Terry’s Worklog

  • 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…

  • Feeling my age

    Watching my two boys (6 and 3) is amazing.  They have boundless energy.  I remember when I had boundless energy.  Today, I feel like I’m stuck in the mud.  After 600 miles on the bike and about 60 miles running over the past two weeks I’m tired and sore (not a good, since I’ve still…

  • Music, animals and dinosaurs — Oh my

    Wow — it’s been unseasonably hot the past couple of days.  It’s funny how quickly things have gone from winter and snowing (last snow day was around April 23rd) to nearly 100 degree heat (yesterday and today).  Of course, with the thawing from winter to summer (I guess we are skipping spring this year), comes…

  • Ok — I’ve given blood, now you do too

    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…

  • RLG Tools Form (May 8th, Boston Public Library)

    So, as folks might have gathered from a few of my posts over the last week, I had a few engagements that have keep me on the east coast over the past week.  One of the events that I had attended during the week was the RLG Tools forum at the Boston Public Library.  This…

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