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Sunday, April 6, 2008

Where did I go?: I’ve made it a point to keep my personal life off of this blog but I feel anyone still reading needs an explanation. To sum up: in the summer of 2006, my mom and both my grandmothers had cancer. My mom died in August. My grandfather died of the same cancer that killed my mom [...]

Tuesday, May 23, 2006

Life Trumps Blogging: I thought I owed you guys an explanation for why I haven’t been really posting lately. Life hates me.
No, seriously.
First I got a roomate. Then the new apartment manager gives me a hard time because she has 3 cats even though the old apartment manager okayed it.
Then I found out that my mom has [...]

Friday, March 17, 2006

New Look: Nothing lasts forever, particularly my site designs.
If you’re using a feed reader, you might want click through to see the new look. As always, I would love feedback.

Friday, July 29, 2005

Library OSS: Check out the Open-Source Software for Libraries list I’ve added.

Sunday, May 22, 2005

Time to go: I’m moving next week and I don’t know when I’ll get back online so I’ll see you soon.

Monday, April 25, 2005

Feeling Much Better: I’m back at work full time and I’ve finally managed to get caught up with work. I’ve reopened comments and hopefully I’ll get something interesting in here soon.

Thursday, February 3, 2005

or not: I’m having eye surgery tommorow for a detached retina. I have no idea when I’ll be on the Internet again so I’m closing comments again until I get back.

Something New: I received not one but two interesting emails recently in response to posts I’ve written. I’m taking it as a sign that I’m growing as a blogger to the point where readers may actually want to talk back to me. So I’m opening comments here. We’ll see how it goes.

Wednesday, November 24, 2004

Creative Librarian is back

I’ve got the database sorted out. It’s not accurate but at least it’s not showing 300 posts on one day!
I’ve gone ahead and changed some things.

The archive lists are now on one page.
The mobile version of the site is still at the same place though.
My contact form has also moved.
The biggest change [...]

Monday, November 22, 2004

Still Screaming: I’ve finally got the site switched over to Wordpress.
I’ve planned on moving away from MovableType for a while, I was just waiting on WP to add a couple of more features so I could minimize the disruption here. So when there was a disruption with no easy fix, I took the opportunity to go [...]

Wednesday, November 17, 2004

Pardon Me: … while I scream. I updated to MT 3 and my database was corrupted. All attempts to fix the problem failed. I am now in the process of installing Wordpress. The data has been imported and attempts to fix are succeeding. Still, this is going to take a while.

Thursday, July 15, 2004

New Look: If you’re reading this in a newsreader, you might want to switch to a browser to see the new design. I haven’t done anything to the underlying structure. Just polished the visuals and changed the right bar a bit. Hopefully it will be easier to browse as well as prettier. If you have any comments, [...]

Wednesday, February 11, 2004

At it again: I’ve added two new categories, “Open Access” and “Career Info”, and moved some entries over to them from the Library Links page. For accessability reasons, I’m trying to keep that section from becoming a “catch all”. Links to the old versions in the original category should still work for quite a while.

Friday, September 5, 2003

Mobile Edition: Now There’s a mobile version of the Creative Librarian. I’ve use a MT-specific script to create dynamic versions of the index and entry pages rather than duplicate the entire site with stripped-down templates. The script was very easy to implement and adapt.

Saturday, August 23, 2003

Full Feed Available: Do to a request, I’ve added another XML feed with the full contents of my posts. It’s available up at the top under the imaginative name of “Full XML”. The original will stay with the excerpts because that’s my personal preference but hopefully this way everyone will be happy.

Friday, July 25, 2003

CIPA update: Internet Censorship in Libraries has been updated with a link to the final rules.
7/27/03- And another update to more open-source solutions.

Friday, June 27, 2003

Filtering Update: Internet Censorship in Libraries has had some information added.

Thursday, June 5, 2003

Update to CMS Article: Content and Knowledge Management Systems. Huh? has been updated with new information.

Monday, June 2, 2003

Tutorial updated: Content and Knowledge Management Systems. Huh? has been updated to add new information.

Friday, April 25, 2003

Welcome

There isn’t much here yet because the site is still under construction but I have a lot of ideas I hope to get up quickly once the design is finalized.
So far, I’m planning on sections for:

I expect much more to be added in time. If you have [...]