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Thursday, September 28, 2006
After all the stewing and stressing, HDTV turned out to be an good life upgrade, and for you CSI-type fans, there’s nothing quite like seeing mummified body parts in excruciating detail to make a purchase worthwhile. It’s all way easier than it seems, HDMI and all. Your mileage may vary–quite a bit–but this is what […]
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Wednesday, September 27, 2006
The search engine at My Place Of Work just got upgraded to a neat new product. We had lots of good effort from Siderean (the search engine company) and Community Servers (our CMS folks). We’re not done–on our immediate glitch list is spell-check, which mysteriously stopped working after the switch-over; synonyms, which need one more […]
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Friday, September 22, 2006
ALA Online Communities Login Page Originally uploaded by freerangelibrarian. The ALA “online communities” website tried hard to discourage me from logging in, but I foxed it and figured it out anyway. “IMIS ID?” That’s internal staff language at ALA. How about “membership number?” How about a tool to remind me of my membership number, which […]
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Saturday, August 19, 2006
The Comcast 2.0 Experience Originally uploaded by freerangelibrarian. The best part of household moves: dealing with utility services. “Corinne” hung up on me without answering my question. Oh, the arrogance of virtual hegemony. I can’t order cable until the previous owners cancel. I can’t even order broadband until they’ve done our cable installation (even though […]
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Thursday, August 17, 2006
Trip Itinerary Originally uploaded by freerangelibrarian. For today’s lunchtime post I bring you… the trip itinerary! We’re staying at two places we’ve enjoyed: the surprisingly comfortable Wigwam Motel in Holbrook and at the Big Texan in Amarillo, where we watched a man try to eat a 72-ounce steak. The other places I’m still working on…I’m […]
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Another moment of Vendor Luv. For several years I’ve ordered items for MPOW through CDWG (the government arm of CDW). It’s a particularly sweet deal for MPOW, because they do a great job of handling split shipments, essential when I have to get seven identical items to seven distributed MPOW-ers. There’s a guy there named […]
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Dump Mel Originally uploaded by freerangelibrarian. Mel Gibson is featured on an ALA Read Poster. The American Library Association has clear anti-discrimination policies. We’ve known about his homophobia for years, but not taken action. Will we also tolerate his anti-Semitism? Let’s get this “Read” poster removed from ALA’s graphics store. Mel Gibson’s example doesn’t belong […]
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Michael’s LTR Cover Originally uploaded by mstephens7. You can buy individual copies of Library Technology Reports, and this issue on social software and libraries is a good one to buy if you aren’t subscribed to the series. Michael is a clear writer whose approach to library services is always very practical and user-centric. If you […]
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I have several vendors I seriously heart, but I’m almost dizzy at the experience I had with our new search engine vendor this morning. I must be hallucinating some of the things I heard… (Technical note: they are handling most of the implementation, as my CMS folk are not search people. We’re doing it as […]
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