I dislike talking about myself on the scratchpad. I don’t want to discuss politics here. I don’t want to use this blog as a campaign tool. But I’d be silly if I don’t mention that I’m running for one of two Director positions on the Special Libraries Association Board of Directors. Learn more
Since I recently wrote about what the data unit at Renesys does, using the recent telecommunication cable breaks as an example, I wasn’t so sure about writing about it again with the news last week. In trying to censor the popular video Web site YouTube, Pakistan inadvertently blocked most of the traffic to the site [...]
When people learn the name of my employer, the next set of questions almost always has to do with what it is Renesys does. A few days ago, two major telecommunications cables in the Middle East broke, impeding Internet access and phone calls. Two of my coworkers have been talking to lots of folks in [...]
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While I’m thankful for all of you readers and commenters, I admit I’m not terribly thankful for the 117 comment spams I found this morning. The spam originated from a number of IP addresses, like it normally does, but each one contains an identical message pointing to a number of URLs on a server at [...]
I’m sorry I missed most of Thursday’s blog meeting about the blog blahs because I think part of why I haven’t been posting as much as I used to is because I have the blog blahs. I had kinda a blah day, a day I often call a slow day. I have a lack of [...]
Special Libraries Association’s Click U Live w/ Gary Price September 20, 2007 Gary’s slides (get them while they’re hot) These are my very rough and scattered notes. They might not make any sense at all to you. I might clean them up eventually, but don’t count on it. = ) Gary was awesome, as always. [...]
and left us with some cool stuff. I haven’t dug around yet to examine all the changes, but I added a comment preview widget and stats. I noticed the categories no longer have one checked by default. Yay! I was getting tired of unchecking it each time I wrote a post. I tried adding the [...]
“On Monday, June 25th, the Berkman Center will perform the long-awaited upgrade to Weblogs at Harvard Law http://blogs.law.harvard.edu). In order to make this major change, we will disable posting and commenting on all blogs for approximately 5 hours, beginning at noon.” From about noon EST until 5 pm EST on Monday, June 25, the ability [...]
Friday night, I saw the Hollywood Librarian: a look at librarians through film http://www.hollywoodlibrarian.com/index.html It was a very good film about libraries, the different types of librarians and how librarians are portrayed through the years in film. At the end of the film, Ann Seidl talked about how she wants to distribute the film. She [...]