Computer
To my few IM buddies I will not be available the next … days. I took my laptop to the shop this afternoon. The trackpad had been locking up a lot lately, and last night the whole machine just got stoopid! I’m really worried and praying that it is still under warranty. I believe it is; but my beliefs are not exactly relevant.
I’m also pissed because I was going to do a full backup before taking it in. I have a fairly current almost complete backup, but I really would have liked to be able to just dump the whole thing to the external drive first.
They won’t even be looking at it until tomorrow. <sigh>
Life ….
You know, we’re just going to leave that one alone for now.
I have “arrived”
I guess by one scale I have finally “arrived.” I made it into American Libraries Direct for my reporting on the LC Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control meeting. I really don’t even have a problem with their claim that “Blogger Mark R. Lindner offers extensive notes on the session, which featured a controversial presentation by University of Chicago cataloger David Bade….” Some do consider it thus, although I do not.
I just really wish they had linked to the first post. It seems to me to be more like yellow journalism to link to the one post that reports on the presentation that might be considered controversial, or that they have labeled as such. It also does not help that it is the only presentation that I questioned in any true way. As it has already become abundantly clear to me, many people fail to see the labor of love and actual respect that I have for David Bade’s views in my questioning.
I wrote what I did there, and in my follow-up, because I care deeply about his message being heard and, more importantly, being understood by those who need to hear it. I fear even more will now only see my questioning. For that I am especially sorry to David Bade.
The “system” is once again poised to shut down dialogue.
Conferences
I am now officially registered for both NASIG and NASKO. Here we come June, Louisville and Toronto. Woohoo!
6 responses so far ↓
1 Christine Schwartz // May 16, 2007 at 5:29 pm
Hi Mark,
As you know I read all your posts of the WGFBC meeting very carefully. I did not see your coverage of David Bade’s presentation as overly critical, but rather in the spirit of a possible disagreement of opinions. When the two of you actually compare notes, it may be that you don’t even disagree. I value your careful posting of this meeting very much. Thanks, Chris
2 Mark // May 16, 2007 at 5:58 pm
Thanks so much for your comment, Chris! It certainly helps.
I don’t think we really have many differences; just shift a few words, mostly modal verbs and soften a few absolutes, and there you are.
3 Anna // May 18, 2007 at 2:50 pm
I really need to catch up on my liblog reading. I think I’ve gotten up to May now.
4 Mom // May 19, 2007 at 9:45 am
Congratulations!!
5 Mark // May 19, 2007 at 10:44 am
I know the feeling well, Anna. I generally try to keep the new things down in the aggregator, but that just leads to me marking the interesting looking things as “Keep alive” and then those add up into the multiple 1000s. Clearly NOT doable.
6 Mark // May 19, 2007 at 10:46 am
Thanks, Mom. I’m assuming this was for the “arriving” bit. I’m honestly fairly ambivalent about it, though. It’s nice in some ways, and not in others. But such is life.