Month: June 2008

  • ALA Notes — Running in Anaheim

    Since ALA seems to shutdown around noon so folks can go and get some lunch, I decided to try my hand at getting a little run in before heading back.  I’ve tried running in California before (mostly San Francisco), and the number of people and cars always foil me.  I’m use to my afternoon runs…

  • MarcEdit 5.x update

    I’ve made a few updates that fix a few things with the MARCEngine COM object as well as the Tab Delimited wizard.  The big changes are to the MarcEngine.  I’m slowly starting to roll a few changes into the application that will eventually be used for UniMARC conversions.  Also, I’ve made some changes to the…

  • Sometimes, my wife must think she has 3 children 🙂

    The pictures say it all right?  We decided to have a little fun before father’s day.  We’ll see how long our new hair cuts last (though, I’ll probably keep my at least for one day of work) :)  But it was a lot of fun cutting them.  🙂   –TR     I always close…

  • MarcEdit 5.x updated and available again

    Took a little longer than I thought it would, but I’ve uploaded a new version of MarcEdit that corrects the parsing error.  It took a little longer partly because the problem only occurred when dealing with 15 characters.  Also, I’ve added a new way of rendering the MarcEditor.  When rendering large Unicode files, the loading…

  • Wii Fit

    The people at Nintendo must be geniuses, because their most recent “game”, the Wii Fit, shows off everything that is cool about their console.  I have a Wii — we got it for the boys (ha!) and I love the game play.  I love the simplified controllers, the interactive nature of the games — and…

  • Oops…MarcEdit 5.x build suspended (temporarily)

    *Updated:*  Did a little more testing and this problem is related to characters not in the MARC8 character map (those broken in the MARC8 mnemonic that look like, for example: {88} or {89}.  These will translate to ? on the way back rather than keeping this character.  So, for most folks, you’d never see this…

  • MarcEdit 5.x Update

    I’ve been doing a little bit of MarcEdit work, refining a few of the function to try to make the program a little smarter when it comes to doing what users are actually wanting to do, rather than what they are asking to do.  One case in point — if a user has a set…

  • MarcEdit OCLC Connexion Plugin Updated

    For those using this — I’ve figured out how to get the Access connection to behave better, so now if you will be able to extract as many records as you need to edit and expect all updates to occur.  Prior, the plug-in would occasionally error out and an handful of records wouldn’t get changed…