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Tuesday, January 17th, 2006

A new semester begins

Today begins a new semester. Being back in classes will hopefully save me from myself. People spend their free time in lots of different ways. I usually work on web sites. Changes to this site went pretty well, my other projects didn’t turn out as planned. In attempting to integrate Stephanie’s blog and photo gallery [...]

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Wednesday, December 21st, 2005

Grades are in

Grades are in. I got 2 A’s and a B. Which makes my GPA 3.7. (No plus/minus system for grad students) It was a rough semester, I’m happy to do as well as I did. The statistics class, Quantitative Research I, was especially hard but at least I got a B. I’m taking Quantitative Research [...]

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Monday, December 5th, 2005

Thoughts on Tennessee, Missouri and the Ph.D

I got an email today that latest edition of the UT SIS Alumni Newsletter was online. It looks like SIS is finally getting some focus and direction thanks to the new director, Ed Cortez. The focus is pretty heavy on information science and technology, but they’ve still got some library focused items in the works [...]

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Tuesday, September 13th, 2005

Walking to class

Wow, 3 days and 3 posts to my blog. I haven’t been this consistent in a while. Anyway today left the wheel chair in the trunk and I walked to class. And really the wheelchair is no faster than walking with crutches. The only advantages the chair has are that when I get tired I [...]

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Written by Dan Greene, web and library geek. Topics covered here include Library and Information Science, Information Technology, web design, and maybe even a monk or two (more...)

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