{"id":3637,"date":"2010-02-22T19:35:51","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T19:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/?p=3637"},"modified":"2010-02-22T19:35:51","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T19:35:51","slug":"the-price-of-being-disorganized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/2010\/02\/22\/the-price-of-being-disorganized\/","title":{"rendered":"The price of being disorganized"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m so cross with myself.\u00a0 Some years ago I ordered a paper copy of PhD thesis containing a translation of John Chrysostom’s Eight Homilies Against the Jews<\/em>.\u00a0 It cost real money.\u00a0 For years I have tripped over it.\u00a0 Now I need it, and it is nowhere to be found.\u00a0 Drat the thing, where can<\/em> it be hiding?\u00a0 I was going to convert it to PDF.<\/p>\n

I was also looking for the Fathers of the Church<\/em> volumes which are freely available on Archive.org.\u00a0 I know<\/em> I downloaded them.\u00a0 But are they are on my hard disk?\u00a0 They are not<\/em>!<\/p>\n

However do I avoid this happening?<\/p>\n

I’m hoping to get the lost (and rediscovered) portion of Chrysostom’s Second Sermon translated and up on the web.\u00a0 Time for another go at that particular hobby horse!\u00a0 This one I will give away.<\/p>\n

UPDATE:\u00a0 Hmm.\u00a0 Well I’ve just found the Chrysostom.\u00a0 You see, when you have photocopies of complete books, they do make very large piles.\u00a0 In the days when I was scanning a lot, I acquired a few of these doorstops.\u00a0 My solution was to get the boxes that photocopier paper comes in (with lids), and place the books in those, writing on the lid which books were present within.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Unfortunately I have acquired few such in recent years, and the pile of seven boxes next to my desk has come to serve as a make-shift extension on which papers get put.\u00a0 Fortunately I thought to look under the papers.\u00a0 In the second box down was the Chrysostom.\u00a0 Thank heavens for that!\u00a0 And I bet modern scanning will take a fraction of the time it did the last time I attacked that one.\u00a0 I ordered it on 27th March 2007.\u00a0 Was it that long ago?\u00a0 Wow…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m so cross with myself.\u00a0 Some years ago I ordered a paper copy of PhD thesis containing a translation of John Chrysostom’s Eight Homilies Against the Jews.\u00a0 It cost real money.\u00a0 For years I have tripped over it.\u00a0 Now I need it, and it is nowhere to be found.\u00a0 Drat the thing, where can it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[55,19],"tags":[424,728],"class_list":["post-3637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chrysostom-project","category-from-my-diary-announcements","tag-chrysostom-project","tag-from-my-diary"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}