Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Well, that was strange
I was watching one of the Rocketbooms my TiVo recorded for me, when I noticed that Joanne Colan “Twitters” with Ed Vielmetti. Apparently Superpatron‘s gone Hollywood.
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In search of… Bigfoot
Before I left for Guatemala, Ian Davis at Talis asked if I could give him a dump of our MARC records to load into Talis Platform. I had been talking in the #code4lib channel about how I was pushing the idea of using Talis Source to make simple, ad-hoc union catalogs; we could make one…
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A proposal to Endeavor Voyager customers
If YPOW, like MPOW, is an Endeavor Voyager site, you’ve got some decisions ahead. Francisco Partners, naturally, would like you to migrate to Aleph, and I have no doubt that Ex Libris is, as I write this, busily working on a means to make that easy for Voyager libraries to do. But ILS migrations are…
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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…
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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…
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Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain
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YYZ
At the beginning of the month, I gave two presentations at the Ontario Library Association’s SuperConference. I had a good time. My first time to Toronto and it snowed. Although, with all due respect, Mr. Lee, YYZ totally sucked. My presentations were: Librarian’s Lib: Taking control of what’s ours The Communicat: contribute to the collective…
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To build or to modify
I readily admit that I have a bit of a NIH problem. A lot of this is laziness (hey, it’s a lot of work to figure out how somebody’s code works) coupled with the fact that I write fast married to the dilemma of if I modify this program to meet our needs, what happens…
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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…
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Ãœps
Argh.  I’ve recently migrated to using Opera on our desktop at home (long story, but basically the experiment with Ubuntu didn’t go over well; we went back to Windows; and IE7 is too slow to be considered useful in any capacity.  And Selena uses Firefox.).  While in the middle of a long post about how…
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