Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Commoditizing the Stack
I had the opportunity to attend and present at the excellent ELAG conference last week in Bratislava, Slovakia. The event was advertised as being somewhat of a European Code4Lib, but in reality, the format seemed to me to be more in line with Access, which in my mind is a plus. Being the ugly American…
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Parsing escaped unicode in Ruby
While what I’m posting here might be incredibly obvious to anyone that understands unicode or Ruby better than me, it was new to me and might be new to you, so I’ll share. Since Ed already let the cat out of the bag about LCSubjects.org, I can explain the backstory here. At lcsh.info, Ed made…
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A URI Scheme for SuDocs
Jonathan Rochkind recently started a thread on the Code4lib mailing list asking how to register an info URI for SuDocs. Ray Denenberg responded with an explanation of the process. I won’t get into my opinions of info URIs or the merits of either side of the ensuing debate that spun out from this thread, but…
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Superpatron Hollywood Redux
Ed Vielmetti appears again on Rocketboom. Again via Twitter. Incorrectly linked from the Rocketboom page.
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In search of a bag of holding
Let me start this by saying this is not a criticism or a rant against any of the technologies I am about to mention. The problems I am having are pretty specific and the fact that I am intentionally trying to use “off the shelf” commodity projects to accomplish my goal complicates things. I realize…
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DJ for an Hour
This Thursday, February 19th, from 8–9PM EST, I’ll be a guest DJ on our local NPR affiliate, WUTC. One of their promotions during their membership drive is to be a DJ for an hour, so Selena got me that for my birthday. It’s easily one of the most exciting birthday presents I’ve ever gotten. My…
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The Omniscience of Bobst
Today in the #Code4Lib channel: [1:36pm] jrochkind_lunch: woohoo! NYU is moving forward with Umlaut. [1:40pm] edsu: nyu++ [1:41pm] mjgiarlo: jrochkind++ [1:42pm] rsinger: awesome [1:43pm] rsinger: jrochkind++ [1:43pm] jtgorman: jrochkind++ [1:43pm] charper joined the chat room. [1:43pm] rsinger: more_suckers++ [1:43pm] rsinger: oops [1:43pm] rsinger: i mean… [1:43pm] rsinger: nyu++ [1:43pm] charper left the chat room. (Client…
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I’m only here for the closures
I am not a programmer. Since I first began writing code, my approach to learning a new language has been to take something that does the sort of thing I am looking for and start fiddling, seeing the results of the fiddling (most likely through some sort of error message) and refiddle until I start…
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From the Archives
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A Day in the Life
6:41 AM: Che pooped. 6:47 AM: We realize that Mollie, our Cocker Spaniel, apparently has slept all night in our bed with a “Klingon”. Remove Klingon. 6:53 AM: Mollie, searching for bits of cat food crumbs that might have fallen on the floor, bumps into and knocks over a full-length mirror, shattering it into tiny…
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