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Tribbles Need Not Apply

Today, The Chronicle of Higher Education had a wonderfully misguided article entitled “Bloggers Need Not Apply“. Written by a “humanities professor at a small liberal-arts college in the Midwest” writing under the pseudonym “Ivan Tribble”, the article details how his college’s recent faculty search ended up disqualifying a lot of candidates largely because they were bloggers.

An article this misguided is not the sort of thing I’d expect out of the Chronicle. It illustrates the wrong line of thinking about blogs, the wrong line of thinking about interviewing candidates, and the wrong line of intersecting the two. This is worth picking apart. (Please click through for a full dissection.)

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Apple’s Other Great OS: OS X Server

Most everyone’s well familiar with OS X by now, be it from daily use over the last five years, or from hatred or jealousy. Speaking as to the powers of OS X would be silly; they’re well advertised, well known, and would only act as filler.

But not everyone has used Apple’s other OS, the server version of OS X. This is largely due to price – for consumers, it can be up to over seven times more expensive with no real benefits for end users. As such, it is often only those of us in institutions that have already invested in it that get to enjoy its perks.

So this post goes out to all the geeks toiling away in IT departments but haven’t looked at Apple’s offerings yet. Below the fold, you’ll find the five reasons I heart OS X Server and its related products – and why you should integrate it into your deployments.

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Workblogging: My Brain In Blosxom

Yesterday’s Take Note covered the first half of my work equation, the actual entry part. But what of the critical organization step? Sure, I mentioned I had Quicksilver and Spotlight to keep the structure hounds at arm’s length, but there needs to be some organization. I’ve never been one of those people who keeps every file I’m working with on the desktop, and I wasn’t going to start now.

There’s also the presentation issue, and the access limitation issue, and the categorization issue, and…man, I sure do have issues!

If you’ve read the title of this post, you probably know what the solution is, but I’m a big fan of nuances, so let’s take a look at criteria and how I picked the tools I’m using.

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