Archive for October, 2005

Saturday, October 15th, 2005

Looking for web services job postings

I’m starting some research into web services librarianship (or related job titles). Here is my research question, gap in the current research and outcome.
Research Question:
What are the perceived duties, needed qualifications, etc. of a web services librarian? How does the position announcement compare with actual job functions?
Research Gap and Outcome:
Since web services is a new [...]

2 Comments » - Posted in Libraries and Library & Information Science by Dan

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Saturday, October 15th, 2005

My car is back

My car is finally back. It took a little more work and a few more parts than expected to remove the electronic shifter box and put my car back to normal. Shifting with the regular shifter is a little awkward right now but nothing practice won’t fix. And it is nice to know that [...]

Comments Off - Posted in Thoughts on Life by Dan

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Sunday, October 9th, 2005

RSS readers and a change in thought

I like RSS. It theoretically lets me absorb a lot more information than I would just browsing blogs. Trouble is I could never really make myself use RSS. I’ve used Feed Demon, the RSS support built into Thunderbird and Firefox and the Sage extension for Firefox.
I don’t know why I’ve never tried web based [...]

Comments Off - Posted in Information Technology and Library Monk News by Dan

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Friday, October 7th, 2005

Serenity

As I mentioned earlier, I saw Serenity. For those of your that haven’t seen it, (and you must), the first 9 minutes of the movie are online.This lays out the setting and back story of the movie. More background info can be found on Serenity’s Wikipedia entry.
Also here is a good article/essay about the [...]

2 Comments » - Posted in Science Fiction and Fantasy by Dan

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Friday, October 7th, 2005

Update on Life

The past week on so has been nuts. It started last Friday, we were taking care of a friend’s cats Friday, named George and Gracie. Taking care of the cats was no problem. Gracie didn’t come out too much but George was friendly. However, the electronic push button shifter box in my car decided [...]

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