Saturday, February 4, 2006
Gmail text ads in my spam folder:
Spam Fajitas – Serves 8, add extra salsa if desired
Spam Breakfast Burritos – Bake 5-10 minutes, serve with salsa
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Wednesday, December 7, 2005
I don’t know anyone who thinks they do enough professional reading. I frequently hear colleagues bemoaning the stacks of articles collecting dust on their desks, in manila folders, or on their bookshelves. By contrast, I know many people who use Bloglines to read blogs and news sites regularly, if not daily. Of [...]
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Tuesday, November 22, 2005
From Librarian Avengers:
I can see why the process of creating web accessibility guidelines is so difficult. The perspectives involved are broad and often divergent. This isn’t like web standards, where you can just close your tags and call it good. Real people will be discriminated against if you screw up. The responsibility is sobering.
And actually, [...]
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Thursday, November 3, 2005
So I have to write up some professional goals for my tenure packet, which I started working on today. Unfortunately, all the goals I could think of off the top of my head didn’t really seem appropriate for a document that will eventually go to the University President, never mind the JPC. So [...]
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Turns out the happy ending in my previous post was not so happy after all. My computer is off getting a cure for “catastrophic hardware failure,” which is why it’s so quiet here it at BiblioTech.
Meanwhile, I got a week behind on my Bloglines reading. Now that I’m catching up I [...]
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Heed these words. I just spent the last 24 hours coaxing my computer to give me something–anything–other than the “prohibitory sign,” as the Apple website so euphemistically calls it. I yearned for the bomb (remember the bomb?), the flashing question mark, anything other than something that reminded me of cigarettes and Ghostbusters. [...]
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Now that’s innovation! Did I mention it’s caffeinated beer?Wired article
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scilib chica has tagged me (sort of).Total volume of music on my Mac1978 songs, 5.5 days, 7.39 GB
Last CD purchasedLittle Sparrow::Dolly Parton
Last album purchased at iTunesAmerican Idiot::Green Day
Song playing when I started this entryIsland of Time::Patty Larkin
Song playing right nowNullarbor Song::Kasey Chambers
Five songs I listen to a lot 1. Wagon Wheel::Old Crow Medicine Show2. The [...]
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This is slightly off-topic, but I have to gush. Now that iTunes offers a podcast directory, it is even easier to download podcasts to your desktop (or iPod of course) and listen at your own convenience. Since I’ve lived and worked in Binghamton, I’ve mourned the absence–or ungodly hours–of some of my favorite [...]
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