Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I’ve never been one for chain letters. I don’t generally like to impose myself on others (I don’t even like to call people on the phone on account of this… let’s call it a ‘phobia’), so the thought of dragging others into the chain to find more people to drag into the chain seems like…
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The One for the Thumb
I have been a Pittsburgh Steelers fan for a long time. I don’t claim to have been cognizant of all of their Superbowl victories (although I was actually alive for all of them), I have always been a Pittsbugh Steelers fan (which, for a kid growing up in suburban Philadelphia was as popular as Benedict…
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The Librarian/Staff Divide
Every library I have worked at has had an uneasy caste system between the faculty and staff. While I understand this to extent, this delineation is used without rhyme or reason much of the time. The implication is that this means the librarians are treated as “career professionals” and the staff is merely “the help”…
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Ruh-ropenurl Raggy
Ed Summers has been helping me write an OpenURL library for Ruby. Preliminary work available on Ed’s “business in front” site via svn. Note, I am very new to Ruby, so these are probably not terribly well written.
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That Article I Had No Business Writing…
Is finally out. So, uh, if you’re in the market to buy a Link Resolver or just are seeking general information on one… er, check it out.
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On unAPI
After arguing with Dan for hours on how to implement unAPI, I decided to take him up on his request and implement an unAPI service for our OPAC. This way I would have some real world experience to back up my bitching. So, here you go. This script takes our SRU to OpenSearch services for…
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Suck on this, Diebold
All in all, I’ve been pretty unhelpful in the coordination of Code4Lib 2006. Those that know me know I’m not terribly organized and horribly forgetful, so I knew it wasn’t in anybody’s best interest for me to commit to much. With that, I felt it best if I was involved with the proposal submission/vetting process.…
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Time to start polishing off my helmet for the playoff run
No, that’s not a euphemism for anything. Pittsburgh’s dominance in the first quarter was so complete that it produced some almost unbelievable stats. In the opening period, the Steelers outgained the Browns 196-1; had 162 passing yards to minus-2 for Cleveland; and led in first downs 9-0. (from espn.com) Bring it on, y’all.
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To Free or not to Free?
Last week I was reading Dorothea Salo’s posting about OCLC’s report on library branding, and it got me to thinking about this a bit. In particular, I thought about her comment: I would want to trial-balloon a “Deep Web” play in my next survey, if I were OCLC. I would want to know how many…
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Rails Resolver Router: on Rails!
Since my foray into python a couple of months ago, I’ve been enjoying branching out into new languages. I had pitched the concept of a link resolver router for the state universal catalog to a committee I sit on (this group talks about SFX links in the 856 tag and whatnot). The problem with making…
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