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The boys got me out of the house this weekend and we picked up our tree.  They’d been itching to get the presents laid out.  Of course, the other person happy to see the tree is the cat.  He seems to believe that we brought this tree in the house just for him, because he’s…

I know that its a little early, but the boys are excited.  Today, we got a little bit of snow (enough that the boys get off of school tomorrow) and they say that it won’t get above freezing all week — so it maybe sticking around.  I’ve never, ever had a white Christmas, so we…

So, over this past year, I’ve watched the Beaver’s Football team go from awful (Stanford and Penn State) to great (USC) to inspired as they ran through the Pac-10.  In fact, like many season ticket holders, I was making my Rose Bowl plans because, well, all we had to do was beat a very flawed…

Changes, changes.  One thing that is always true at an academic institution is that things just don’t stand still very long.  Jeremy Frumkin, my good friend and partner in crime here at OSU for the past 5+ years, has moved on to the University of Arizona, leaving some very big shoes for the library to…

A friend of mine gave this to me the other day — it’s an old picture of Kenny, probably around when he is 14 or 15 months, so we would have still been in Eugene at the time.  To see him now, you’d have to wonder where all that blonde hair has went to. 🙂…

As all good things must come to an end, so too has the ReadEx Digital Institute closed for another year.  Like always, this symposium offers an opportunity to connect with colleagues from various institutions and professional backgrounds to discuss some of the issues that we wrestle with as we work on developing and managing our…

I was at the Oregon State/USC football game last night (9/25) and have just one question:  Does mean that Oregon State is now The OSU?  I’m just saying… –TR

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…

As a universal donor, I try to give blood when I’m not on my bike (thank you roofing staple) — so, the red cross was at OSU today and without a good reason not to give blood, I dropped by and gave a pint.  I actually wish I could do it more often — but…