In the midst of all the stuff that’s been happening, a significant milestone was reached for Brinley and Cohen. We succeeded in getting rid of their pacifiers! Yeehaw! No more temper tantrums when — as often happened — a pacifier for one or both of them could not be found. No [...]

Last night I managed to solve the longstanding problem with the main RSS feed for FML. Basically I upgraded the version of WordPress I have been using to the latest release (ver. 2.0.2) which overwrote some files that, I think, had become corrupted. In the process I also changed the theme to a [...]

He’ll kill me for doing this but I can’t resist linking to a funny video of Keegan, taken almost five years ago on a family trip to Maine. This was filmed at Ferry Beach State Park. The video file is located on one of my favorite Web 2.0 sites, Multiply.com, which, unlike Flickr, [...]

I’m pining to be at this year’s NASIG conference being held right now in beautiful Denver, Colorado. But wait, there’s a nifty conference blog that I can read each day to keep up with my friends and colleagues at a distance! I think blogs and NASIG make a great combination. I can’t [...]

I’ve been having a consistent problem with the main RSS feed for this blog, such that only the title of each post is distributed, in spite of the fact that I’ve designated that the full text of each post be included. Be patient, I will try to figure this out. (And if anyone [...]

My big news is that I will shortly begin a new job. Yesterday I accepted a job offer from one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies, to manage their library’s systems as well as their technical services operation. I am really excited about this opportunity. I’ve worked for two large, academic [...]

I’ve not blogged much for at least a couple of weeks. I’ve been struggling through some pretty difficult illness, the most recent of which was caused, as I suspected, by antibiotics messing up my stomach. My doctor confirmed earlier this week that I’ve been fighting a rather nasty bacterium (sp.?) called Clostridium difficile, [...]

[Through a series of missteps that I won't go into here, I discovered that I had accidentally deleted this post, first published a few weeks ago. I feel pretty dumb. When I figured out what happened, I sat here, stunned, wondering what to do. Then I remembered Google's good 'ol caching capability, did a [...]