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Thursday, October 31st, 2002

Personality test

MASTERMIND = SIAT (Submissive Introvert Abstract Thinker)

Like just 8% of the population you are a MASTERMIND (SIAT). You can be silent and withdrawn, but behind your reserved exterior lies an active mind that allows you to analyze situations and come up with creative, unexpected solutions. Normal people call this “scheming.” Don’t learn German. (oops!)

Anyway, your sense of style and originality are your strengths, and people will respect your judgment once they get to know you. If you learn to be a little more personable, you could be a great leader–you’ve definitely got the “vision” thing down. Just make sure all the plotting you do behind those eyes of yours is healthy.

Leader?! But then you have to deal with people! That’s what Minions are for! :wink

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Yet another update

There was another new update for Movable Type for me to install and now I’m testing to see if I screwed anything up.

Ben and Mena work too fast! :wink

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Tuesday, October 29th, 2002

commuter’s tales

And I thought I was having some bad days lately.

On the way home at rush hour, during the traffic report, they announced that there was a car going eastward on west-bound I-40.

I miss all the fun going overland. :lol

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still working

on the website. You know Frontpage’s code *really* sucks when the easiest way to clean it is to copy the text from the displayed page and code from scratch.

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Thursday, October 24th, 2002

We’re having fun, right?

I’m helping a friend redo her site with CSS, which involves cleaning up the code some (must resist urge to let validation nazi loose- she doesn’t want it :smile)

Her earlier pages aren’t bad, she did them by hand back when the Internet was young.

Her latest pages in Frontpage?

Find and Replace is my friend.

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Wednesday, October 23rd, 2002

It doesn’t seem to be ending…

The bad luck I mean, I just talked with Lois and the director is determined to have a faculty person in that position. He’s terrified that she’s going to leave and the library will fall apart if there isn’t a trained replacement ready and waiting. Which is true, but you notice how he isn’t even concerned about why she may want to leave?

I may have mentioned before what a joke this guy is. He isn’t a librarian, he doesn’t care about the library or the people who work here. He just wants to sit in his office and not be bothered. No one who works here wants to deal with him so the library is spiralling down the drain, torn apart by infighting and apathy.

And I’m stuck here for another 18 months. yay.

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and on the way home…

from work last night, the radio didn’t announce the accident until I was already trapped behind it.

On the other hand, I saw a great bumpersticker:

“I love my country, but I fear my government.”

It works on so many levels.

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Tuesday, October 22nd, 2002

Time’s relativity

first, I can forget about my new cell phone because the rebate offer has expired. I didn’t get it before the rebate expired because the idiot phone company took so long to tell me what I had to do.

Second, my advisor has taken so long to get back to me that it’s too late to set up a practicum for next semester. :violent

Luckily for him, there are 2 classes that I’m interested in next semester, or I might have gone postal on him. I had hoped that a different advisor might be more helpful. It’s rediculous, I started this stuff the first week of the semester!

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Thursday, October 17th, 2002

Sun Portal

I’ve posted a new layout called Sun Portal. It’s a layout for those index pages with only a little text and a list of links.

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Sun Portal

I’ve posted a new layout called Sun Portal.

It’s a layout for those index pages with only a little text and a list of links. I had to use a hack for the footer in IE/Mac, it doesn’t look as nice as the other browsers but it’s ok. The layout collapses pretty well at smaller resolutions (800×600 or less). I’ve made sure that the important stuff(navigation, text) overlaps the less important (footer, background image) so that it’s still usable.

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Digital copyright

Digital copyright is a big story right now but to the uninvolved the unfamiliar terms make it hard to understand. The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions has a great explanation on how the new copyright rules will hurt libraries and The Shifted Librarian has a very nice summary.

My question- How do these companies expect to keep making money in the long-run when they’ve lost the trust of the content creators, created an active dislike in the content buyers, and been made redundant by new methods of content delivery?

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Tuesday, October 15th, 2002

SQL, PHP, Mark’s new site, Librarians and CSS

I’ve updated my Weblinks section.

There is a section on PHP and SQL on my Code page
I had a link to a website with some excellent Photoshop tutorials but the owner took them down , I suppose for inclusion in his book. I have found another website that has pdf versions of the tutorials, I believe with permission. Both sites are listed under Graphics
I removed a link to the now defunct “New Breed Librarians” site and added one on open-source software for Librarians
And finally, only a couple of links on Cascading Style Sheets, one on styling horizontal rules, and a 3-column layout with a header and a footer.

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Another “Me too”

Notes toward an application essay Since Dorothea doesn’t have comments enabled :tongue, I’ll have to respond here. :biggrin

I should start off by explaining that I’m going into my third year of library school (part-time, ALA accredited, completely online!). Her reasons for going are very similar to mine, although she knows a lot more technologically than I did going in.

I’m learning the “big picture” she talks about, what information is (no one has ever developed a widely- accepted definition), the forms it takes and it’s management.

I thought I knew a few things about database searching until I took a class on it (Looking forward to the advanced one.). And I worship Henriette D. Avram (she headed up the team that developed the MARC record).

But I’m not learning what I had hoped to learn. There are very few technology courses offered in my program and I’m having a hard time finding an advisor interested enough to help me structure a series of independent studies and practicums (work-studies) to get the technology concentration this same faculty said was available when I started the program. What is available is heavily centered on public libraries and children’s librarianship.

It’s been a tough road and at this point I’ve lost all interest in it. The only thing that keeps me going is the fear of being a quitter and the certain knowledge of how much better my job prospects (no matter what the area) are with that single piece of paper. I very much doubt I will ever go back for a doctorate. Hopefully, Dorothea’s program will be better for what she wants.

On a brighter note, her mention of being a “jack-of-all-trades” made think of one of my favorite pages,Thwart not the Librarian!, I’ve never been so tempted to buy a t-shirt. :lol

If you are interested in library news and haven’t seen LibraryPlanet.com, I have to recommend it.

Oh, and nobody has figured out how to organize a website effectively. :wink

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Friday, October 11th, 2002

upgrade

I’ve updated to Movable Type 2.5. I think it went well. I had trouble keeping track of which files had been modded to transfer the mods over but it seems to be working well.

Let me know if something is wrong.

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