Archive for February, 2006

in-transit updates

Friday, February 24th, 2006

In no particular order. . .
Remember how my computer died last month? Well, yesterday it did it again. Thanks to some words of advice and encouragement from Jessamyn, who I know has had similar problems, I was able to speak calmly but firmly to the nice people at Apple and explain that I […]

carnival time

Monday, February 20th, 2006

Last week gave us Carnival of the Infosciences #24 at Grumpator (what a great name!) and today Mark brings us Carnival of the Infosciences #25.
Good stuff in both–check them out if you haven’t already.
The nature of the Carnival is that submissions wax and wane.  There’s no discernable pattern to this that I can see, but […]

four things

Sunday, February 12th, 2006

I don’t do 43 Things, but I’m happy to do four things–I was, in fact, going to consider myself tagged by Mark, but then I got tagged by Heidi–such riches!  I have adapted the categories to some extent and excluded video games, which I do not play (I know–I dare to conisder myself a teen […]

(net) freedom now!

Friday, February 10th, 2006

Well, after announcing to the world at large (or at any rate to readers of this blog) that I’d be attending Michael Stephens’s presentation at Dominican, I promptly forgot to go. This is as good an argument as any for why I still keep a paper calendar–when I actually write things down in it, […]

goodbye ivory tower, almost

Monday, February 6th, 2006

I stopped by Dominican last week to take care of some paperwork and retrieve the lock from my locker, and it occurred to me that, quite possibly, I might never set foot on campus again. Dominican is slated to start offering online courses in the summer (I can’t find any documentation on this using […]

the carnival of laughter

Monday, February 6th, 2006

Carnival of the Infosciences #23 is up at The Laughing Librarian. Go. Laugh. Learn.
Then go outside, run in circles, stare at the sun for a bit, turn the music up loud, or whatever else it is that you do to keep sane, lest you, like me, start having dreams in which the […]

technical difficulties and technostalgia

Wednesday, February 1st, 2006

There are a few kinks still to work out with this move to WordPress.  (Part of me wonders if this is not just What I Get for trying to implement a content management system the inner workings of which I do not really understand. . . .)  Anyway, as one astute commenter noted earlier, the […]

what you can learn at the carnival

Wednesday, February 1st, 2006

Check out Carnival of the Infosciences #22 at What I Learned Today. Among other things I learned: Google is no replacement for a good translator. Enjoy!
Next week’s Carnival is at The Laughing Librarian, where there is an amusing list of suggested topics for your blogging pleasure.