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My blog host has been horribly unreliable these past several weeks. Problems with the Wordpress install that they provided themselves (they’re no longer supporting this type of hosting plan or updating the install, although they didn’t tell me when I renewed the hosting plan in February) and problems with the host in general (I’m getting truncated pages from the server more often than getting all the files). I really don’t want to do this, but I’m looking into changing webhosts yet again. *sigh*

I’ve been driving a lot the past two weeks (hence, little time to blog). Thank goodness for audiobooks. I’m on my third now or, at least I will be, as soon as I finish burning the eleven CDs required to transfer the library’s e-book to a form I can listen to in the car as the Overdrive DRM they use isn’t compatible with my three-year-old MP3 player. That means that I’ll probably give the library’s audiobooks a miss because if I have to buy dozens of CDs just to listen to a few, I’d be better off buying the recordings, myself!

Of other audiobooks I’ve consumed lately, I heartily enjoyed Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers which was compatible with the old Sansa (thanks to Audible.com’s rather more functional DRM features). Less enchanted with the abridged Persuasion which I’d bought from eMusic a while back. (The narration was great but the editorial slashing was painful.)

Via the American Historical Association’s blog, I became aware of UVic’s Unsolved Canadian Mysteries website.

Almost immediately, I noticed that they had a microsite asking Where is Vinland?, keeping open the hopes many hold for alternative locations of that fabled site beside the well-established settlement at L’Anse aux Meadows in places such as Newport, RI and Dighton, MA, New Brunswick and Cape Cod.

Eben Horsford would be sad to see there’s no acknowledgment of his preferred site, Norumbega (present-day Boston). James W. Curran would protest their overlooking of his preference in the Great Lakes around Sault Ste. Marie. And my own childhood summers spent near the Kensington Runestone makes me wonder why those spots didn’t get a mention, too (why else do you think they called them the “Minnesota Vikings”?). And where’s the Heavener Runestone?

Honestly, if you’re going to bring up the Dighton Rock and the Newport Tower, you might as well let all the wild theories in since you’ve set the bar pretty low in terms of current historical and archaeological scholarship.

Despite that, this a great little site that lightly touches on the written and archaeological sources as well as featuring a number of biographies of people mentioned in the sagas as well as a parallel set of pages on L’Anse Aux Meadows (I have a friend who has contributed a lot to the recreation, there, through his work in historical ironcraft). But I love how, even with this strong archaeological link, people just can’t let go of alternative sites and their beloved Vikings.

Tenured Radical has a great post up about the financial realities of starting a new academic job. If you or someone you know is starting into the seemingly-luxurious position of full-time academic work next year, read that post.

To her helpful list, I’d add that you should ask other people who’ve recently come to town or been hired on for their advice. They might alert you to aspects you’d not really considered (neighbourhoods with poor bus service, faculty discounts for bus passes, moving allowances) that are helpful to new arrivals. You might learn that there are monthly pot-lucks that you’ll be expected to take your turn at hosting (better to know this before you get to the beans and ramen end of your monthly paycheque!) or that you have to ask to get a chance to teach summer school courses for a little extra money (all the while considering how that might eat into your research plan which is first priority for most people on the tenure-track or aspiring to the same).

Also, learn to say “Sorry, I can’t” when your friends and family in distant places assume that, with your sparkling new job, you can afford to join them in the Caribbean during Spring Break (even if you could come up with the money, you’ll probably have marking galore!). You’ll also need those words for yourself as you contemplate the wealth of reference books or materials you’d always promised yourself you’d buy once you were “settled in” with a job. Bit by bit — don’t blow that budget!

While there are some elements of Google Books that I find problematic (the messy state of metadata being one major problem), and others that I’ll never get to explore (such as the new mega-analytic projects getting underway at places such as Stanford), let me say that Google Books is a boon for scholars in the boonies. In other words, people like me who live and work far from major research libraries!

If someone recommends a book to me and it’s not in our library, I’ll look to see what its entry has over at Google Books. Sometimes there’s no preview or just snippets, of course, but even then, Google Books might provide some useful reviews and related links. In the lefthand sidebar, you’re shown booksellers, publishers and even a Worldcat link for many books. The last helps me figure out if interlibrary loan is likely to be speedy or slow, a crucial bit of information for projects on a strict timeline.

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