Now that it's too late, and there is no Mud Run in sight, work is sending me to San Diego. I don't have a date yet, but it's probably just a day trip and probably a couple of weeks out.

(Nick)Names like The City and The Bar both amuse and annoy me -- "The Bar on Castro" may be (barely) descriptive name, but isn't it a bit like calling your dog Dog? Anyway, there is a library conference every year in Charleston called....wait for it....The Charleston Conference. (It's actually sponsored by The Charleston Information Group, but ( Read more... )

Good night, GLADIS:
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Bring Your Dog to Work Day always makes me wish I had a dog. There is no way I could actually have a dog without catastrophic changes to my lifestyle, however, so I'm stuck with rolling on the floor of the office letting someone else's bulldog lick my face instead. Why, in this era of ubiquitous smartphones, there are no pictures of this is the ( Read more... )

Thankfully, it was an internal document.

I was writing this medium-long document about something, competitive information and emerging trends in libraries and stuff, and I kept talking about the library's mandate growing ("mandate creep" as I call it) and about the numerous emerging metadata standards. I managed to type mandata more than once ( Read more... )

So it looks like I'm visiting Lincoln (for work) on June 11. I don't think I have any LJ readers in that vicinity, but you nebber ask-a, you nebber find-a out! I suspect I'll depart SFO on June 10, having flown back from Las Vegas on June 9 -- and boy will my arms be tiwed! Tiwed of being admiwed. Tiwed of love uninspiwed. N E B R A S K A.... ( Read more... )

(Barbarian Splendor has just upgraded the software on a customer server.)

Barbarian Splendor: Okay, I have launched the client...
Barbarian Splendor: Nothing barfing YET.
Grubbybastard: ok
Grubbybastard: i heart nothing barfing

A library-customer of ours had hired a third-party vendor to do some development with them. The vendor forgot/ignored an email from me at the beginning of the project where I outlined which APIs they would need to buy in order to do the (overly-architected) project that they intended -- an email, I might add, in which I kept my personal thoughts ( Read more... )

Our company sponsors a variety of listservs -- for implementing new customers, for beta-testing new releases, for discussions of options products, blah blah blah. Anyway, some inordinate number of our staff thus end up as de facto listserv administrators. Naturally we use incredibly primitive software for managing our listservs, and some of the ( Read more... )

I think work will send me to both Scottsdale and Anaheim in June.

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