Dilettante's Ball

Category: About me

  • New Year, New Leaf

    I realize I’ve been extremely quiet for the last several months (probably around the time I left Tech for Talis). While there are a slew of reasons for this (holidays, settling into new job, trying to shore up some projects, writing some articles, family, etc.), I’ve let it get out of hand. One of the…

  • Champions, We are the

    Since my omission of my job title in my last post has piqued peoples’ curiosity, here you all go. At Talis, I will be known as: Interoperability and Open Standards Champion There.  It’s out there.  (I can hear you snickering)

  • Taking off the yellow jacket

    As of October 1st, I will no longer be working for Georgia Tech. I turned in my notice on Thursday morning. On October 15th, I’ll starting the next stage of my life with Talis. My job title embarrasses me a bit, so I’m not going to put it here, but my job centers around interoperability,…

  • Bringing up baby

    Well, we’re home. Things are going well. Guatemala was a lot of waiting… waiting for Che, waiting for the U.S. Embassy, waiting for his visa, waiting around the hotel, waiting for the airport, waiting in the airport, waiting to land, waiting at customs and immigration… He is wonderful, though, and we’re really enjoying things right…

  • Che4Lib

    While the Lucene Preconference is starting, Selena and I will be working our way towards the airport to catch our flight to Guatemala City. As Karen Schneider delivers her opening keynote, we’ll be at the U.S. Embassy in Guatemala getting Isaac Mario Singer-Seymour’s passport signed. During the slot that I was supposed to speak about…

  • Excuses, Excuses

    Given our exciting news about Che, I will not be attending Code4Lib 2007.  It’s unclear whether or not we’ll be in Guatemala during the actual conference or just returned (I suppose there’s an outside chance that we won’t have gone, yet, but let’s not think about that), but I might as well give up my…

  • Upgrading my environment

    I have been trying out some new technologies, both at work and at home.  Now, this is unusual for me.  I don’t generally like environmental change in my workspace– I get hung up on it and have a difficult time focusing. This all started with getting set up with Synergy 2.  For a while, my…

  • “I dropped my pick”

    Library Geeks #4 is out. I’m back (instead of being the ‘Poltergeek’ of episode 3), and Dan set this one up in kind of a neat way. He certainly leads and guides the dialogue, but it’s much more of a roundtable and informal discussion. No doubt this is largely due to the fact we’re all…

  • Mission Haiku

    Our Talis Mashup Competition entry did not win. Sorry Art. Always a bridesmaid Never a bride. Second place is first place loser. To: OCLC From: rsinger@gatech The check’s in the mail.

  • Pödcäst

    Dan Chudnov “interviewed” me about the Ãœmlaut for the first “Library Geeks”. It’s crude and show obvious signs of “learning as we’re going”, but if you want to hear more about the Ãœmlaut from my voice and hear my favorite curse word (and boy is it a doozy), take a listen. Note the “3-2-1″ at…