habitually probing generalist

I am of the last week having issues commenting on some of my own posts. This is the message I receive: Forbidden You don’t have permission to access /blog/wp-comments-post.php on this server. One of these was from February (just now), but the other was from last week. I am not trying to put in any [...]

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Jeremy & Sara, Christmas 1984, Dour, Belgium Originally uploaded by broken thoughts. This “little” boy is 27 today. He has now been taller than his Dad for over half of his life. Happy Birthday, Jer. I miss you! Love, Dad

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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 [...]

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Note: I really struggled with this post and almost decided to trash it except for letting people know that they should not take my misconstrual of David Bade’s words as I had. But I spoke with someone whose opinion I value this afternoon and was reminded that I am at least trying to engage in [...]

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Some of these need doing almost immediately—perhaps my time wouldst be better spent working on one of them—and some more in the future but preferably or necessarily before Fall semester begins. So, in no particular order and missing a few…. Blog posts: LC Working Group notes Andrew Bird album/concert review Hope Olson comments/review Pay bills [...]

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I was quite disappointed with the amount [not the quality] of public testimony. I did not work up anything to say as I figured that there would be many people far more “qualified” than me jostling for room at the microphone. Sadly, that was not the case. The 3 hours set aside for public testimony [...]

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Jennifer Bowen – Head of Cataloging, University of Rochester, and of one the co-principal investigators on the eXtensbile Catalog (XC) project Recently stepped down as the American Library Association representative to the Joint Steering Committee for the Revision of Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules; i.e., RDA. [Arrived back from lunch a few minutes late and thus missed [...]

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Jane Greenberg – Associate Professor at UNC SILS; AMeGA project (automatic metadata generation); Director of UNC Metadata Research Center <MRC> “Structures and Standards for Bibliographic Data” Discussed current research and the current issue of CCQ, which she co-edited, “Knitting the Semantic Web” Sees Bade and Hillmann not on different planets, but as part of a [...]

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Diane Hillmann – Research Librarian, Cornell University, Olin Library, also LITA Standards Coordinator “Structures and Standards for Our Bibliographic Future” [ppt] Before I begin, let me say “thank you” to Diane Hillmann for archiving and making her presentation available. And since she has, I highly suggest people have a look. Kathryn’s and my notes are [...]

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Sunday, 6 May 2007 Ingwersen, Peter and Peter Willett. “An Introduction to Algorithmic and Cognitive Approaches for Information Retrieval.” Libri 45 (3/4), Sep/Dec 1995:160-177. Cited by Radford, Gary P. and Marie L. Radford. “Structuralism, Post-Structuralism, and the Library: de Saussure and Foucault.” Journal of Documentation 61 (1) 2005: 60-78. DOI 10.1108/00220410510578014 Read back in late [...]

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