Month: February 2006

  • WPOPAC — a testbed by Casey Maison

    Disclaimer — these are some first impression type thoughts…dangerous, I know.  Take them for what they are…musings.  Casey Maison has been doing a lot of writing and thinking about how to make ILS systems more social — and as such, has created a testbed application using WordPress to sit ontop of their library opac.  His original post…

  • More Google & Privacy concerns

    The EFF is warning against using the new Google Desktop application because of a new option allowing users to search for documents across computers.  This feature appearently stores copies of your documents on Google servers meaning that they are just one subpena way from being read.  And while Google isn’t doing it yet, these documents…

  • More IE 7 beta thoughts

    I was suprised to see that it didn’t take Google long to put a link to the searchlet that can be installed into IE 7.  It was about time that they added that feature.  Anyway, I’ve been playing around with it for a bit and here’s what I’ve seen so far: Pros: CSS support is…

  • CONTENTdm/EAD III

    As I’ve been putting together a CONTENTdm interface to our EAD records, I’ve been using the NWDA’s website as a template…the idea being that users working within our site could start local and then move out to the regional database and still see a like interface with like functionality.  However, this has meant doing some…

  • New Nathan news

    My wife sent out a message to family — so I thought I’d repost it here.  You get enough of me talking about my boys, so I’ll give this update in her words… Hi,Just a fun little update on Nathan. He is about 17 months old now and he has really taken a liking to…

  • Develop the library’s OPAC? Maybe not…

    First, let me preface this post by noting that these are somewhat random thoughts that I’ve been rolling around in my head for the past couple of weeks…so take them for what they are. Over the past few weeks/months, the library blogshere has been doing quite a bit of chatting on Library 2.0, and ambigous…

  • Morning commute

    What a morning…two flats, one giant rip in my rear tire…thankfully I wasn’t too far from home and was able to gimp my bike back to my house. What a morning! Actually, one of the flats was my fault. When I changed the first tire, I was in a hurry and simply yanked off the…

  • Imagining the Google future

    An interesting article posted on CNNMoney called, Imagining the Google Future, looks at where Google might be taking us as we move into the future.  Essentially, a group of experts were asked the question, what will Google look between the period of 2015-2125.  Its worth the read I think. –Terry

  • Is the honeymoon over

    I wonder if the honeymoon is over for Google, at least as it relates to Wall Street. I’d never seen a company who’s value was more over inflated since its first public offering, and after missing their earnings estimates for this quarter (though, its ready why they missed them that’s even more interesting), it appears…

  • Enough with the rain already

    Living in Oregon, I’m all for a little rain but at the end of January, we’ve gotten almost a foot of rain in Salem.  A lot you say — ha, thank goodness I don’t live in Astoria.  We may get an inch of rain in a day — they get 3 and 70 mile hour…