Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 39

Where the Canadian Confederation was born

What is that? Don’t ask, just eat it.

I just came back home from the «Open Repositories 2013» conference, in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada; a conference on Open Access publishing, digital repositories, preservation strategies… It was quite an interesting conference, and gave me the opportunity to meet several interesting people. Mostly worthy of note, I spent some good time with the team behind the EPrints software, which powers my institute’s repository, and with whom I expect to do some work trying to get EPrints more in shape to be considered as uploadable to Debian. I presented a (very non-technical) talk titled RAD-UNAM: Genesis and evolution of a...

In Mexico, you are supposed to recognize the saints and archangels. In Canada, they give you some help.

Most striking (for me): “The duties and responsibilities of empire”. Comments Anonymous 2013-07-17 18:10:25 Imperialists Don’t Say They’re In It for Plunder Take up the White Man’s burden— And reap his old reward: The blame of those ye better The hate of those ye guard The benefits and costs of imperialism are arguable, both to the imperial power and to the conquered. But it shouldn’t be suprising that the people performing a given action convince themselves that it is the moral thing to do. The British people generally supported their empire because they believed it did good in the world...

And the Kindle to keep the time busy