Things I have learnt today

[triskellian]

• Taking lecture notes on my eeeeee is better than taking pen-and-paper notes because:
  • My hand doesn't hurt afterwards
  • I take more notes
  • The notes I take are better
  • I'm more inclined to go through them and clean them up afterwards, because:
    • It is possible to clean them up without having to completely rewrite them
  • Cleaning them up means I reread them
  • Rereading them means I'm more likely to understand and remember them
  • I can be certain I'll be able to read them in the future

Also some stuff about Mary Wollstonecraft, John Stuart Mill* and Sojourner Truth, and the political situation they were operating in.

*...of his own free will, on half a pint of shandy was particularly ill.

Comments

[triskellian]

I was delighted to notice yesterday an abundance of power points in the Radcliffe Camera (which will probably be one of my main libraries come dissertation time). I'm going to need to get me some referencing software soon, I think, and then I shall do the same :-)

[motodraconis.livejournal.com]

Do you have access to Microsoft Office Word 2007? (Perhaps via remote access from the Uni?) that has Endnote built into it - and damn handy it is too!

[triskellian]

Yes, but not on the eee - it's running Linux. I expect there's an equivalent for Open Office, and if not, there are certainly online options, although that would mean setting up my wireless access, and I'd sort of rather not, to avoid the distraction ;-)

[motodraconis.livejournal.com]

Ah... the old eee on Linux! (I've bought a new tablet eee for drawing and study work and that arrived setup with XP. I gave my old eee to a Linux friendly person.)

A chum of mine did install XP on his old eee and it seemed to work ok, he was certainly happy with his setup, though that might be more trouble than it's worth!