From rooted Evo 4G to Unrevoked Forever + Froyo
August 16th 2010Thanks to a clever Sprint employee who secretly stockpiled the coveted phone for new customers, I've had an Evo 4G since the day after it was released. Despite foolishly accepting the first OTA upgrade... read more
State of the projects (early July 2010)
July 10th 2010BIRCHBARK LETTER XML I have at least a first pass at the names-in-context data for documents 1-23, to supplement the proof-of-concept data I put together previously. MEDIEVAL SLAVIC WIKI I've put together a work plan [http://www.medievalslavic.org/Medieval_Slavic:Current_events] (subject to change) with the articles I'd like to try to incorporate into the wiki by October... read more
Why I've walked away from Apple
July 1st 2010Yesterday, a friend made the mistake of asking me why I switched from iPhone to Android, on an afternoon when I had some time to kill at the airport. His response to my long e-mail was that I should publish it on a blog somewhere... read more
New birchbark XML: names in context (NIC)
June 27th 2010To enable a more interesting proof-of-concept for the birchbark letter XML project, I've spent the last week making a new, limited data set (all documents from 1100-1120, plus some documents with the same names from the 12th century... read more
Early results from a birchbark letter proof-of-concept
June 27th 2010The frustrating thing about attempting a proof-of-concept for the birchbark letters is that many of the calculations I find most interesting need to be run over the entire corpus-- which means a lot more data preparation than I currently have finished... read more
The state of the birchbark letters XML project
June 19th 2010I was hoping to delay this until I had the Subversion repository ready to distribute the first versions of the XML, but setting it up is taking a bit longer than I anticipated. I'm working on a proof-of-concept for the kinds of analysis that can be done using the name and date indices together... read more
Modernizing Research through Collaborative Reference Tools: The Medieval Slavic Linguistics Wiki
June 18th 2010As a way of setting an actual deadline for myself to make some progress on the Medieval Slavic wiki, I submitted an abstract to the Fifth Annual Meeting of the Slavic Linguistic Society, which follows... read more
NITLE 2010: Medieval Slavic wiki meets Project Bamboo
April 18th 2010For the NITLE Summit 2010 poster session, I combined my Medieval Slavic wiki [http://www.medievalslavic.com] with the work I've been doing as part of Project Bamboo [http://www.projectbamboo.org]. The abstract is below... read more
Balkan & South Slavic Conference: presentation materials
April 16th 2010On April 17, 2010, we gave a talk on the Bulgarian Dialect Atlas at the Balkan and South Slavic Conference at the Ohio State University. You can download the slides here [/assets/files/dombrowski_2010-04-17.pdf].... read more
Installing Cocoon on Ubuntu
April 14th 201010/11/10 -- This guide was written for Intrepid, and doesn't work on the latest Ubuntu releases. An updated and working version of the guide is available here [/blog/2010/12/10/installing-cocoon-on-ubuntu-10-04-or-10-10]... read more