Terry’s Worklog

  • Kenny and Nathan camping

    We took Nathan and Kenny camping for the first time this last weekend.  We drove down to Diamond Lake, in Southern Oregon and had a nice relaxing time with the kids and my parents (who camped next to us).  My dad and I took off Saturday and road from Diamond Lake to Crater Lake and…

  • MarcEdit Update

    I’ll be updating MarcEdit to 5.1 shortly.  I need to make sure all the changes are working.  This will replace 5.0, and remove the beta moniker.  Ideally, this would have been done much sooner, but I got busy with a number of other projects that really left me with little time to work on MarcEdit. …

  • Summer ALA 2007

    This years Annual ALA conference was in Washington DC and was a first for me in that this was the first year that I brought my oldest son, Kenny with me on my travels.  For Kenny, ALA was an exciting trip.  This represented the first time that he has really left Oregon (outside of going…

  • Going to the movies

    Living in a small town has many benefits — no traffic, quiet neighborhoods, friendly neighbors — but sometimes, it can be a little inconvenient.  For example, if we wanted to watch a movie.  For the first 4 years, we’d have to drive to either Corvallis (25 miles) or Salem (21 miles — but awful traffic). …

  • Back from hiatus

    Howdy folks, its been a while I guess (May 5th to be exact).  It’s been a busy few months — busy enough to put a number of my own personal projects (MarcEdit for example) on hold.  I’ve been to San Jose (twice) for the IUG and a preservation meeting with the folks from Sun and…

  • MarcEdit 5 + Linux (and Mac)

    It’s been a little while since I’d taken a look at the progress being made by the MONO group in regards to the GUI development and since someone had asked, I thought I’d see how it was working.  The current stable working version of MONO tested is 1.2.3.  Testing was done on CentOS.  And what did…

  • Wounded pride

    So this is downright embarrassing.  For the second time in about a month, I’ve basically just tipped over on my bike and fallen off.  The first time it happened, I had gotten cut off and couldn’t get my feet out of my cleats fast enough to keep from falling.  That was less embarrassing since it wasn’t…

  • WorldCat Local — first questions

    So OCLC and the UW finally pulled off the cover and unveiled WorldCat Local to the world. A number of folks will write about the things that this does very well. The faceting is nice and clean, as is the layout. Some of the ajaxy features (like holdings retrieval) is a little clunky and I’ve…

  • Monster Cookie — success!

    So, the great recumbent roundup (aka, the Monster Cookie) was a rousing success. Kyle tried out his new high racer and got lots of looks. It’s a very unique, light (21 lbs) and fast bike. Both Kyle and I ended up doing a full century…100.4 miles to be exact. We padded about 18 on the…

  • Let the cycling season begin

    So I’m just about ready to head out and do the Salem Monster Cookie, a metric century (60 miles) that takes you from Salem, Oregon north towards Portland, OR. It’s a nice easy ride that’s always a fun way to kick off the riding season. As past practice, a few of us will be turning…

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