Posted in General Thoughts on Apr 27th, 2007 2 Comments »
As some of you may have noted, Dorothea turned an offer to join the LITA’s Top Technology Trends panel. I heard through the grapevine that she had been offered and spot and got very excited because I also was recently offered a seat at the TTT table and enthusiastically accepted. I am a technology geek [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Apr 23rd, 2007 1 Comment »
One piece of the Libraries site design is the incorporation of microformats into the site. The first implementation of microformats is on our contact information pages, the ones that list librarians’ phone numbers, emails, etc. Microformats are really quite cool and to test them out I installed a Firefox extension called Operator. Using this extension [...]
Posted in open source software on Apr 23rd, 2007 No Comments »
Part of my master plan for the site redesign at UH Libraries is to incorporate a federate search tool into the site. Specially I want to implement LibraryFind for this. I’ve got a plan of attack for doing this. However, step one in that plan is for me to spend some time getting a server [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Apr 22nd, 2007 6 Comments »
My cell phone has gotten kind of old and worn. So I decided to replace it with a Motorola KRAZR. What I like about the Krazer is that it is simple and sleek. It use a semi-standard connector to hook up to the computer, as well as being Bluetooth enabled. However, the big reason I [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Apr 18th, 2007 1 Comment »
For the first time in many years, I’m not attending Computers in Libraries. This is in part due to the fact that my professional life has become so busy that I’m losing my mind and can’t cope with squeezing anything else in. Part of the insanity in my life is the fact that the UH [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Apr 16th, 2007 No Comments »
Since moving my weblog to Wordpress 2 years ago, I’ve started to learn PHP in tiny, tiny bits. That endeavor continued when I chose to use Mediawiki for our library blogs. The problem is I know just enough PHP to understand most of what is going on in the code but not enough not to [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Apr 14th, 2007 1 Comment »
Sometimes you just get burned out on work and no matter what you do you can seem to get your head back in the game. Today has been one of those days for me. So I’m trying to muddle through as best I can. That means working on unfinished things in the hopes of getting [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Apr 9th, 2007 3 Comments »
When I first moved this blog to Wordpress, I didn’t really think about getting a theme at all. I just modified the default theme when I needed to. However, recently I decided enough was enough and I wanted a slightly more attractive theme. So I installed a free theme called Misty Look which was created [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Apr 8th, 2007 4 Comments »
I don’t know if it is because I carry around with me everyday or the fact that I had a mishap with my digital camera in Seattle. However, whatever the cause my lovely Canon digital camera has started to behave erratically. I bought it on my first trip to Internet Librarian because it was also [...]
Posted in General Thoughts, Tech Demons on Apr 6th, 2007 4 Comments »
Ever since I upgraded to Wordpress 2.1 (I’m on version 2.1.3 now) the post page in Wordpress has been acting weird. Often when I click the “Save and Continue” or the “Save” button I get a page that says “Are you sure you want to edit this post?”. This happens at random intervals that I [...]
