Who Were the Sea Peoples?

"Doing the good is an art and a balancing act, not a neat, tidy science whereby we simple-mindedly carry some one principle toward infinity." -- Jerry Salyer

I don't check my blog stats often, but I just did, and my number two referrer since the blog began is... Silas! Imagine that.

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Over at Think Markets .

My vote: The fact that the button on the map that tells the software to center the map on your current location also causes the map to re-size! What the hey? It as though recalculating a spreadsheet also rounded off all of the numbers, or printing a document also converted it into a PDF file. Worse yet: The software actually fights the user over the map zoom level. The level it chooses when you hit the "current location" button is way more zoomed in than I usually want (because most often I am using it to see the traffic ahead of me, and I already know where I am and am going), so I zoom out. But as it locates me, the software zooms back in. I zoom out again. It zooms in again. All this while one is rapidly approaching the fork in the highway where one has to choose a direction based on the traffic. Well, as Yogi Berra used to say, "When you see a fork in the road, take it."

Another good one from PSH.

I now have a large base of references in my various papers and forthcoming book. I'd like to start using a reference management tool to manage this, but when I look at their import options, they mostly seem to want to be handed a file marked up in some database format for importing. Is there any software out there that parses your existing references and imports them? I used to write these kind of filters when I worked for Ntergaid , one of the first PC hypertext companies, and I know they are error-prone. But cleaning up 5% of my references is better than trying to put 100% of them in some tab- or comma-delimited text format.