Off the Mark

This past Friday’s (29 July 05) Daily Illini contained an AP article titled "Troops return from Iraq; mental health problems."
It reports on the results of a recent study looking at mental health issues experienced by troops returning from war zones.  It seems they had only been looking at those who had serious mental health issues [...]

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Seems I got to 200 posts without realizing it.  Guess I’ve been busy.  Like yesterday—busy doing all sorts of things like going to the Farmer’s Market, going across town for coffee beans, getting a haircut, going for a run, going grocery shopping, and then going out to eat (seared duck breast with Israeli couscous, tomato-basil [...]

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This is something I wrote last November when I was redesigning my personal website.  I had to move it from my previous school/employer’s server to the current one.  It also needed some serious updating and redesign.  It is currently live, but not really public, and theoretically at least non-spiderable. 
It’s not so hot, and still [...]

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There are so many songs and pieces of songs that are extremely meaningful to me.  This may be an intermittent featurette to highlight some of them.  I’ve been noticing a lot of "one-liners" lately that are particularly meaningful.  That is what this post was supposed to reflect, but as with many things in my life [...]

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<context> This post is in follow-up to 2 previous posts of mine and a post and comment at Biblioblatherblog. </context>
I do see how gender neutral citations can solve some issues of gender discrimination, I just don’t see how they solve most.  The problem is a whole lot larger than academic citations.  I am willing to [...]

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For some reason I really slept like crap last night.  Or maybe I should say I was awake much of the night with my mind fighting with my body as to which could do the most tossing and turning.  Woke up this morning with my throat sore like a gland on the right side was [...]

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Recommended read:
Blair, Sheila. "Toward a Code of Ethics for Cataloging." Technical Services Quarterly 23, no. 1 (2005): 13-26. [Pre-print from the Haworth Press through the UIUC Library Gateway, accessed 25 July 2005.]
I thought this was an excellent article, well worth reading.  I do have some issues with it which I’ll get to later.
ABSTRACT.  Cataloging is [...]

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Going to start listing some articles (maybe other sources in future) that I have been reading, for several possible purposes:

Record for myself.
To let others know certain things are available.
To hopefully stimulate discussion.

Discussion:
I’d be happy to discuss most any of these readings publicly, or privately, in either this forum or some other.  Maybe we can use [...]

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I stumbled over this just after making my last post:
Take the quiz: "What Kind of Soul Do You Retain?"
TorturedYou aren’t sure how to feel, and this leaves you constantly in distress about what you do and who you are. You are tortured in the fact you can’t run OR hide.

This is pretty funny since [...]

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…that is, those the doctors fed my mother before I was born so that I had to be placed in an incubator for several days (I was born on time, just a bit too high for a newborn).  Or maybe it was the fact that they couldn’t get me to church until the eighth day—cause [...]

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