Bit of time stretching going on there!

MSDOS < *nix
Windows < Mac
NetBEUI < TCP/IP
VB < Delphi
MSN < WWW
Windows Mobile < Android
CoPilot < ChatGPT
\ < /

When wasn't the M$ ecosystem a pale (and costly) imitation of something better?

Yes

They wouldn't let it lie

Lovely to hear @jfwinters.bsky.social talking about the future of history on the History Extra podcast 😍

Why are universities still teaching referencing styles? In the digital era, inserting a reference into a text is as easy as pressing control-K. So why do universities still insist on troubling students with the minutiae of traditional referencing styles th...

Well indeed 😭

Why are universities still teaching referencing styles? www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/why-ar...

Vile

I don't think they got the most from you tho 😕 Have you got any recent writings on the subject?

Universities Challenged - Is it worth it? - BBC Sounds With all the problems facing universities, is it still worth getting a degree?

Lovely surprise to hear @sianbayne.bsky.social on the radio today!

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

In a world where over the years I've picked hundreds, if not thousands, of pens at conferences and exhibitions, how come I can never find one that works around the house?

A kind of reverse Turing test 🤣

They never should have left Constable Savage alone with the AI 🤣

Putin knows

Automated university systems ‘make administrative burden worse’ Risk-averse mindset, fervour for meetings and ‘time sink’ labour-saving ploys leave everybody overburdened, finds Melbourne study

"Please complete your assigned training...."

www.timeshighereducation.com/news/automat...

An old favourite

When sending a form back by email isn't acceptable, but printing it and emailing a scan is...

lookscanned.io/en/scan

Fascinating snafu, also afflicted me when I made the first edition of my Practical Blog Preservation book on Lulu.com - the fis were visible in my PDF but they left blank space in print. Lulu kindly fixed it and reprinted

"It is hard to see the other side of the elephant unless you are on top of it.”

The Tao of Thomas Frank

I used to plough thru novels on my 45 minute train journey to work , and I think we can best support today's students by ensuring as many books and learning resources as possible are fully and easily accessible on smartphones. Well-produced podcasts and open ebooks are a good start

Reframing the commute Emma Maslin considers the positives of the commuter student experience.

This week on Wonkhe: Emma Maslin considers the positives of the commuter student experience.

Why extracting data from PDFs is still a nightmare for data experts Countless digital documents hold valuable info, and the AI industry is attempting to set it free.

Two decades on and PDF is still "a hamburger we’re trying to turn back into a cow" (@petermurrayrust.bsky.social, 2008)

arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/w...

Eddie enjoyed looking round the Once Upon A Page children's book exhibition at @ljmulibrary.bsky.social

At the time I never explicitly thought of it as a "bespoke TEI XML interface which renders a detailed knowledge of XML unnecessary", but I guess that's what it is!

Simplenote The simplest way to keep notes. Light, clean, and free. Simplenote is now available for iOS, Android, Mac, and the web.

Surprised I don't hear more about simplenote.com, the formatting is superb and links easily shared, and with Markdown too I reckon you could make a passable website or newsletter or ebook quite easily

Château Jisc hasn't got any better over the years!

‘A machine-shaped hand’: Read a story from OpenAI’s new creative writing model Posting the piece online, OpenAI’s Sam Altman said this is the first time he has been “really struck” by AI writing

Couldn't help feeling an affinity between the FP narrative style of the OpenAI metafiction and @annleckie.com's Ancillary Justice protagonist(s)!

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

ChatGPT - UK Govt Spending Trends Shared via ChatGPT

The future of idle curiosity about the kinds of things they say. Unbelievable power. But as we all know, with great power comes great responsibility 🕷️

chatgpt.com/share/67c5ff...

Never delved much into Frank solo, though Black Letter Days is an album I'm always happy to return to

Having had the privilege of working with the collections of the @linneansociety.bsky.social I'm looking forward to this!