habitually probing generalist

N.B. This post is long overdue. I have written it into other posts for several months now but then never finished them.
This is for the possibly two of you who have not seen my wonderful news on facebook, friendfeed, Twitter or heard it in person or via email.
As of a mid-October 2009 evening I am [...]

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The What
Wednesday afternoon I posted the following to my facebook status:
I have recently instituted a personal goal of trying to catch up with at least 1 interesting person a week (or so) just to see what’s rockin’ their (LIS) world, whether there are any areas of overlapping interest, if we can challenge/cheer each other on [...]

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Twice in the last week I have been disappeared from assorted campus directories.
Recently the Library debuted a new website for staff, including a new personnel directory. The personnel directory is available in 3 versions (that I noticed): Faculty by name, Staff by name, and by Department. I was in the old directory. I have been [...]

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29 January is the 5th anniversary of my public blogging. I had a Bloglines private blog for about 9 days before I got fed up with its lack of capabilities. That 1st proto-blog was called In My Secret Life… via Leonard Cohen.
The 1st public-facing blog debuted on 29 January 2005 at bookmark.typepad.com and was called [...]

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In my recent Books Read in 2009 post I talked a bit about what I read last yea and a few other aspects of reading. In this post I want to touch on a few other issues, some of which are orthogonal ways of looking at what I read last year; so partially an update, [...]

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Most of these are new to me, but a few are venerable classics that I got to share with Sara for the first time [Stop Making Sense] or that we got to see together in the theater [The Shining]. Many movies I watched are not on this list because I have seen them before. As [...]

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Not sure what any of this means, or why, it is, or if, of importance. Much can be seen of my book reading habits over the last 3 years at this blog [see links at end of post]. According to previous posts, it looks like another banner year in the Lindner household for book reading. [...]

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In Vancouver, BC for ASIST 2009 Annual Meeting: Thriving on Diversity: Information Opportunities in a Pluralistic World.
Today is the 20th SIG-CR (Classification Research) Workshop: Bridging Worlds, Connecting People: Classification Transcending Boundaries.
1st session, which I’m in now, is titled: Crossing Cultural Boundaries: Indigenous Knowledge Organization. Moderator: Hope Olson. Papers are: Language, Text and Knowledge Organization: One [...]

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Change of blog name
I have changed the name of my blog. Again. This time it should not break any of the Internet nor should you need to change feeds; I hope.
3 years ago tomorrow I moved my blog to Wordpress and renamed it Off the Mark. This was after a few years of blogging at [...]

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He’s incommunicado
No comment to make
He’s saying nothing at all
Yeah but in the communique
You know he’s gonna come clean
…
[Communique - Dire Straits]
Seems I don’t have much to say anymore. We’ve all read of the death of blogging. The move to Friendfeed and Twitter. XYZ.
None of those are entirely true. I have plenty to say and a [...]

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