Terry’s Worklog

  • Off to ALA

    So my wife and I are off to New Orleans.  Should arrive around 6pm New Orleans time, so obviously we’ll be spending quite a bit of time in the air soon.  I’m hoping that the conference is a good one for both the attendees and the city.  As usual — I won’t have much time…

  • Project Gutenburg update

    Andrew Houghton let me know that this project did start creating MARC records for their data sets at some point.  Here’s the link I got: http://www.gutenberg.org/feeds/catalog.marc.zip  I haven’t looked at the records yet — but I’ll look at them shortly.  I’ll still post the XSLT in case anyone is interested in just looking at it…

  • Project Gutenburg MARC records

    I’m not sure how many folks will be interested, but I had someone ask me how difficult it would be to generate MARC records from the Project Gutenburg RDF catalog records.  Since I couldn’t remember if anyone has already generated a process for creating MARC records from these sets — I quickly generated an XSLT…

  • MarcEdit 5.0 Update

    Couple of Update notes.  I fixed a small issue with the 008/006 editing and have been spending a bit of time going through the XSLT processing code to do as much optimization as possible — and I’m happy to report that it looks like some good has come out of these optimizations.  Here’s how it…

  • New oak floors

    So I’ve been a little bit in accessible for the past 3-4 days because our house has been under some renovation. About a month back, our dog chewed a hole in our carpet helping my wife and I finally make the decision to take the carpet our of the bottom floor of our house and…

  • University of Virginia

    University of Virginia Originally uploaded by alycereese. This would be Alyce and I hanging out at the UVA rotunda. This is the last day of our trip and Alyce is a little tired. We’d just gotten back from visiting Monticello — but we couldn’t go home without one picture of the UVA grounds or the…

  • Mt. Vernon Mansion

    Mt. Vernon Originally uploaded by alycereese. Alyce ended up not liking the interior of this house — but at 3000 or 8000 acres — its a big piece of property and a very impressive view on the Potomic. –tr

  • Montpelier

    Montpelier Originally uploaded by alycereese. This was a pretty cool place because of the restoration work being done. The group doing the restoration has basically stripped the house to its original brick and are slowing repairing the outter structure and recreating the interior structure. –tr

  • Monticello

    Monticello Originally uploaded by alycereese. So this is a picture of Monicello. I love this place. I love the gardens and the forests. –TR

  • Ruby and Rails

    So, because of a project that I’m working on — I’ve started learning Ruby with Rails.  I was pleasantly surprised to find that Ruby is a really easy language to learn.  I have a feeling that when Microsoft developed C# — they based it on languages like Ruby because the overall feel is pretty much…

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