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Or, jack of all trades, master of library and information science with a concentration in archives management…
I am happy to announce that, at last, I am done with my graduate studies at Simmons College. Yesterday, in celebration of my newly discovered freedom, I read Book the First of Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events and enjoyed a home cooked meal of puttanesca sauce with “interestingly shaped noodles”. And, I have more playful diversions planned for the next few weeks.
As promised, I am planning to resume blogging on a regular basis. Please bear with me as I get back into the swing of things and prepare to move this weblog to WordPress.
May 12th, 2006
I have changed my tagline back to the tagline I used in the Thinking While Typing incarnation of this weblog. It is the overused, but well-loved, quote from Louisa May Alcott’s Work: A Story of Experience.* Although I have never been fired from a job for causing a fire by falling asleep while reading, I identify with Christie, the main character, in that scene. I also like Alcott’s earlier description of Christie’s bookish inclinations:
Christie loved books; and the attic next her own was full of them. To this store she found her way by a sort of instinct as sure as that which leads a fly to a honey-pot, and, finding many novels, she read her fill. This amusement lightened many heavy hours, peopled the silent house with troops of friends, and, for a time, was the joy of her life.
That quote, however, is too long for a tagline.
* The link above is to a digital version at the Project Gutenberg site, but for readers interested in a print version, Open WorldCat lists a 2001 edition of this book, as well as some earlier editions.
February 12th, 2005
Please be advised that I will be doing some site maintenance during the next week or so, including recategorizing, deleting, and editing some archived posts. Edited posts will reappear in aggregators that track changes, so please ignore any old posts that may appear. I will add a note to all edited posts and that should help prevent confusion.
November 23rd, 2004
As I reported/complained on j’s scratchpad, my attempts to quiet the obnoxious comment spammer(s) seem to be futile. Although there are no comment links and (supposedly) no access to commenting by non-editors in the discussion group, my discussion group and linked e-mail account are still being inundated.
Hoping to learn more about Manila and comment spam, I conducted a little casual research, and I stumbled across a post by Betsy Devine about the same problem. In fact, it seems to be the same annoying spammer.
Evil, awful spammers … While I can tolerate spam e-mail, telemarketers, and junk mail to a certain extent, such incursions in this space make me feel almost vengeful. I know it is not personal, and I know that it is automated and indiscriminate. Yet, I am troubled by it. It awakens in me all of the emotions that I used to feel when I worked at a library circulation desk and would find a book that someone thoughtlessly or maliciously defaced or destroyed. Grrr …
If only there were a digital equivalent to a medieval book curse.
October 15th, 2004
I am still here, but I am working quietly in the background.
Soon, I will transform this weblog into a more serious, academic space and transfer my quirkier, off-topic posts to The Playful Antiquarian. As part of this process, I will delete many of the posts here, but I will try to keep most of the posts linked to by others, as well as posts with comments.
At the moment, I have turned off the comment feature and blocked new discussion group comments. Comment spam was becoming a nuisance, and deleting unsolicited, unwarranted, and nonsensical ads from my weblog (and the inbox of the e-mail account that receives this weblog’s comment notifications) was not a good use of my time. More importantly, it was quite depressing, like the junk mail that masquerades as a birthday card or happy greeting or the telemarketer call that catches you when you are in need of encouraging words from a friend. So very sad …
Many apologies to any readers wishing to leave comments. I promise to restore comments as soon as possible. Thanks for your patience.
October 13th, 2004
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