Posted in General Thoughts on Feb 27th, 2008 No Comments »
Brewster Kahle’s Keynote
How to Build a great digital library together!
We’re paid to give stuff away
Spend our money better!
Time to work together even though we are bulkanized into our own organizations
What is the Internet Archive is trying to do to work towards this?
Works with libraries
Lots of copies keep stuff safe
Mirrors in other places
Collecting the World Wide [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Feb 26th, 2008 No Comments »
The preconferences at code4lib today were really interesting. The day started out with the Evergreen preconf. Unfortunately, I didn’t come completely prepared so I spent most of my time doing tasks I was suppose to perform before the preconference. Consequently I was only able to get partially through the install process. I got stuck on [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Feb 24th, 2008 No Comments »
Arrived in Portland safely for code4lib and had all Sunday afternoon to myself. The plane trip in yielded nice photos of the Columbia River which we flew over. But even better the Portland natives who I was sitting with pointed out Mt St. Helens and Mt. Rainier as the plane made its decent. Unfortunately, I [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Feb 23rd, 2008 2 Comments »
I leave for code4lib tomorrow and by some small miracle I’m actually going to have all my stuff ready to go. I’ve put together a list of things I’d like to do in Portland but how much of that I’m actually able to accomplish will depend on if I can check-in to my hotel a [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Feb 22nd, 2008 No Comments »
The experts at work were able to resurrect my Mac Book Pro today. Although I still have to reinstall my software, it is nice to have a functioning computer again. (And YAY it works off the network!) It seems I went wrong with my Leopard install; it tried to do an upgrade rather than a [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Feb 18th, 2008 1 Comment »
Last August work acquire a MacBook Pro for me. I wanted it so I could run Parallels and do effective cross browser testing as well as using MarcEdit to test Z39.50 configurations. I don’t know if it is computer karma or what but is it has never quite been right since I got it. I [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Feb 12th, 2008 2 Comments »
It is amazing to me in becoming a department head how little of my time I spend doing technical work anymore. Much of my time is spent managing projects, people, money and keeping things moving. Every once in a while though I find myself in a position where I have to solve a problem (like [...]
