A personal log entry, here, so I can (with any luck) look back on it, should I need to remember this incident. Also cathartic writing. Due to severe chronic norovirus since January – so 7 months now – I have become severely malnourished and lost a lot of weight. It has been decided that I need Total Parenteral Nutrition (TPN); IV feeding. My weight is on a downward trend from 59.5kg.
This morning, I made a last-minute incorporation of Kornbrodt, Joseph, and David Zappone, ‘Special Feature on To the Journey: Looking Back at Star Trek: Voyager’, interview with Kate Mulgrew, 455 Films, 2026, Bluray into my Voyager book. I had watched the documentary itself in a digital copy earlier in the year. It’s OK. Nothing very new. You do get a VERY enthusiastic Garrett Wang shepherding the…
After a recent post by Brennan Kenneth Brown, I decided to investigate what it would take to get this site – and, then, Knowledge Commons – onto the ATmosphere, using ATProto. This was a pretty steep learning curve, as I did not, before, understand many of the key concepts in this space. After succeeding, though, in publishing this blog to the ATmosphere (I took Brennan’s excellent advice to…
After my previous post about Zotero ingest, I wondered what else I might be able to do to make this scholarly (and personal) blog more accessible, navigable, harvestable, and ingestable. One thing that occurred to me, that I had not implemented, is that I might make this blog FAIR. That is: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable.
This is a quick “how-to” post because I learned something about Zotero. I want the posts on this site to be easily citeable. The name of the site that I would like in citations is “eve.gd: Martin Paul Eve”. But here’s the problem: when you put that as a Blog Title (or Website Title) and then go to cite it in a document, the CSL reformats it to the ugly “Eve.Gd: Martin Paul Eve”. Anyway, I found…
Following up on yesterday’s post, I received an email this morning from Andrew Johnson, who is the Scholarly Communications Librarian (Copyright & Licensing) at Sheffield University in the UK and so seems to know his stuff on this turf. With his permission, for which I am extremely grateful, I reproduce that message, as it answers some of the questions I posed:
I have recently published a book chapter (on Shadow Libraries) in a very fine collection that was published in print in January and digitally just now, in June. The digital edition contractually promises to be open access with a CC BY-NC-ND license (yes, I know, the hardcore OA crowd are baying “that’s not open access” etc. but I really liked the book concept and wanted to write for it etc.).
Some days I look at the things I’ve done and think: when I am gone there will be no trace of me, and all that I have worked upon will over time turn to dust. This may well still be true, but there are other days, like today, when I feel pretty good about the world and the things that I am working to make within it.
My colleague Ian discovered the other day that, alarmingly, even if you tell Claude code not ever to read your.env files, it may still do so and send the result back to its servers, thereby compromising your local development secrets. Ian is using Claude via cursor, but his AGENTS.md file specifically instructed Claude not to read this file. It did so anyway.
I am thinking a lot these days about my own mortality. That’s not because I am obsessed with death or anything of the sort. It’s more that my health problems are accumulating and I do not know how long my body is going to hold out against them. It might be that I can clear all my current infections. But it turns out that norovirus, which I have had for four months, can be life threatening in the…