I was enjoying a Red Hook ESB and avoiding finishing the online orientation session for my new job when I wandered on to the Laughing Librarian’s blog and found this video.
Beer, OUT the nose, ON the keyboard. LL, you rock my world!
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Working on getting the correct "break"
Originally uploaded by freerangelibrarian.
Oh, the bargains this weekend… it was Petite Suit Heaven! A lovely harbinger of my new job.
I am looking forward to the new MPOW… I start tomorrow, sort of, in a soft launch so I can [...]
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I’m on a committee–the ALa Member Participation Task Force–that just put up a blog andn then back-filled it with earlier discussions we’ve had about moving ALA forward (which is a phrase that brings to mind pushing a comatose elephant uphill, but no matter…).
You can read my comments (because of course you want to [...]
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Over on Jay Allen’s blog I’ve posted a comment about Movable Type that sums up where I am with this blogging software.
Generally, break-up notes for a blogging product have this form: blogger attempts to upgrade product; blogger has trouble upgrading; blogger moves to another product and posts frustrated good-bye notice detailing everything that [...]
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The PUBLIB and Web4Lib discussion lists have been down all week–since at least Monday. I’m the co-moderator for the Publib list and on the editorial board of Web4Lib. They will not come back up until OCLC (our host for these two lists) figures out why the lists are misbehaving, and that may take a while. [...]
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It’s good and cold here in Tallahassee–the frost is literally on the pumpkin. Yesterday, while the electricians worked, I upgraded Movable Type to 3.3, reinstalled Media Manager and several other plugins, attempted a couple of other plugins, and added a “captcha” feature to comments. I had hoped that this would prevent the amount of unmoderated [...]
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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
by Malcolm Gladwell
A very short review of a very short book (testing Media Manager).
$7.99
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I am deep into an upgrade of Movable Type and related plugins. It looks good, but I’m getting funky results when I add or update entries (I have a separate installation–which SixApart said was unnecessary, but I’m now glad I did that), so after a thorough perusal of the documentation and various Googlings, I’ve sent [...]
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This is a test of the review feature; I’ve upgraded Movable Type to 3.3 and Media Manager to 1.1.
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But where is version 1, I hear you ask. I did find version 1–the Rosebud of my macaroon recipes–but only after I had resigned myself to making Version 2, found on the Odense almond paste website. I found Version 1 because while measuring ingredients for Version 2–which I adapted from a recipe on the Odense [...]
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