Terry’s Worklog
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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…
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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…
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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
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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…
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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…
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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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Amazon jumps off the Google ship
Its been noted in a few places around the blogsphere, but a number of notable Google-partners have been jumping ship. The largest of these partners has been Amazon. Amazon, who’s search engine, A9, utilized google to provide web search results, has moved to Microsoft’s new Live search service. The switch came as a bit of…
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What a cookie 🙂
Well, another year, another great monster cookie ride. The Salem Bike club does such a frantastic job of putting this ride on. The volunteers make sure that that the oranges, bananas, and peanut butter stays flowing and the then course itself is gorgous. Its a mostly flat course that takes you past lots of farm…
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And so the cycling season begins….
Whoo! The summer cycling season for me is starting up. Its 7 AM, about 45 degrees outside…sunny and I’m getting ready to head out the door to ride in the Salem Bike Club’s Monster Cookie event. This is a really cool metric century ride that goes through the Oregon Wine country. Its a well done event…
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MarcEdit Update
A small update. This cleans the installation, optimizes some of the MARC Editing tools in the MarcEditor (particularly the subfield edit utility) and updates the Extract and Delete selected records utility so users can do multiple queries while retaining their last set of checked items. Also, I’ve updated some help information. As always, the program…
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