“I said it for New York three years ago; I’ll paraphrase today: When London is bombed, we are bombed. Today, I dig in, I dig deep, and I charge back fighting just like a Briton.” — Scott M. Fulton, III, a Senior Partner at Ingenus (an editorial services firm in Indianapolis). I’m sure I speak […]
As I was heading out to the fog and friction of ALA I learned a fine young library Turk had come up with a clever idea for converting RSS feeds from My Place of Work into MARC format, for import into library catalogs. I saw a couple of issues, including the lack of coordination with […]
SFGate.com says that the UCC today voted for “same-sex marriage,” but it’s more accurate to say that over 80% of the delegates to the Synod of this traditionally liberal Protestant denomination voted for marriage equality, affirming their support for the right to marry without discrimination. “The resolution calls on member churches of the liberal denomination […]
I just upgraded this blog to Movable Type 3.17, and you may think this is a boring entry but it’s Very, Very Important, because it’s demonstrating to myself that everything works as it should. One reason I upgraded was to rule out problems with a corrupted mt-comments.cgi file or some other key Movable Type file. […]
All righty then! I have regenerated the old blog in a very minimalist format, preserving the post names and archive paths. Comments are now reenabled. Thanks again to Elise, whose directions for backing up templates were very helpful. I apologize for the too-small fonts and lack of contrast in this rather vanilla design. The MT […]
After all that shvitzing and hand-wringing about feeling guilty over applying for a scholarship to the BlogHer conference, I end up being selected as a scholar anyway. And might I add this flattering moment of meritocracy (or so I assume–don’t prick my balloon, o.k.?) pushes me to work harder to fix the problems with my […]
So, nu, I’ve schlepped my latest piece to my summer advisor, wincing over how rough it is. It’s a personal essay about military language grounded in events during Air Force Basic Training (see the end for an excerpt), and while that sounds intriguing, it needed, oh, say, about twenty more hours of serious work to […]