j's scratchpad

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

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. Some technical problems [...]

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, [...]

“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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]