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Yesterday I posted my truck, and it sold in 20 minutes. 20 minutes. No wonder the print media is losing classified ad revenue left and right to craigslist. ed. Never mind about clicking the link… I just had to remove the posting, because despite the fact that the ad said “SOLD” all over it, people…

Emory University Libraries has released Reserves Direct(2). I left for Georgia Tech during the redesign process and it far exceeds anything I could have imagined. It shares little to nothing from 0.9 (I was always too self-concious to label it a 1.x release). One of the bigger changes is that it’s now in PHP5/MySQL. PostgreSQL,…

So, last week, before I left for SMUG, Mike Rylander (of Evergreen-ILS), Joshua Ferraro (of Liblime/Koha) and I began talking about OpenSearch interfaces for our respective catalogs. The only reason I was able to really contribute to the conversation was the fact that I had my little python CGI, but I hadn’t thought much about…

So I’m sitting in the Adele K. Stamp Student Union at the University of Maryland waiting for the shuttle to take me to the Metro and the airport (and out of this hell-furnace they call D.C.) logged into their campus wireless with some username and password that got passed around at the SMUG (SFX/Metalib User’s…

When people ask me why I “retired” from acting a couple of years ago, I always tell them, “Because I don’t like other actors”. So why I decided to get back into playing music is a bit beyond me. While actors and theatre people have their constant drama and their singing songs from musicals at…

I drove to work today. Normally, I take the train, but for several stupid reasons, I decided to drive. Atlanta drivers have a disdain for “rules” and “traffic laws” that make me want to scream. They will pass you in an exit-only lane only to hold up that lane when they try to merge back…

I’ve finally managed to rewrite quite a bit of the WAGger to run in Greasemonkey, a sort of crazy swiss-army knife for Firefox. My only experience with Greasemonkey up until now was modifying Peter Binkley’s Firefox extension to work with GM (which required… nothing on my part, really). My hesitation mainly revolved around my historical…

Today, I attended GUGM 2005. GUGM stands for “GIL User’s Group Meeting”, and, unless you happen to be from the State of Georgia, you probably have no idea what that means. “GIL” stands for “GALILEO Interconnected Libraries” which is fancy name for the consortial deal the University System of Georgia has with Endeavor’s Voyager. All…

Last Thursday/Friday I decided to put my development time where my mouth is and actually try to fiddle around with A9’s Opensearch. Earlier in the week, I had told my boss that I wanted to do this and that I didn’t think it would take much time or energy. Her reaction was: What is Opensearch?…

So as Art and I continue to try to export the data from our respective Voyager catalogs to create an alternative web opac, I have been trying to formulate what such a beast should look like. We have the opportunity to make the web interface look and behave in any way we want, so there…