Posted by Greg Walsh on Jan 28, 2010 in
Random Hello. I apparently haven’t posted on my blog since sept 2009. I remember disengaging my twitter feed to my blog because of tweeting the wrong thing and realizing it was in a bunch of places (facebook, twitter, my blog, identi.ca, friendfeed).
Last semester was good. I earned my first B+ in stats II, but, now classwork is done and I’m working on my integrative paper (iPaper). Once I successfully complete that, I will be a PhD candidate and ready for my proposal and then dissertation.
Posted by gregwalsh on Jul 9, 2009 in
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Posted by gregwalsh on Jul 9, 2009 in
Random I just moved my RSS Feed from the Retrofit default to Feedburner (a google company). Let’s hope it works!
Posted by gregwalsh on Jul 7, 2009 in
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Welcome to the Future I’m surprised this list doesn’t have a slide rule. I would love to be able to use an abacus.
Gallery: Low-Tech Computers From Prehistory to Today | Gadget Lab | Wired.com.
Posted by Greg Walsh on Feb 28, 2009 in
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Using this apparatus, we are able to grow Janey 3 months in one night…
Actually, she has jaundice and this is a pic of her in the photo-therapy light. She’ll be here until tomorrow morning when she’ll be evaluated for her BillyRubin count.
Until then, she awaits take off.
Posted by Greg Walsh on Feb 28, 2009 in
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5 lbs 1 oz Mary Jane Walsh is tiny.
Posted by Greg Walsh on Feb 16, 2009 in
Random Our favorite Bloomsburg acting alum has been on CSI: Grissom’s last episode, House, and will be on Psyche this week. I was his RA in college…ok, not on my wing, but the other wing…and I was only an RA for one summer…but still. I may have been in a play with him, too…maybe not WITH him but in the same short play show.
He is having the best month ever!
Posted by gregwalsh on Nov 17, 2008 in
Random I think this is my longest post ever:
BOSTON, MA – November 13, 2008 -The International Children’s Digital Library (ICDL) (www.childrenslibrary.org), which is the world’s largest collection of children’s literature available freely on the Internet, today announced that it has signed an agreement with Google to augment its vast collection of public domain children’s literature with public domain titles digitized using Google’s state-of-the-art scanning technology. The result will be the addition of potentially thousands of scanned, searchable children’s books to the ICDL. As part of the agreement, the ICDL and Google will share their public domain titles making them available via the ICDL and Google’s Book Search.
“This is great for ICDL as it helps further extend the reach of their exemplary collection of multi-lingual children’s literature around the world,” said Judith Hottensen, Publisher, Weinstein Books. “By doing so, publishers, authors and illustrators can better reach children, parents, and teachers in some of the most underserved parts of the globe. The ICDL is a truly noble cause.”
The ICDL joins company with 28 other prestigious Google Book Library Project Partners but unlike these large state-of-the-art library systems, the ICDL is a small innovative non-profit that leverages technology to emphasize the pedagogical and unifying components of children’s literature through a user interaction that was designed by children from around the world. And, unlike its other 28 partners, the ICDL owns no books.
“Digitizing books is our single largest expense in providing free exemplary literature to children the world over,” said Tim Browne, Director of the International Children’s Digital Library. “Our relationship with Google is significant in that it catapults us forward light years in terms of scale. The Google scanning technology is best-of-breed and we are thrilled to have access to the technology as well as Google’s existing collections.
The ICDL is the most recent library to partner with Google Book Search. Other partners include Columbia University Libraries; University of Michigan; Harvard University; Oxford University; the New York Public Library; Stanford University; University of California; University of Texas at Austin; University of Virginia; University of Wisconsin-Madison; Princeton Library; the Complutense University of Madrid; the Bavarian State Library; the Library of Catalonia; the University Library of Lausanne; Ghent University Library; Keio University Library; Cornell University and the Committee on Institutional Collaboration (CIC) schools, including University of Chicago, University of Illinois, Indiana University, University of Iowa, Michigan State University, University of Minnesota, Northwestern University, Ohio State University, Pennsylvania State University, Purdue University.
About ICDL
Founded in 2002, the International Children’s Digital Library (ICDL) has the world’s largest collection of children’s literature available freely on the Internet. Funded initially by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS), and Microsoft Research, ICDL debuted at an international celebration inside the US Library of Congress. The mission of the non-profit ICDL Foundation is to identify exemplary books that help children to understand the world around them and the global society in which they live and make them freely available on the Internet. The materials in its collection, all presented in at least the original languages in which they were published, reflect similarities and differences in cultures, societies, interests, and lifestyles of peoples around the world. For more information, please visit ICDL on the Web at www.childrenslibrary.org.
Posted by Greg Walsh on Nov 15, 2008 in
Random I updated my CV.
Posted by Greg Walsh on Oct 22, 2008 in
Creative,
Random Here’s the new look for the blog. It is 90% Messy Desk by laptop geek. I’m slowly changing the pics at the top to be more personalized. I had a Newton Messagepad 2000 up there but took it down…I didn’t like its angle.
UPDATE: I actually made a portfolio for my web site that looked similar to this. I might re-update that with a look like this.
