One of our customers just launched our "web 2.0" catalog interface, for which I'm the product manager. Anyway, they've made a little YouTube video to promote/introduce it to their student body:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFq_zzeTI2g

:p

I hate it when people at work -- usually the sales force -- ask questions that are so simple that they become complicated because I spend time figuring out what they're really asking ( Read more... )

For those who may be curious, my itinerary is behind the cut. I chose Glasgow over the orchestra. :p ( Read more... )

For the June trip to Dublin, our sales rep for the UK has asked that I fly into Glasgow so that I can visit Glasgow University (oh, twist my arm!), after which we'll traipse over to the University College of Cork. My itinerary is shaping up to be something like this ( Read more... )

Well, my talk got accepted for LITA, so I'll be in Salt Lake City for October 2-4.

I understand you need membership to go to bars there? Do I need to start my application process now?

I don't think I have any readers at all in Salt Lake -- is that right? It's a dry town in more than one sense.

In the library industry, when your employer sends you to Dublin, it's a sad truth that what is usually meant is the Dublin that is outside Columbus, Ohio, which is where a huge provider of metadata and library services is located, among their "services" being a lot of the think-tank-y kind of research for libraryland ( Read more... )

The BEST, absolutely best, part of living in the Bay Area is that your employer can use an earthquake drill to get everyone out of the building and into the parking lot to take a 30-year-anniversary commemorative photograph.

Now THAT'S Innovative!!

They are renovating half of the bathrooms at the office, resulting not just in lines for the bathrooms that are not being renovated (one now needs to plan well in advance if one is going to need a bathroom, and to visit the bathroom before 1:00 p.m. if one anticipates needing toilet paper) but considerable pounding near my desk, which seems to be ( Read more... )

Received email of the nao ( Read more... )

My travel rate is increasing.

This may be of interest if you live in/near Burbank, Lansing, Toledo, or Columbus. ( text )