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Happy Thanksgiving!

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007

Thank you for reading j’s scratchpad and turning this blog into a community.

Spam for Thanksgiving

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007

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 [...]

Blog Blahs

Thursday, October 11th, 2007

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 [...]

Notes from Gary Price’s SLA Talk Today

Thursday, September 20th, 2007

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. Some technical problems [...]

The blog upgrade fairy visited

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

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 Sociable plug-in, [...]

Commenting and Posting Disrupted during WordPress Server Upgrade Monday, June 25

Monday, June 25th, 2007

“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 to [...]

Hollywood Librarian film at ALA

Saturday, June 23rd, 2007

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 [...]

M dashes in taglines break WordPress’ feeds

Friday, June 22nd, 2007

I understand a few of you had problems receiving j’s scratchpad’s feed on Thursday, June 21. I put some m dashes in the quote I used from Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. Apparently, they were enough to blank the XML feed WordPress produces.
I believe it was the m dashes (—, 'mdash;) because it was the [...]

Scratchpad mentioned in LISNews’ This Week in LibraryBlogLand June 11, 2007

Monday, June 18th, 2007

The Scratchpad was mentioned in the June 11, 2007 issue of LISNews’ This Week in LibraryBlogLand about j’s postings about the SLA conference June 3-6, 2007
http://twil.lisnews.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/12/1258230
The SLA blog mentioned that j received an Agnes Henebry Roll of Honor Award, a certificate given to “a member or former member for service to the SLA News Division [...]

National Free Culture Conference, 5/26, Harvard Law School

Friday, May 25th, 2007

The National Free Culture Conference happens at Harvard Law School on Saturday, May 26. Registration is free and it probably should have been in advance.
Addendum 5/26: Free culture in the sense of this conference and organization deals with free software, movements against digital rights management, the dream to be able to share software and music [...]


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