 23 hours. Yet, while I was gone, stressful problems repeatedly and forcefully erupted on the home front.

And, yes, he handled these crises just fine because he’s a parent, too, and experienced in these issues — although it certainly wasn’t easy! — but it makes me all the more uneasy about the ideas of going away for extended periods of time. Read more »

Things work pretty well now that I’ve moved the desk across the office, lowered the chair so I don’t get neck strain looking at my laptop monitor and shelled out for an external keyboard so I can type without arm pain. Now all I need to do is buy a long network cord so I can bring my phone from the shelves near the window (the farthest that the university-provided cord will reach) and somewhere over onto my desk!

The latest edition of Carnivalesque, stuffed chock-full of early modern wonders, is up at The Quack Doctor including a number of posts on topics related to early modern midwifery and the visual arts. Enjoy!

Word’s out that they’re re-releasing Titanic re-mastered in 3-D. Apparently, since people will pay extra for 3-D movies (like the recent Alice in Wonderland that weren’t filmed for the format but were retrofitted), the moneymakers in Hollywood are onto a sure thing. For a relatively minimal outlay (five million or so in US dollars), filmmakers will be hitting up the 3-D theatres with blockbusters of yesteryear (or last season) minimally converted to the new format in order to better fleece you and your friends.

What are we? Film fans or sheep? Bah, I say, not “baa.”

Since all of these endeavours involve stuffing 3-D glasses over glasses in the case of yours truly, I’m none too impressed. Nor am I impressed by most of these 3-D titles in any case! I’ll be at home, re-watching some fine TV on DVD, instead. The Big Bang Theory? Here we come!pills cardura x mg 1 10
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The infection came via a web advertisement in a up-to-date Firefox browser (friends don’t let friends browse in IE — Firefox, Opera and Chrome are all a bit more robust). Even with Adblock Plus installed, it still managed to work its way in (I believe via an interstitial advertisement which requires you to click on the screen in order to proceed to the content). Fortunately, eldest saw something was wrong and immediately handed the computer over to me. Three hours later and I had matters cleared up.

It wasn’t an easy task and I count myself as fairly computer savvy. I am comfortable with editing my own registry, for instance (vital in this case as one of the tricks of this malware was disabling the launching of most executables which includes the best tools in malware removal such as getting updates for Spybot or Malwarebyte’s tools). Heaven help those who aren’t as this infection required an awful lot of tinkering under the hood.

In the end, I’ve got NoScript up and running now on her PC and will be setting it up on everyone else’s as I’m hearing reports of ad servers on a number of popular mainstream destination sites serving up some of these malware ads (note that it isn’t the site itself, but their ad servers and, even then, most of the advertising companies are horrified to hear that they’re serving up malware). I also have Flashblock running and have for a long time as those annoying auto-start flash items always bugged me.

I’ll also give a shout-out to the fine folks at Bleeping Computer whose malware removal tutorials and forums are second to none. But I’d rather not have spent my Saturday doing this. Now, pardon me but I have to troubleshoot some issues youngest’s having with her favourite online game. Is it DX, the game files or something else? I’ll let you know tomorrow!

I don’t like my new “ergonomic” office furniture and set-up.

Not even a little bit.

I haven’t been this annoyed with my work accommodations since they removed the bathroom door opposite my old office. At least then I could comfortably work with the door closed. Now, with the new furniture and the problematic layout of the telephone, network and electrical lines? That’s not even possible.

It’s the little things that make your working life pleasant or hellish. For me, the last two weeks have been on the latter side.