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  • Info pumpkin lives

    Well, apparently my info pumpkin was good enough for 2nd place in our pumpkin carving contest at work.  They got a much cleaner picture than I originally did, so I’ll post it here.  For those of you that don’t speak MARC, the pumpkin is a jack-o-lantern with the MARC record of the Great Pumpkin Charlie…

  • University fundraising campaigns

    Wow — I was reading MSNBC today and found an article from Newsweek on higher education fundraising campaigns.  4 billion dollar campaigns…wow.  OSU is looking at doing a fundraising campaign — though our goals are much more modest — I believe the last stated goal was somewhere in the 400 million dollar range.  Still lots…

  • Around the world in 80 documents

    Steven Daniel, Readex Steven’s sessions have become a bit of a tradition at the Digital institute.  Steven’s presentations over the last 3 years have show some of the depth and kind of research that can be done using the Readex serial set.  Actually, I remember talking to him last year after his interesting talk on…

  • State of US basketball

    This will be my off topic rant of the week.  I think its from the lack of sleep, but ugh — I stayed up late last night to watch the US basketball team again, look like a bunch of posers on the world stage.  A lot of folks will say that the team underachieved.  I…

  • Native RSS Support in CONTENTdm (kindof) 🙂

    Updated: Fixed a couple of typos below Updated two: Thanks to Josh Kline for pointing out that the PubDate wasn’t RFC 822 complient. This has been updated. About a year ago, I created an RSS generator for CONTENTdm.  At the time, CONTENTdm really didn’t have an API that could be worked with, so in building…

  • Summer of home improvement

    Seems that we have been doing a bit more home improvement jobs this summer than I’d originally thought I would.  Of course, the bigest improvement that we made this year was putting in wood floors — but we’ve been slowly upgrading a number of components in the house.  Today however, was an unplanned improvement.  I…

  • The wonderful world of skype

    So today I entered the wonderful world of skype.  Love it.  If anyone has a desire to chat and use skype, my skype name is reese_terry. –TR

  • Looking for McDonald’s Lightening McQueen

    I have a bit of a request.  My boys love the Cars movie, toys, ect. and we ate at McDonalds until we were able to get the little Red Lightening McQueen car.  Well, last night, the boys left their car ourside and our puppy apparently liked the car as well, because she chewed it up. …

  • Qwest customer service — the 8th circle of hell

    Agh — I thought I’d taken care of this last month.  Earlier this year, I’d signed up for Qwest DSL.  It was great — we finally had high speed and for the ~8 months I was with them, their service was exactly what I paid for.  However, our little city of Independence, OR laid their…

  • Shuttle Discovery Takes flight

    Shuttle launch days are exciting days around our house.  I love watching the shuttle launch.   And my boys love it as well.  At this point, there are 2 minutes till the shuttle launch and I find it very appropriate that we should be sending the shuttle back into space on the 4th.  I know that…