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#360 From: "Michael Robinson" <robinsonrepepys@...>
Date: Thu Sep 6, 2007 3:32 am
Subject: We seem to be on/ahead of the cutting edge of theory and 'reading practice.'
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A new science fiction novel is threatening to completely overhaul the
way literary criticism is conducted, claims John Sutherland

"Any contemporary novel today has a kind of Google novel aura around
it, where somebody's going to google everything in the text ...
there's this nebulous extended text. Everything is hyperlinked now.
What the author is outlining here is the theory of a new and
innovatively creative reading practice."


Node-man, a Gibson fan, has duly set up a website with the devotional
URL node.tumblr.com. Node-man also got a very early copy of Spook
Country. The fan is unidentified: Gibson knows who he is, and says he
lives in small-town USA and wants, apparently, to stay anonymous.

Node-man mobilised a volunteer army of fellow enthusiasts and set out
to create what Gibson above terms the "Google aura", or what he
prefers to call the critical "cloud" that hovers over every work of
literature. We can now "map" this in ways we never could before -
thanks to Messrs Google and Wikipedia.

What this means, at the basic level, is a new kind of annotation.

Full Text:
http://books.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2159309,00.html

#361 From: Susan Thomas <susan.thomas@...>
Date: Thu Sep 6, 2007 4:02 am
Subject: Re: We seem to be on/ahead of the cutting edge of theory and 'reading practice.'
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Interesting. Interesting. A quote from the full article caught my attention:
"So too, when we read a novel, we create our channel through it. Which
is why my Da Vinci Code is different from your Da Vinci Code and each of
ours are different from the five million others. Dan Brown's novel
should be seen as a gigantic piece of Emmental, with millions of
wormholes threading through it."  But if you read Jasper Fforde as well
as William Gibson (which I do), you will know that what is really true
is that books exist in their own world......Or to revert to Terry
Prachett, - technology is becoming more and more like magic. We have
created a world where almost all of us use technology we cannot possibly
hope to understand and we lose control of our lives. An example:
shopping used to end with someone working out by arithmetic how much we
owed the shop and how much change we needed from the notes and coins we
gave the assistant. Now, a check out person scans the items in front of
a machine and is told how much is owed by the customer and how much
change to give. The only skill required is "recognition of the cardinal
numbers, a minimal attention span and a rather greater capacity for
concentrated tolerance of boredom"(Eric Howsbawm). So perhaps part of
the desire of NodeMan or should I say NodePerson, is to create control
or direction. As we all have different Sams in our heads as we read The
Diary and write about different Sams when we annotate. (Something like
this happens in Gibson's Pattern Recognition, but with film.


Michael Robinson wrote:
>
> A new science fiction novel is threatening to completely overhaul the
> way literary criticism is conducted, claims John Sutherland
>
> "Any contemporary novel today has a kind of Google novel aura around
> it, where somebody's going to google everything in the text ...
> there's this nebulous extended text. Everything is hyperlinked now.
> What the author is outlining here is the theory of a new and
> innovatively creative reading practice."
>
> Node-man, a Gibson fan, has duly set up a website with the devotional
> URL node.tumblr.com. Node-man also got a very early copy of Spook
> Country. The fan is unidentified: Gibson knows who he is, and says he
> lives in small-town USA and wants, apparently, to stay anonymous.
>
> Node-man mobilised a volunteer army of fellow enthusiasts and set out
> to create what Gibson above terms the "Google aura", or what he
> prefers to call the critical "cloud" that hovers over every work of
> literature. We can now "map" this in ways we never could before -
> thanks to Messrs Google and Wikipedia.
>
> What this means, at the basic level, is a new kind of annotation.
>
> Full Text:
> http://books.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2159309,00.html
> <http://books.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2159309,00.html>
>
>

#362 From: Phil Gyford <lists@...>
Date: Sun Sep 9, 2007 8:01 pm
Subject: Site News: Reminder: Pepys meet-up (London and Boston), September 15th
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http://www.pepysdiary.com/about/archive/2007/09/09/7883.php

Just a reminder of two meet-ups happening this coming Saturday 15th
September, in London and Boston, coincidentally marking our half-way
point through the diary. First, the London gathering, suggested by
Glyn Thomas:

>  Every September, hundreds of buildings throughout the city that are
>normally either closed to the public or charge an admission fee are
>opened for free - it's become one of the city's most popular annual
>events. This year London Open House weekend is on 15th and 16th
>September, and details of the places that can be visited will be
>published in mid-August. No doubt some of them will have a Pepysian
>connection as, for example, in previous years these have included
>the Government Treasury Offices on the site where Pepys once lived,
>the Crypt of the Guildhall which has a stained glass window in his
>memory, and Trinity House of which he was a director.

>  It seems a good time to hold the second of our "annual" Pepys
>meetings, in this case at The Samuel Pepys in Stew Lane, 48 Upper
>Thames Street, London, from 2pm on Saturday 15th September.

The second was suggested by Carl in Boston and it sounds like several
people are planning to meet:

>  You are all invited to a Boston Pepys Party on Sept 15, 2007 at Ye
>Olde Union Oyster House, 2 PM to 4 PM, near Faneuil Hall in Boston,
>Mass, USA. I will be there with a picture of Samuel Pepys at my
>booth. I hope others will show up too. My cell phone is 781-521-4272
>that we may further consult. This is my invention without knowing
>anyone else, but I know you're out there with your ears on, good
>buddies. We can salute Sam with raw oysters and ale, or other food
>if you like, and discuss our favorite diarist.

So there we go - I hope everyone attending both events has a wonderful time!

(If you use Upcoming I've created events there, for London
<http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/263718/> and Boston
<http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/263720/>).





--
Phil Gyford
http://www.gyford.com/

#363 From: "karenpassionayz" <karenpassionayz@...>
Date: Fri Sep 14, 2007 8:59 am
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#364 From: "glyn_thomas1234" <glyn_thomas1234@...>
Date: Sun Sep 16, 2007 11:04 am
Subject: Pepys London meeting account
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Hi everyone

Just to say that the Pepys London meeting went well although there
were only three of us. Paul Chapin flew in from New Mexico and Andy
Thomas came down by train from Leicester. I was the only one from
London and I was the only one to be late, but the other two found each
other OK. If anyone would like to see a couple of pictures from it,
then please go to www.flickr.com and enter Pepys2007 as one word into
the Search Box. I'm looking forward to finding out how the Boston
meeting was.

#365 From: Todd Bernhardt <beat_town@...>
Date: Sun Sep 16, 2007 2:45 pm
Subject: Re: Pepys London meeting account
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Wish I could have made it! Great photos, Glyn ... nice, too, to connect faces to
the names.

--- glyn_thomas1234 <glyn_thomas1234@...> wrote:

> Hi everyone
>
> Just to say that the Pepys London meeting went well although there
> were only three of us. Paul Chapin flew in from New Mexico and Andy
> Thomas came down by train from Leicester. I was the only one from
> London and I was the only one to be late, but the other two found each
> other OK. If anyone would like to see a couple of pictures from it,
> then please go to www.flickr.com and enter Pepys2007 as one word into
> the Search Box. I'm looking forward to finding out how the Boston
> meeting was.
>
>

#366 From: Terry Foreman <terry.foreman@...>
Date: Sun Sep 16, 2007 5:15 pm
Subject: Re: Pepys London meeting account
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Stalwarts three and esp. Paul Chapin!  Good for y'all to connect
personalities with names, though as Todd Bernhardt says, personae (faces)
are good.

Terry Foreman


At 10:45 AM 9/16/2007, you wrote:
>Wish I could have made it! Great photos, Glyn ... nice, too, to connect
>faces to the names.
>
>--- glyn_thomas1234 <glyn_thomas1234@...> wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone
> >
> > Just to say that the Pepys London meeting went well although there
> > were only three of us. Paul Chapin flew in from New Mexico and Andy
> > Thomas came down by train from Leicester. I was the only one from
> > London and I was the only one to be late, but the other two found each
> > other OK. If anyone would like to see a couple of pictures from it,
> > then please go to www.flickr.com and enter Pepys2007 as one word into
> > the Search Box. I'm looking forward to finding out how the Boston
> > meeting was.
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
>Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>

#367 From: Terry Foreman <terry.foreman@...>
Date: Sun Sep 16, 2007 7:34 pm
Subject: Re: Pepys London meeting account
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Oh, and nice venue.

Were you by chance within a short stroll of Samuel Pepys's sometime
trysting-meetup locale?

(D'oh!  Where in Greater London is not?!)

Terry F


At 07:04 AM 9/16/2007, you wrote:
>Hi everyone
>
>Just to say that the Pepys London meeting went well although there
>were only three of us. Paul Chapin flew in from New Mexico and Andy
>Thomas came down by train from Leicester. I was the only one from
>London and I was the only one to be late, but the other two found each
>other OK. If anyone would like to see a couple of pictures from it,
>then please go to www.flickr.com and enter Pepys2007 as one word into
>the Search Box. I'm looking forward to finding out how the Boston
>meeting was.
>
>
>
>
>Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>

#368 From: Terry Foreman <terry.foreman@...>
Date: Mon Sep 17, 2007 11:00 pm
Subject: NYTimes.com: Baroque Holds Court for a New Age
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The Baroque Age is bacque!
 

ARTS / DANCE   | September 16, 2007
Dance:  Baroque Holds Court for a New Age
By ROSLYN SULCAS
A company strives to persuade dancers and audiences alike that Baroque dance has an appeal that is broader than its historical niche.

 
 
Copyright 2007 The New York Times Company  
 


#369 From: Terry Foreman <terry.foreman@...>
Date: Mon Sep 17, 2007 11:54 pm
Subject: NYTimes.com: A Golden Age, Gobbled Up by the Gilded Age
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The 17th century all over.

ARTS / ART & DESIGN   | September 18, 2007
Art Review:  A Golden Age, Gobbled Up by the Gilded Age
By HOLLAND COTTER
Some 20 paintings by Rembrandt van Rijn — the largest number outside Amsterdam — pulse through “The Age of Rembrandt: Dutch Painting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art,” a show with an elusive heart.


 
Copyright 2007 The New York Times Company 



#370 From: "Michael Robinson" <robinsonrepepys@...>
Date: Fri Sep 21, 2007 9:58 am
Subject: Kneller 'John Wallis' -- Pepys presentation to Oxford, 1702
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Photograph & lengthy cataloge note describing the commission and
subsequent presentation to Oxford.

http://www.odl.ox.ac.uk/oxfordportraits/portrait.php?q=hudson&t=C&p=0&w=88

#371 From: Terry Foreman <terry.foreman@...>
Date: Fri Sep 21, 2007 5:29 pm
Subject: Re: Kneller 'John Wallis' -- Pepys presentation to Oxford, 1702
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Interesting story, fine portrait.  Thanks, Michael.


Terry


At 05:58 AM 9/21/2007, you wrote:

>Photograph & lengthy cataloge note describing the commission and
>subsequent presentation to Oxford.
>
>http://www.odl.ox.ac.uk/oxfordportraits/portrait.php?q=hudson&t=C&p=0&w=88
>
>
>
>
>Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>

#372 From: Susan Thomas <susan.thomas@...>
Date: Fri Sep 21, 2007 10:14 pm
Subject: Re: Kneller 'John Wallis' -- Pepys presentation to Oxford, 1702
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Michael Robinson wrote:
>
>
> Photograph & lengthy cataloge note describing the commission and
> subsequent presentation to Oxford.
>
> http://www.odl.ox.ac.uk/oxfordportraits/portrait.php?q=hudson&t=C&p=0&w=88
> <http://www.odl.ox.ac.uk/oxfordportraits/portrait.php?q=hudson&t=C&p=0&w=88>
>
>
Thank you,Michael, for this. The catalogue notes show that Sam, in
later, years, displayed many of the same aspects of character we have
come to know already in the Diary - his attention to detail, his
persistence in following something through (even when in ill health as
he was then), his concern that all should be done in the very best way,
his interest in new methods and technology and desire that appropriate
recognition be given to those deserving of it. We know how Sam has been
studying mathematics diligently and we see from this that his love of
the subject and respect for those who were masters of it remained
throughout his life.

#373 From: "jeannine_kerwin" <jeannine_kerwin@...>
Date: Mon Oct 8, 2007 12:10 pm
Subject: Jane Shore -Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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For a few days there is free access to Jane's bio on ODNB at
http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/3.html

Sam has referred to her once or twice, most famously when he told us
on 21 April 1662 that "He tells me how my Lady Duchess of Richmond and
Castlemaine  had a falling out the other day; and she calls the latter
Jane Shore, and did hope to see her come to the same end that she did."

#374 From: Richard Histon <Richard@...>
Date: Mon Oct 8, 2007 3:02 pm
Subject: Re: Jane Shore -Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
rhiston
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Thanks Jane. Just to point out that anyone with a library ticket in a
major city should be able to access most of the Oxfords (full
dictionary, this one,  and others, including Britannica) from home by
accessing the Oxford site and entering your library ticket number. Most
cities seem to subscribe to this, and it is superb. All the major Oxford
(and Cambridge if you go there) are there. If you don;t have a ticket
you can access from your city library. Always go for the subscriber
option, not the limited public one.

For example the ODNB is here, ready to put your library card no. in

http://www.oxforddnb.com/auth/login.jsp?url=%2Fsubscribed%2F


jeannine_kerwin wrote:
>
>
> For a few days there is free access to Jane's bio on ODNB at
> http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/3.html
> <http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/3.html>
>
> Sam has referred to her once or twice, most famously when he told us
> on 21 April 1662 that "He tells me how my Lady Duchess of Richmond and
> Castlemaine had a falling out the other day; and she calls the latter
> Jane Shore, and did hope to see her come to the same end that she did."
>
>

#375 From: Richard Histon <Richard@...>
Date: Mon Oct 8, 2007 3:07 pm
Subject: Re: Jane Shore -Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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Many apologies - Jeannine !

jeannine_kerwin wrote:
>
>
> For a few days there is free access to Jane's bio on ODNB at
> http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/3.html
> <http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/3.html>
>
> Sam has referred to her once or twice, most famously when he told us
> on 21 April 1662 that "He tells me how my Lady Duchess of Richmond and
> Castlemaine had a falling out the other day; and she calls the latter
> Jane Shore, and did hope to see her come to the same end that she did."
>
>

#376 From: "terry.foreman@..." <terry.foreman@...>
Date: Mon Oct 8, 2007 4:32 pm
Subject: RE: Re: Jane Shore -Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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Richard,

Some of us are in small USA towns whose public
libraries don't work the way yours do.

Terry

------- Original Message -------
From    : Richard Histon[mailto:Richard@...]
Sent    : 10/8/2007 10:02:19 AM
To      : pepysdiary@yahoogroups.com
Cc      :
Subject : RE: Re: [pepysdiary] Jane Shore -Oxford
Dictionary of National Biography

  Thanks Jane. Just to point out that anyone with a
library ticket in a
major city should be able to access most of the
Oxfords (full
dictionary, this one,  and others, including
Britannica) from home by
accessing the Oxford site and entering your library
ticket number. Most
cities seem to subscribe to this, and it is superb.
All the major Oxford
(and Cambridge if you go there) are there. If you
don;t have a ticket
you can access from your city library. Always go for
the subscriber
option, not the limited public one.

For example the ODNB is here, ready to put your
library card no. in

  http://www.oxforddnb.com/auth/login.jsp?url=%2Fsubscribed%2F



jeannine_kerwin wrote:
>
>
> For a few days there is free access to Jane's bio
on ODNB at
>  http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/3.html
> < http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/3.html>
>
> Sam has referred to her once or twice, most
famously when he told us
> on 21 April 1662 that "He tells me how my Lady
Duchess of Richmond and
> Castlemaine had a falling out the other day; and
she calls the latter
> Jane Shore, and did hope to see her come to the
same end that she did."
>
>




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#377 From: "Michael Robinson" <robinsonrepepys@...>
Date: Tue Oct 9, 2007 1:08 am
Subject: Robert Hooke, 1635-1703, papers go online
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Robert Hooke, Britain's Leonardo, papers go online

By Roger Highfield, Science Editor
The papers of Robert Hooke, a 17th century scientist hailed as
Britain's answer to Leonardo, have gone on line so that his pioneering
work can now be appreciated by a global audience.

# The Hooke Folio (for broadband
users)http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/library/HookeTTP/hooke_broadband.htm
# Extracts from Hooke manuscript

Hooke (1635-1703), the first professional scientist, was always
desperate for publicity and now, three centuries after Sir Isaac
Newton allegedly tried to erase him from history, his papers have been
made available on the internet by the Royal Society, London. Hooke
joined the Royal Society as the first Curator of Experiments in 1662
and later went on to become the Society's Secretary. He performed
experiments to the public and was the first paid scientist

Continued:-
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/10/08/scihooke108.xm\
l

#378 From: "Michael Robinson" <robinsonrepepys@...>
Date: Tue Oct 9, 2007 6:02 am
Subject: Another English 'Seventeenth Century' Blog
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Observations of Anna Winterbottom & Jenni Thomas as they work on the
Hooke folio:-

http://www.scienceblogs.org.uk/archives/

#379 From: Todd Bernhardt <beat_town@...>
Date: Tue Oct 9, 2007 12:29 pm
Subject: Re: Robert Hooke, 1635-1703, papers go online
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Thanks for the link, Michael. Great stuff.

I did have to smile when I saw this:
"Prof Jardine, who is the Director of the Centre for Editing Lives and
Letters..."

I'm keeping away from that guy! I don't want my life edited...

-Todd

--- Michael Robinson <robinsonrepepys@...> wrote:

>
>
>
> Robert Hooke, Britain's Leonardo, papers go online
>
> By Roger Highfield, Science Editor
> The papers of Robert Hooke, a 17th century scientist hailed as
> Britain's answer to Leonardo, have gone on line so that his pioneering
> work can now be appreciated by a global audience.
>
> # The Hooke Folio (for broadband
> users)http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/library/HookeTTP/hooke_broadband.htm
> # Extracts from Hooke manuscript
>
> Hooke (1635-1703), the first professional scientist, was always
> desperate for publicity and now, three centuries after Sir Isaac
> Newton allegedly tried to erase him from history, his papers have been
> made available on the internet by the Royal Society, London. Hooke
> joined the Royal Society as the first Curator of Experiments in 1662
> and later went on to become the Society's Secretary. He performed
> experiments to the public and was the first paid scientist
>
> Continued:-
>
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/10/08/scihooke108.xm\
l
>
>

#380 From: "Barbara Howard" <bahoward@...>
Date: Wed Oct 10, 2007 1:43 pm
Subject: Re: Robert Hooke, 1635-1703, papers go online
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Ahaa!! I believe that is Prof. LISA Jardine. Feel any different now
Todd? ((Probably not ;-))

Barbara

--- In pepysdiary@yahoogroups.com, Todd Bernhardt <beat_town@...>
wrote:
>
> Thanks for the link, Michael. Great stuff.
>
> I did have to smile when I saw this:
> "Prof Jardine, who is the Director of the Centre for Editing Lives
and Letters..."
>
> I'm keeping away from that guy! I don't want my life edited...
>
> -Todd
>
> --- Michael Robinson <robinsonrepepys@...> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >
> > Robert Hooke, Britain's Leonardo, papers go online
> >
> > By Roger Highfield, Science Editor
> > The papers of Robert Hooke, a 17th century scientist hailed as
> > Britain's answer to Leonardo, have gone on line so that his
pioneering
> > work can now be appreciated by a global audience.
> >
> > # The Hooke Folio (for broadband
> > users)
http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/library/HookeTTP/hooke_broadband.htm
> > # Extracts from Hooke manuscript
> >
> > Hooke (1635-1703), the first professional scientist, was always
> > desperate for publicity and now, three centuries after Sir Isaac
> > Newton allegedly tried to erase him from history, his papers
have been
> > made available on the internet by the Royal Society, London.
Hooke
> > joined the Royal Society as the first Curator of Experiments in
1662
> > and later went on to become the Society's Secretary. He performed
> > experiments to the public and was the first paid scientist
> >
> > Continued:-
> > http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?
xml=/earth/2007/10/08/scihooke108.xml
> >
> >
>

#381 From: Todd Bernhardt <beat_town@...>
Date: Wed Oct 10, 2007 3:02 pm
Subject: Re: Re: Robert Hooke, 1635-1703, papers go online
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D'oh!!  [insert joke here about how my life has already been extensively edited
by women]

Thanks for keeping me honest, Barbara!
-Todd

--- Barbara Howard <bahoward@...> wrote:

> Ahaa!! I believe that is Prof. LISA Jardine. Feel any different now
> Todd? ((Probably not ;-))
>
> Barbara
>
> --- In pepysdiary@yahoogroups.com, Todd Bernhardt <beat_town@...>
> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for the link, Michael. Great stuff.
> >
> > I did have to smile when I saw this:
> > "Prof Jardine, who is the Director of the Centre for Editing Lives
> and Letters..."
> >
> > I'm keeping away from that guy! I don't want my life edited...
> >
> > -Todd
> >
> > --- Michael Robinson <robinsonrepepys@...> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Robert Hooke, Britain's Leonardo, papers go online
> > >
> > > By Roger Highfield, Science Editor
> > > The papers of Robert Hooke, a 17th century scientist hailed as
> > > Britain's answer to Leonardo, have gone on line so that his
> pioneering
> > > work can now be appreciated by a global audience.
> > >
> > > # The Hooke Folio (for broadband
> > > users)
> http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/library/HookeTTP/hooke_broadband.htm
> > > # Extracts from Hooke manuscript
> > >
> > > Hooke (1635-1703), the first professional scientist, was always
> > > desperate for publicity and now, three centuries after Sir Isaac
> > > Newton allegedly tried to erase him from history, his papers
> have been
> > > made available on the internet by the Royal Society, London.
> Hooke
> > > joined the Royal Society as the first Curator of Experiments in
> 1662
> > > and later went on to become the Society's Secretary. He performed
> > > experiments to the public and was the first paid scientist
> > >
> > > Continued:-
> > > http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?
> xml=/earth/2007/10/08/scihooke108.xml
> > >
> > >
> >
>
>
>

#382 From: Phil Gyford <lists@...>
Date: Sat Oct 13, 2007 10:47 am
Subject: Site News: Get Pepys' Diary by email
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Get Pepys' Diary by email
http://www.pepysdiary.com/about/archive/2007/10/13/7962.php

The most requested feature for the site has been
to receive daily diary entries by email. It may
have taken me nearly five years for me to manage
this but, finally, it's now possible.

To subscribe you simply need to visit the
subscription form
<http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=1245958&loc=en_US>
and fill in your email address. You'll receive an
email asking you to confirm your address and then
you're done. After a new diary entry is published
on the site you'll receive it by email. There are
instructions for unsubscribing at the end of
every daily email you'll receive.

A couple of caveatsŠ It could be a few hours
after a diary entry is published that you receive
it by email, so this isn't the way to go if you
want your daily dose immediately. You also won't
see any of the annotations by email, so you'll
still have to visit the site if you want those.
If your email client is fairly modern (accepts
HTML email) then you'll still get links to
Encyclopedia pages within the diary entry (this
works fine in Gmail for example); otherwise
you'll just see the text with no links.

The email process is handled by FeedBurner
<http://www.feedburner.com/>, where all this
site's RSS feeds
<http://www.pepysdiary.com/about/formats/> now
live, and has worked for the past week while I've
been testing it, but let me know (below or by
email) if you experience problems.


--
Phil Gyford
http://www.gyford.com/

#383 From: "Barbara Howard" <bahoward@...>
Date: Sun Oct 14, 2007 1:16 pm
Subject: Re: Site News: Get Pepys' Diary by email
barh2004
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Thank you so much for taking the trouble to do this and to notify me of same. I
have taken
up the offer as I have found my reading of the diary dropped off and I'm so glad
to resume
with this (more or less) daily nudge. Thanks again for all the work you do and
time you put
in on this!
Barbara


--- In pepysdiary@yahoogroups.com, Phil Gyford <lists@...> wrote:
>
> Get Pepys' Diary by email
> http://www.pepysdiary.com/about/archive/2007/10/13/7962.php
>
> The most requested feature for the site has been
> to receive daily diary entries by email. It may
> have taken me nearly five years for me to manage
> this but, finally, it's now possible.
>
> To subscribe you simply need to visit the
> subscription form
> <http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=1245958&loc=en_US>
> and fill in your email address. You'll receive an
> email asking you to confirm your address and then
> you're done. After a new diary entry is published
> on the site you'll receive it by email. There are
> instructions for unsubscribing at the end of
> every daily email you'll receive.
>
> A couple of caveatsŠ It could be a few hours
> after a diary entry is published that you receive
> it by email, so this isn't the way to go if you
> want your daily dose immediately. You also won't
> see any of the annotations by email, so you'll
> still have to visit the site if you want those.
> If your email client is fairly modern (accepts
> HTML email) then you'll still get links to
> Encyclopedia pages within the diary entry (this
> works fine in Gmail for example); otherwise
> you'll just see the text with no links.
>
> The email process is handled by FeedBurner
> <http://www.feedburner.com/>, where all this
> site's RSS feeds
> <http://www.pepysdiary.com/about/formats/> now
> live, and has worked for the past week while I've
> been testing it, but let me know (below or by
> email) if you experience problems.
>
>
> --
> Phil Gyford
> http://www.gyford.com/
>

#384 From: "Jenny Doughty" <jmdought@...>
Date: Sun Oct 14, 2007 7:06 pm
Subject: RE: Re: Site News: Get Pepys' Diary by email
britinme
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Thank you from me too - makes life easier.
 
Jenny
 

#385 From: Laura Sullivan <sullz@...>
Date: Sun Oct 14, 2007 11:18 pm
Subject: Re: Site News: Get Pepys' Diary by email
laurasu11ivan
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This is an amazing thing you've done, Phil!  How nice to have something I want to read instead of the usual junk. Thank you very much for your dedication to this project.
With much appreciation,
Laura Sullivan
---- Original message ----
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 11:47:58 +0100
From: Phil Gyford <lists@...>
Subject: [pepysdiary] Site News: Get Pepys' Diary by email
To: pepysdiary@yahoogroups.com















Get Pepys' Diary by email
http://www.pepysdiary.com/about/archive/2007/10/13/7962.php

The most requested feature for the site has been
to receive daily diary entries by email. It may
have taken me nearly five years for me to manage
this but, finally, it's now possible.

To subscribe you simply need to visit the
subscription form
<http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=1245958&loc=en_US>
and fill in your email address. You'll receive an
email asking you to confirm your address and then
you're done. After a new diary entry is published
on the site you'll receive it by email. There are
instructions for unsubscribing at the end of
every daily email you'll receive.

A couple of caveatsÅ  It could be a few hours
after a diary entry is published that you receive
it by email, so this isn't the way to go if you
want your daily dose immediately. You also won't
see any of the annotations by email, so you'll
still have to visit the site if you want those.
If your email client is fairly modern (accepts
HTML email) then you'll still get links to
Encyclopedia pages within the diary entry (this
works fine in Gmail for example); otherwise
you'll just see the text with no links.

The email process is handled by FeedBurner
<http://www.feedburner.com/>, where all this
site's RSS feeds
<http://www.pepysdiary.com/about/formats/> now
live, and has worked for the past week while I've
been testing it, but let me know (below or by
email) if you experience problems.

--
Phil Gyford
http://www.gyford.com/










#386 From: Phil Gyford <lists@...>
Date: Fri Oct 19, 2007 12:44 pm
Subject: Site disruption at the weekend
gyford
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http://www.pepysdiary.com/about/archive/2007/10/19/7977.php

At some point this weekend, probably on Saturday afternoon, UK time,
I'll be upgrading the software that powers this (and other) sites.
This will mean that first I'll hide all the forms for posting
annotations (so nothing is lost or broken in the switch-over) and
then things might look a bit odd if I break something. Hopefully it
won't take too long and I'll post here again when it's all up and
running.


(For those of you on this mailing list I'll send a message when I'm
about to start the work so you can be sure when it is and isn't safe
to post to the site.)



--
Phil Gyford
http://www.gyford.com/

#387 From: Susan Thomas <susan.thomas@...>
Date: Sat Oct 20, 2007 12:07 am
Subject: Re: Site disruption at the weekend
susan.thomas@...
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Phil Gyford wrote:
>
> http://www.pepysdiary.com/about/archive/2007/10/19/7977.php
> <http://www.pepysdiary.com/about/archive/2007/10/19/7977.php>
>
> At some point this weekend, probably on Saturday afternoon, UK time,
> I'll be upgrading the software that powers this (and other) sites.
> This will mean that first I'll hide all the forms for posting
> annotations (so nothing is lost or broken in the switch-over) and
> then things might look a bit odd if I break something. Hopefully it
> won't take too long and I'll post here again when it's all up and
> running.
>
> (For those of you on this mailing list I'll send a message when I'm
> about to start the work so you can be sure when it is and isn't safe
> to post to the site.)
>
> --
> Phil Gyford
> http://www.gyford.com/ <http://www.gyford.com/>
>
>
Thank you Phil! All your efforts are much appreciated, even if we don't
say so often enough!
A.S.

#388 From: "Elizabeth" <ewhitt@...>
Date: Sat Oct 20, 2007 12:57 pm
Subject: Re: Site disruption at the weekend
misslizzy999
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I agree.  This site is an amazing labor of love. I enjoy the reading
every day, along with the wonderful annotations you allow. Thank you!
Miss Lizzy

> Thank you Phil! All your efforts are much appreciated, even if we
don't say so often enough!
> A.S.

#389 From: Phil Gyford <lists@...>
Date: Sat Oct 20, 2007 3:04 pm
Subject: Re: Site disruption at the weekend
gyford
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No problem - in this case I'd be doing this software upgrade anyway,
because the software also runs my own site.

I'm about to start work on it now and can hopefully get it done
before I go out later... stay tuned!


At 12:57 +0000 2007-10-20, Elizabeth wrote:
>I agree.  This site is an amazing labor of love. I enjoy the reading
>every day, along with the wonderful annotations you allow. Thank you!
>Miss Lizzy
>
>>  Thank you Phil! All your efforts are much appreciated, even if we
>don't say so often enough!
>>  A.S.
>
>
>
>
>
>Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>

--
Phil Gyford
http://www.gyford.com/

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