I don’t like the word “branding” but am using it anyway to describe a little doodle image I recently created to “brand” this site. You might notice it in the address bar of your web browser. What do you think? Now if I could figure out a way to include it in the header [...]

Soon I will be among friends at the 22nd annual NASIG conference held this year in Louisville, Kentucky. Mark Lindner will be along for the ride as well, which is great. The theme of this year’s conference is “Place Your Bet in Kentucky: The Serials Gamble.”
I will be joining several others in a [...]

Recently Roy Tennant joined OCLC and explained his reasons for taking this step in a post on the Library Journal: Digital Libraries blog. Roy is someone whom I admire and respect, a visionary and great communicator about technology and libraries. He has done, and continues to do, a huge amount of great things.
When I saw [...]

[Updated 5/29/2007: I did something unbelievably stupid and deleted the original version of this post accidentally. Here it is again thanks to Google's cache.]
This morning, Walt Crawford made public the fact that he no longer has a job with OCLC. I fail to understand the whys and wherefores here. All I know is, I wish [...]

We had a pretty full weekend. For the first time in months I felt capable of tackling projects such as housecleaning. Sunday we were able to go to church as a family for the first time in a long while. That evening we went to a local park on a nearby lake and had [...]

OK, this is really geeky, but I was very excited to discover this a.m. that my bank finally went live with its mobile banking capabilities.  I’m not sure but it might be the first nationwide bank to roll out such a feature.  It’s worthwhile to say at this point, also, that the forward-looking, easy-to-use, FREE [...]

Dan Chudnov is someone whom I really admire and respect, whose enthusiasm and inventiveness for all things library techie-related is infectious. This morning he posted a long piece on his blog (One Big Library) giving advice to others about coping with frustration, disappointment, and burn-out over acceptance, or lack thereof, of new technologies in [...]

Yesterday, the weather was perfect, sunny and not too hot. We decided to make a trip to Racine, WI to buy plants at Milaeger’s Gardens. It is about an hour’s drive and well worth it. The kids were all restless and ill-behaved but we still managed to get several nice window boxes and a nice [...]

Another change to this blog that I made a while ago but never mentioned here is that I have mobilized it using a cool WP-Mobile plugin. By mobilized, I mean, FML is now optimized for reading on mobile devices. My eyes have been opened lately to the need to serve this category of [...]

Late yesterday I managed to successfully upgrade to WordPress 2.2. In that process it became clear that my old theme didn’t play nicely with the new software, so I decided to change it once more. I chose a three column theme called Rapid Access that bills itself as optimized for accessibility, readability, and [...]