Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Üpdate
It’s been a while since I’ve written anything about the ümlaut. It’s been a while since I’ve written about anything, really. Lots of reasons for that: been frantically trying to pull the ümlaut together in time to launch for fall semester, and I’ve got this little bit of business going on… Still, it’s probably time…
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Why Dan is wrong (and, yet, totally right)
Dan has written (twice now) about the ‘ILS Bill of Rights’ and its complete lack of perspective. He’s right in his equation (or lack thereof) of the OPAC to “Free Speech” and “lack of Government Oppression regarding which religion I choose”; however, I disagree with him about the ability to be able to freely change…
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ELUNAmating
This is really the first time I’ve gotten to sit down and write since I got back from the first annual ELUNA (Ex Libris Users, North America) Conference earlier this week in Knoxville, TN. I made a presentation on the umlaut (and I’ll go into that a bit later), but, in general, I really enjoy…
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A little dog, named ‘Snuggles’
One of the cool things about having our TiVo hooked up our (really crappy) broadband connection (no thanks to you, Comcast) is the seemingly random shit that just comes to us. Yesterday I was, on a whim, flipping through the TiVo menus and I saw that I could subscribe to Rocketboom on it. On an…
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Indexing the OPAC to suit our users’ needs
This may be the first implementation of the (proposed) openurl context set for cql. MARC field 490 $v, y’all. Granted, the openurl context set might not be approved (or might change radically), but I think this shows a compelling use case.
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OMG! 1+z fu11 0f b10gg3rZ!
The ‘biblioblogosphere’ expands exponentially.
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Explosive Diaereses
I’ve been waiting for a while to have this title. Well, actually, not a long while, and that’s testimony to how quickly I’m able to develop things in Rails. While I think SFX is fine product and we are completely and utterly dependent upon it for many things, it does still have its shortcomings. It…
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Beware, Birds of Valhalla: Fern [1993-2/26/2006], R.I.P.
Sorry to say, Mr. Eliot, but you’re an idiot. February is the cruelest month, by far. Fern was my first dependent, my college cat. I got her for my twenty-first birthday from Knoxville’s Adopt-a-pet. The index card taped to the wall read: name: Candace quote: “I don’t like these other cats. Take me home!” And…
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Safe and sound at home
I had to leave Code4lib 2006 early, and to all there that were concerned — things are ok here (but it’s good I came home). I cannot believe how well the conference went and having read some posts about day three, it seems like it ended great. I’m already looking forward to next year.
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Opa (y’all)!
Code4lib 2006 day 1 went exceedingly well. Much better than I had expected (only because I am one of the “organizers”), in fact. I was nervous about starting off with a “virtual keynote” (PINES, literally, just phoned in their presentation), especially since I was the goob that had to advance their PPT when they made…
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