I didn’t realize how much I had to do, personally and with my family, today, but it’s been productive. Really productive. It’s nice to have a Saturday where I can feel like something good is being done and I’m not grinding my wheels. That said, the quarter is coming to a close and I need [...]
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Just another busy Saturday
No Comments Khalil on Feb 27th 2010
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On Improving Your Life
Not that I am or want to be a motivational speaker, but I have been working at improving how I think about and feel about life for a while, as the two tend to go hand in hand. As someone who vacillates between critical and applied academic work, it’s easy to fall into the trap [...]
No Comments Khalil on Sep 23rd 2009
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Good Mac Apps for Productivity
Mashable has a good round up of productivity applications available for your Mac. It was nice to see some of the apps I use frequently given due props. Specifically, I use OmniFocus (on both my iPhone and Mac), EverNote (on both my iPhone and Mac), TweetDeck (on both my iPhone and Mac), and DropBox (on [...]
4 Comments Khalil on Sep 21st 2009
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My iPhone
For a number of reasons, I never initially planned on getting an iPhone. The first gen didn’t move me, the second gen left me wanting more, but shortly after the second gen release, the desire sparked. Initially, it had more to do with the shortcomings of Palm and Satan’s own Mobile Windoze as well as [...]
No Comments Khalil on Jul 26th 2009
So I’ll start with the random. I was glad to see that Graduate Junction was back in the game. I don’t know if it was really gone or if my inability to get the page to load was a glitch somewhere between my computer and the rest of the world of the internet, but I [...]
No Comments Khalil on May 2nd 2009
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GradShare – what a bummer
It seems like every time I post something lately it’s in reference to crappily done web-stuff or computer programs. And that is no different today. Except today, rather than an application to improve citations and collaboration, I’m venting about GradShare, a site put together by ProQuest. One of the many desires was that GradShare would [...]
1 Comment Khalil on Apr 12th 2009
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Seems there are a lot of citation programs
When I took my research methods class to the library for a session on using the databases for searching, I asked our amazing reference librarian to include a tutorial on RefWorks, which is free for our students through the institution. Something I noticed when I created my own account, which I’ve promptly forgotten my login [...]
No Comments Khalil on Apr 11th 2009
So one of the various social networking sites I belong to is Change.org. On a weekly basis, they send out briefings of some of their writers blog posts. This week, there were two brief and interesting pieces on prostitution (from which I appropriated the picture below). The picture was published in 2007 and shows a [...]
No Comments Khalil on Mar 22nd 2009
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Facebook, Twitter, and Blogs at work
It goes without saying that I am interested in how organizations respond to the extracurricular activities of their members. Be it employees or volunteers, there is often a vested interest in controlling, or at least attempting to control, what employees do and say in their lives outside the organization. The Chronicle (yes, it’s mediocre academic [...]
No Comments Khalil on Feb 28th 2009
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Primate Committee Thinking Experiment
Someone in my office printed this out the other day. Thus far, nobody is taking responsibility for it, but I found it both funny and extremely insightful and had to transcribe it. Start with a cage containing five apes. In the cage, hang a banana on a string and put stairs under it. Before long, [...]
No Comments Khalil on Jul 14th 2008