Off the Mark

I have had no internets at home since about 7 PM last night (Thu) and the soonest a technician can come is Tuesday. FIVE days is completely unacceptable!
Last night we had a lovely Spring storm in which it was raining so hard that I could not hear the movie I was trying to watch. So [...]

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I wrote about this once before (last July) when it had begun but now the major announcement has gone out. If I hadn’t already known about it I would be downright giddy!
The University Library has digitized the following publication series from the Graduate School of Library and Information Science:
Allerton Park Institute Proceedings (1954-1997) [502 [...]

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This is going to be kind of weird but I don’t know what else to do.
Andrea Mercado of LibraryTechtonics has a new post, Article in Conversants. Recommended, by the way.
I read her post and then her article, Making library schools smarter. Conversants is using CommentPress which I am happy to see, but until [...]

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Atlanta’s a distant memory
Montgomery a recent blur
and Tulsa burns on the desert floor
like a signal fire
I got Willie on the radio
a dozen things on my mind
and number one is fleshing out
these dreams of mine
Cowboy Junkies — 200 More Miles
A little over a week ago I wrote to a handful of those I consider myself [...]

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Last Sunday, a friend of mine—Jodi Schneider (Science Library Specialist, Amherst College)—and I gave a presentation on Zotero: Manage Citations, Make Bibliographies & Join the Web of Data to the ASIST@UIUC Student Group. [LEEP On Campus Weekend was last week.]
We kept the presentation pretty low-key, not a lot of prep work—couple hours each. We made [...]

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A couple of months ago it was announced that NetNewsWire was now free for individuals. I saw this news in a few places and read some high praise for it in those and other places. Having been fed up with the assorted problems Bloglines has been having for quite a while now, I decided to [...]

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Sunday, 17 Feb 2008
 
Decker, S. et al. 2000. The Semantic Web: the roles of XML and RDF. Internet Computing, IEEE 4, no. 5:63-73.
 

For Ontology Development.

 
Monday - Friday, 18 - 22 Feb 2008
 
 
Harris, Roy, and Indian Institute of Advanced Study. 2003. History, Science, and the Limits of Language : an Integrationist Approach. Shimla: Indian Institute of [...]

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Today has been a fairly laid-back day. Considering.
I got up at 10-ish and have been on slow ever since. Pauline & Kathryn’s class was having a reading day and I decided to forego more Protégé work this evening in Allen’s class. We will be doing more next week.
So I have been giving myself a [...]

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Update 13 Feb 08 late afternoon: I have my email address, etc. back. It seems that my crime was that I was receiving too much spam. Yes; receiving and not sending.
I guess shutting down the accounts of people who get maybe 40 spam/day [that gets past any ISP filtering; and always goes into the [...]

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I have two lazy web requests.
Online job applications
I am in the process of filling out my first fully online job application and it is not pleasant for so many reasons. Complaining is not my point here, though.
The main issues are that in several places there is not enough room to add the information I need [...]

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