Day: September 11, 2006

  • Kenny’s first day at school

    A milestone for Kenny (seems we are having a few at the house lately) — it was his first day at kindergarten.  He’s been so, so, so excited about today.  Last week we went in and met his teacher and his teacher got to see first hand how much hard work Kenny has been doing with…

  • Daily commute

    I’ve been playing with the Microsoft Live Writer and have been itching to include a map into one of my posts.  So here’s a good one.  Here’s a map of my daily commute — 50 miles, round-trip down hwy. 99.  It’s actually a fantastic ride — with mostly courteous drivers (till you hit Corvallis anyway) —…

  • ruby-oai and processing metadata elements

    Since modifying the ruby-oai module to work with libxml — I’ve found extracting the data from “metadata” to be much easier.  And the nice part — using libxml, I was able to do an initial metadata harvest from 4 collections in under 10 seconds.  Here’s the code from the harvesting component — see below. –TR…