Andrew Cullison

I’m on the road, but blogging will continue thanks to my Android phone. I have a few things I’ve been thinking about that I plan to write up. While I’m thinking about it - For those of you with wordpress blogs and smartphones, I highly recommend the wordpress plugin - Wphone. I’ve used it now [...]

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I read this post this morning over at Tech Crunch. Amazon has started Kindle Publishing for Blogs. Here’s the weird thing. Anyone can put any RSS feed and sell it to Kindle users - even if they are not the authors. I thought I’d test it out with my blog to see if I could [...]

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I’ve started a group here on campus to help promote and support the use of open source software on campus. Right now our site is called Open SUNY. When I tell people on campus that we should consider making the switch to open source software, I often here something like - “Yeah, but who’s going [...]

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I’ve been asked to present at a campus Earth Week event on open source software, the environment, and social justice. As with the “9 Cool Web Apps Post“, I’ll be using this post as a kind of handout that people at the talk can go back to. I hope off-campus readers will get something out [...]

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It’s like noble medics offering to heal the wounded enemy…for free. Gotta love open source.

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The recent version of Open Office makes it very easy for philosophers to insert logical notation into their papers. It’s done through by adding special commands into the AutoCorrect Feature. This post will show you how to do that. Suppose you want the existential quantifier to automatically replace ‘/e’ - Here’s what you do.

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Introduction I am the Technology Associate for our Professional Development Center. Part of my job is to test out technology that I think could have useful applications for faculty and staff. I’m giving my first presentation this morning, and I will be using this post (instead of something like powerpoint) as a kind of interactive [...]

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It’s been awhile since I’ve banged the open source drums. Here’s random assortment of interesting open source news that I’ve bookmarked over the last month.

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Story here. Read on to the end. Ken (the author of the post and the open source advocate in the story) reports about a conversation he had with other members of the attacker’s party. This conversation happened after the attack. The discussion reveals something interesting about the technical support strategy that underlies tech support for [...]

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Zotero 1.5 just launched their beta version. I’ve been playing around with a preview version of this. It was awesome then, and it looks like the beta version is loaded with even more goodies.

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