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	<title>reflections</title>
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	<description>thoughts from a Canadian–Kiwi academic, librarian, knitter …</description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 17:21:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Finished (at last!)</title>
		<link>http://of2minds.net/reflections/?p=46</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 01:59:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brenda</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Research</category>

		<category>Free/open source</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In mid-July I submitted the final version of my thesis to the library, and am now entitled to call myself Dr. Chawner. I don&#8217;t feel any different, though, and apart from the satisfaction of having completed (after far too long) a major piece of research, don&#8217;t expect my life to change. I&#8217;ve sent the abstract [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering</title>
		<link>http://of2minds.net/reflections/?p=44</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 2011 08:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brenda</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Personal</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[p { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; }
My father died last month. At about 4:00 pm on Monday, 27 December, 2010, in the presence of my mother and brother, to be precise. It wasn&#8217;t unexpected—Dad was diagnosed with cancer in mid-2010, and my hopes for a miracle from modern medicine weren&#8217;t realised.
Since I was advised not to fly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts on LCA2010</title>
		<link>http://of2minds.net/reflections/?p=43</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:27:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brenda</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Free/open source</category>

		<category>lca2010</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I spent most of last week at LCA2010. For those of you not familiar with it, LCA is short for linux.conf.au, a conference held annually in Australia or New Zealand that focuses on free and open source software, particularly Linux. Because the conference was held in Wellington this year, I decided to go, even though [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tweaking OpenOffice for NZ English</title>
		<link>http://of2minds.net/reflections/?p=42</link>
		<comments>http://of2minds.net/reflections/?p=42#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:28:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brenda</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Free/open source</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last month I bought an HP Mini 5101 netbook computer, and was particularly pleased because I managed to buy it without Windows. It came running SUSE Linux Enterprise Edition (SLED), which I used for the first month while I was waiting for the next release of Ubunutu: Karmic Koala, in particular the Netbook Remix. There [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Missing the point: It&#8217;s time to talk about software freedom</title>
		<link>http://of2minds.net/reflections/?p=41</link>
		<comments>http://of2minds.net/reflections/?p=41#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:57:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brenda</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Libraries</category>

		<category>Software freedom</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Like many other librarians with a technology focus, I&#8217;ve been following the discussions about the Sirsi/Dynix position paper &#8216;Integrated Library Systems on Open Source Platforms&#8217; with interest. Many other bloggers have identified the main problems with the paper, which is superficial and uses misleading over-generalisations to argue against the adoption of integrated library systems released [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Progress report (or should that be lack of progress report)</title>
		<link>http://of2minds.net/reflections/?p=40</link>
		<comments>http://of2minds.net/reflections/?p=40#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:11:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brenda</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Research</category>

		<category>Free/open source</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Somehow ten months have gone by since I last posted. It&#8217;s been a busy year. I was the LIM Programmes Director until the end of June, and then was busy teaching and organising a national speaking tour for RMS, which finished with him in Christchurch, where he was a keynote speaker at the LIANZA annual [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Year, new deadline</title>
		<link>http://of2minds.net/reflections/?p=39</link>
		<comments>http://of2minds.net/reflections/?p=39#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 23:20:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brenda</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Research</category>

		<category>Free/open source</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Somehow I never seem to have much to say about my research project, but that&#8217;s going to change over the next 6 months. I need to have the thesis finished by June 2009, which means that my priority for the first half of 2009 is going to be analysing the data and writing the thesis.
I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The short version</title>
		<link>http://of2minds.net/reflections/?p=38</link>
		<comments>http://of2minds.net/reflections/?p=38#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:26:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brenda</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Research</category>

		<category>Free/open source</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This very short entry is just to record the TinyURL for the survey: http://tinyurl.com/4wgce7. I plan to print it on some small cards and hand them out at the LIANZA conference if anyone I talk to is a free/open source software user and is interested in completing the survey.

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		<title>Out in the wild</title>
		<link>http://of2minds.net/reflections/?p=37</link>
		<comments>http://of2minds.net/reflections/?p=37#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 05:22:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brenda</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Research</category>

		<category>Free/open source</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday morning I issued the invitation to complete the survey that will gather the bulk of the data for my research. It&#8217;s surprisingly hard to stop tweaking and send it out for &#8216;the world&#8217; to view.
I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised to get some feedback about the distribution method: I sent it to a number of project [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Progress report</title>
		<link>http://of2minds.net/reflections/?p=36</link>
		<comments>http://of2minds.net/reflections/?p=36#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 03:02:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brenda</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Research</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I am nearly ready to invite people to complete the online survey for Stage 2 of this project (yay!). I started designing the questionnaire a week ago, had the first draft ready on Monday, and spent the rest of the week asking people from different backgrounds to give me feedback on the questions.
It&#8217;s now at [...]]]></description>
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