Two Conference Paper Proposals
I recently submitted two conference paper proposals. One is somewhat connected to one of the chapters of my dissertation, and the other is something of a prequel for a post-dissertation project I hope...
View ArticleGoogle and the Pragmatic Idealist Response
Google has made an unprecedented threat to end the censorship of its search results in China and, if this is unacceptable to the Chinese government, even contemplate leaving the Chinese market. The...
View ArticleOmniOutliner AppleScript to Append a Note to Selected Rows
In the last of three postings I wrote on note taking for the dissertation about a year ago, I proposed a kind of a note taking software that would allow researchers to link the huge gap between our...
View ArticleHistory Job Market
I dropped in on a history department event for graduate students about the job market for the coming year. I didn’t stay for some of the reports from those who have seen the market and lived to tell...
View ArticleTime to Walk the Walk
I am deeply frustrated with the sometimes closed atmosphere in academic life. I feel a profound discomfort when I encounter students and scholars who are paranoid that their research ideas will be...
View ArticleTell Me Why This Couldn’t Work
I found lots of interesting book offerings in the Routledge Asian Studies catalog I got in the mail today. Government and Politics in Taiwan is out in paperback, I’d love to learn a bit more about...
View ArticleiAnki for iPad Hack
I recently broke down and got an iPad. I use it mostly for reading PDFs on the run, watching movies, taking notes (with external bluetooth keyboard), and studying my daily flashcards. After trying (and...
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Using an iPhone 3GS to Scan Documents and Create PDFs
During my field research in Korea, Taiwan, and China I carried around a hefty camera with me to archives and libraries. On those fortunate occasions when I was allowed to use it, I snapped nice...
View ArticleRevisting the Note Taking Problem with DEVONthink
Though I continue to enjoy using the excellent software Scrivener to compose my dissertation, I am still unhappy with my note taking strategies and how I collect and organize this information...
View ArticleZotero and DEVONThink
I have a bibliographic database in Zotero. The citation information is easy to scrape from web databases such as my own library, Amazon, and the many journal databases that I use. It is convenient to...
View ArticleLittle dh and Planting Seeds
The following is reposting of an entry I contributed to the THATCamp New England blog: I am excited to have the opportunity to join THATCamp New England this November and look forward to learning from...
View ArticleSan Martin and Maoland – US Training of Police in the Art of Crushing Protests
Watching the events as they unfold in Egypt and earlier in Tunisia, I have been fascinated by the evolving role of the police. Though also true in the Tunisian case, the Egyptian police has long been...
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Notes from A Solidarity March with Occupy Boston
On Monday I joined in the Student Solidarity March for Occupy Boston together with a few friends and I thought I would share a few notes. I don’t have much experience with protesting. Though I consider...
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A Tale of East Asian History, British Loan Sharks, and a Russian Hacker
A few weeks back I woke up at 6:30 in the morning to a phone call. “I would like to buy your domain froginawell.net. $500, what do you say?” I instinctively tried to answer in a voice that did not...
View ArticleArizona and Bad Bentheim
There were between twenty and thirty people on my car of a Berlin-bound train from Amsterdam. The train was taking a ten minute break in Bad Bentheim, the first stop in Germany after passing out of the...
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