Three things that made me happy today:

• Resigning from both chess games with honor, and realizing that I enjoyed them enough that it didn't matter that I lost.  I'll probably return to those boards in a few days to analyze them.
• Having an early VD with Jodi (dinner and a movie)
• Specifically, watching Sweet Land (about which more later, probably in a ( Read more... )

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With #code4lib's help, I've now got an XSLT stylesheet that lets browsers turn the existing RSS feed into something resembling HTML. This is a big step for all of the work I'm planning to do, since it means I can apply that knowledge to all the rest of the XSLT stuff ( Read more... )

My Perl script returns valid RSS for items added in the last 7 days at any given SunCat library. I need to make it cache results and use the cache, or else I can't share the URL without getting our database slammed by broken RSS aggregators querying once per minute. But I've got valid RSS, which is a good start.

Next parts of the project:

1. Get a ( Read more... )

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Today I packed a rolling suitcase and a backpack with almost all the gadgets a modern Pharaoh would be entombed with: GPS, digital camera, PDA, cell phone, laptop, and cables to connect them all. Then I watched

Tomorrow morning I'll drive to Orlando to take a plane to Minneapolis. You can track AirTran Flight 870 to see where I am. (It should ( Read more... )

"One more thing," she says as I return to the office I share with my co-worker. "If you guys could move the old UPS batteries sometime today... we've got a class in there Monday, and APC won't be picking up the old batteries by then ( Read more... )

We recently lost power at TBLC. For half an hour, maybe an hour, we had no power -- and so I scrambled madly to shut everything down. It didn't take too long, and everything came back up without too much trouble.

We're getting new UPS equipment next month, but our current system seems to have worked pretty well. Good to know.