Terry’s Worklog

  • III WebPAC Pro 2006 and more

    I just finished sitting through a session on the current upgrade to the WebOpac.  They are actually looking to do some pretty cool stuff in the realms of adding community tagging, rss feeds (though it is additional for fee product if you want to publish data from your catalog) and faceted searches.  Its really be…

  • IUG Reception

    I enjoy the IUG reception — its a great time to get to chat with some of the folks from III and chat with friends.  Last night’s reception was really good — partly because I got to have a good conversation with Ted Fons — one of the many III product managers.  I like Ted,…

  • Saturday, May 20, 2006: IUG Keynote

    The IUG conference started out this morning with an initial presentation by III CEO, Jerry Kline. For as much as some of III’s pratices frustrate me, I actually like Jerry quite a bit. He’s very approachable and I generally enjoy chatting with him — even when I disagree. Anyway, Jerry’s conference touched on a number…

  • IUG 2006, Denver, CO

    Its about that time again for the IUG’s annual usergroup meeting.  This year, the annual meeting is at the Hyatt Regency in Denver, Co and will last for a few days.  I got in yesterday and the weather was definitely gorgeous.  It was 87ish yesterday and almost 90 today.  A little hot for my tastes…

  • Turning comments off for now

    If someone knows of a good wordpress plugin for automatic spam management — I’d appreciate someone dropping me a note at: terry dot reeset at oregonstate dot edu.  I’m getting close to 70 spam comments a day that I’m having to wade through to moderate and I’m getting tired up it.  So until i get…

  • MetaSearch Updates

    Ah — well, it looks like we are getting close to a formal public release….Friday actually.  There are a few things that I’d still like to work better (III’s Z39.50 server for example) — but we are ready to make it available to our patrons and start taking our lumps.  Some of the new things…

  • Finally Google has hit the big time 🙂

    Per this morning’s Dilbert: http://www.comics.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20060516.html (I’m pretty sure this link will only be good for ~30 days). –terry   

  • No, no.

    Here’s how you can tell that Nathan has been watching a little too much TV.  While we don’t watch much TV while the boys are up — one of Alyce and Kenny’s favorite shows is Deal or no Deal.  Well, I guess I can add Nathan to the list.  Flipping through the channels tonight, Nathan…

  • New Bike — sortof

    Today, for the first time, I found myself on a recumbant.  A friend of mine had one that he was able to setup for me and let me tool around in it as we took an extended ride.  Definitely different.  When I first got on, I couldn’t figure out how I was going to be…

  • MarcEdit 5.0 Update

    Couple of updates — two bug fixes and 5 cosmetic/behavioral changes that after trying them out, I think will be useful for folks. Bug fixes: Making the same file 2x in a row thows error: This is a timing error within the program. While I cannot recreate the error myself, looking at the error report…

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