I want to see Spiderman 2. Everyone keeps saying it’s great. It sounds like prime summer movie fare. It has Tobey Maguire, whom I liked a lot in Wonder Boys. It’s also not playing anywhere I can get to without a long bus ride. Harrumph. Ditto for The Village, which I want to see even […]
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I leave the detailed analysis of the Democratic National Convention to others who are more into politics-blogging. I will say one thing, though. Last week I was fantasizing about pursuing a political career just so I could introduce a piece of legislation called the Your Money Where Your Mouth Is Act. The YMWYMIA would stipulate […]
Far and away the best Google-search referral yet: "Jack Sparrow costume study." I think what they were looking for was more like this, but I’m glad they came here as well. This is giving me an idea for what to wear for Halloween this year. I just want an excuse to find myself a battered […]
Earlier I mentioned the week-long class on XML I’ve been taking. Today, after a couple of days’ worth of markup-language history, practice DTD-deciphering, parsing, validating, XML file-building, and the like, we moved into XSLT. The first thing we all did was to make a stylesheet that turned an XML document into a bare-bones HTML page […]
This week I went to an open house at the Ivy Stacks. The Ivy Stacks are the University of Virginia library system’s remote storage facility, where tons and tons of books are housed in boxes on high-rise shelves, which the staff traverse on machines that look like a cross between a forklift and a cherry-picker. […]
This week I’ve been attending the CLIR Scholarly Communication Institute here at UVA and having a blast. Among the highlights: a presentation on the amazing Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library; another on the history of the Roman de la Rose project at Johns Hopkins; and a talk by Deanna Marcum of the Library of Congress […]
This is going to be another miscellany post. I’m still catching up. Anyhow… Fun with arcane cataloging systems: Today I spent the morning taking a mini-class on MARC records. And I dug it. Once I realized that the bibliographic software I used for my dissertation uses the same fields, it all made sense, and I […]
The move is over — or at least Phase 1 of the move, Phase 2 being the part where I find a more permanent place to live and get my stuff out of storage. Everything went fine, even with down-to-the-wire packing and three airplanes to catch. I arrived in Charlottesville on Friday and spent the […]