Posted in General Thoughts on Jan 30th, 2006 No Comments »
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I had to laugh when I saw this photo that a friend and collegue of mine took at my old workplace. The heating has NEVER worked properly there I’m not sure it every will. I used to wear gloves in my office so my fingers wouldn’t freeze in the wintertime. At UH freezing in the [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jan 22nd, 2006 No Comments »
Day 2 of Midwinter I decided to attend the Info Commons interest group. MPOW is looking at creating a learning commons in the near future and I thought that I should go and see what was the latest info on the topic. Ironically, SUNY Cortland was starting work on an info commons when I left. [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jan 21st, 2006 No Comments »
Note to people running ALA conference. Pretty please make sure the equipment works for your presenters. It makes life miserable both for them and attendees when the microphone, computer, etc don’t work properly. Either no one can hear or we are subjected to microphone screech. I’ve been to two presentations and both of them the [...]
Posted in Findability, Web Services on Jan 21st, 2006 No Comments »
I had to decide whether to go to this session at ALA Midwinter or OCLC’s Extreme Makeover. Fortunately, Jane was going to the OCLC session and said she would fill me in. She and I are informally working together to cover sessions at Midwinter and trying hard to debrief each other since there always seem [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jan 20th, 2006 No Comments »
This weekend I’m off to ALA Midwinter. I haven’t been to an ALA conference since I was a library school student and I’d forgetten just how gosh darn big it is and how difficult it can be to find stuff because session are spread out across multiple hotels and the convention center. The ironic things [...]
Posted in Blogging on Jan 12th, 2006 1 Comment »
So I’ve been trying to find a reasonable work around for the fact that you can’t include PHP code in any of the Movable Type System templates or include modules in the System Templates that contain PHP. I tried a couple different solutions with no luck but riding home on the bus one day came [...]
Posted in XHTML on Jan 11th, 2006 1 Comment »
I got an email comment on my site today about the fact I have the little W3C valid XHTML symbol on my site but the site doesn’t validate. One problem was my own fault. I’d put some non-compliant code in my sidebar recently and didn’t revalidate. So it was wrong, and I have now fixed [...]
Posted in Blogging on Jan 10th, 2006 3 Comments »
I upgraded my Firefox recently and the upgrade seems to have broken the Enhanced Entry Editing plugin for Movable Type. The plugin sort of works in Safari although I get a message saying that it isn’t really supported. I’m pretty annoyed by this because one of the reasons I liked the plugin is that it [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jan 9th, 2006 No Comments »
I was looking at the new coding standards that are listed on the Wordpress page and was a little perplexed when I saw the following:
Single and double quotes
When possible, single and double quotes should be used when appropriate. If you’re not evaluating anything in the string, use single quotes. You should almost never have to [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jan 9th, 2006 1 Comment »
I’ve been doing so research and reading on Wordpress 2.0 in order to decide if I want to upgrade or not. I’ve read the upgrade instructions and have be seriously considering upgrading soon. One of the reasons I’d really like to upgrade is that the new version includes a WYSIWYG editor. This would be really [...]
