website

well, I have a website, it's about as attractive as a stray alley cat, but at least it's there.  I don't want an A, I just want to pass!!!

I've found that hours spent tweaking html code is not that different from the hours I would spend in a dingy, smelly, poorly lit practice module cursing the name of Beethoven and wishing Oliver Cromwell would desend upon my university and abolish the music program

c'mon mom, just 5 more minutes, pleeeeeeeease

I can't wait to be finished with this blogging project, I look forward to erasing it with glee. (yeah I hate blogging). I'm honestly a bit concerned about all these accounts we've created through out this course, I don't remember the passwords to half of them and I don't really want people browsing through sites that I found interesting enough to tag/bookmark. In this crazy web 2.0 world, how much will browsing privacy matter, or be protected? Is it really a concern? Libraries (allegedly) protect patron records with tooth and nail, should Zoomclouds keep our tag clouds hidden in a vault that requires fingerprint and retinal scanning authorization, but does it really matter that I bookmark sites about apple computer, and tend to read every article on Google News (even though they tend to keep changing the particular edit of the same damn stories all day).

IM Reference

Having never used the IMAPITTLIBRARIAN instant messaging service, I'm curious; but it got me thinking (which is usually a dangerous thing)....

With the recent interest in telecommuting to work due to enviornmental concerns, IM reference would be a great way for the library to express their greeness. I'm not sure Al Gore has ever gone after libraries for killing trees to stock their shelves, but someone probably will. Libraries do consume a lot of energy, lighting all those shelves that get brwosed two times a year, heating and cooling a building, all those computers running.

Field experience (and not the reaping/planting kind)

What library doesn't love free labor (clearly they'd have to be insane not to).

So even though you aren't technically a librarian until you're, well, a librarian with a degree, how much will you really learn in your final 2 classes, could an almost a librarian intelligently and correctly answer reference questions? If so, then I think it'd be cool to have a field experience working for a local librarian as an offsite, electronic correspondence (IM/email/whatever) reference resource

iphone battery lawsuit

Ok, the battery slowly (a matter of perception I guess) loses capacity over time and performs at about 80% of original capacity after 400 charge cycles. No problem, every LIon battery does that.... but to waste all the time and money to file a class action lawsuit because the battery in the iphone is just like any other mobile or laptop... sounds to me like someone has too much time on their hands.

I think this is an example of how technilogical innovation has exceled in some areas while not other related areas... All this laptops that offer the performance of a desktop, but you can only use them for 4 hours on the go

whew

Well, hearing all of these working librarians talk about their libraries makes me feel a lot better, I can deal with budget problems, stupid rules, and unruly patrons or employees. What a refreshing chat, to hear some librarians that don't seem to think the physical library is on the verge of going the way of the Do-do.

oh snap!

If you would mosey on over to http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9745198-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20 you can see a lawsuit against youtube, but also apple as their iphone, since it plays youtube videos, that are illegal. I peronsally doubt this case is going anywhere, at least not against apple.

second nay third thoughts

Wow, all these conversations in class and I'm beginning to feel like I'm entering a soon to be extinct profession. If I have to go back to school and get certified to teach kindergarten because libraries evolve to function without librarians I'm probably going get down on the floor and kick and scream.

approachable or non-professional

Disclaimer: My blog is rife with grammatical no-nos, spelling fiascos, and general poor quality English language usage.

So, unless you use Firefox 2 or Safari 2 (love the mac I do) there is no built in spellchecker in IE7. So, when a blog contains grammatical errors or typos, and it is published by a professional, for the public, do such errors make the blog more human, more "I can connect, the blogger is a human too" or do misplaced apostrophes and reversed vowels say, "how unprofessional, how disgustingly disappointing"

Should professional blogs be as pristine as my 9th grade English Grammar and Composition teacher?

Zoom Clouds

Koha list

Palestrina / Cametti, Alberto,
The Age of Caravaggio.
The Age of the baroque in Portugal /
Oratorios of the Italian baroque /
Arcangela Tarabotti :
Art and pageantry in the Renaissance and Baroque /
Arts & humanities through the eras.
Baroque reason : Buci-Glucksmann, Christine.
The art of allegiance : Schreffler, Michael J.
The baroque : Skrine, Peter N.
Court culture in Dresden : Watanabe-O'Kelly, Helen.
Over here : Kennedy, David M.
Roma barocca; Portoghesi, Paolo.
Aldus Manutius and Renaissance culture :
Artistic exchange and cultural translation in the Italian renaissance city /

iphone

Not gonna lie, I want one. I think it's rather a waste of technology, does a lot of nifty things, but still, I have my ipod for music, and my mobile to make calls. If I want to browse the internet I'd much rather do it from the comfort of my desk with a big widescreen instead of an index card sized handheld

All these doom and gloom books about how copyright is on the verge of smiting us all. I know libraries should be far more involved in the making of copyright law, but for now the status quo has left me highly functional. It's a piss poor attitude, but I'd just as soon ignore it altogether

Gr-Gr-Gr-Grazr