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For reasons that are beyond me, OCLC is letting Walt Crawford go. (I’m not going to introduce Walt because, well, I’d be shocked if anyone reading this blog doesn’t know who Walt is.) If you’ve ever thought to yourself, “Gee, wouldn’t it be great if Walt worked for me? Too bad OCLC snatched him up,” [...]
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My blog crashed again this weekend. Perhaps you noticed. I submitted a trouble ticket to my web hosts and got a fairly quick response. It turns out, my hosts upgraded PHP and didn’t notify anyone. I was informed they would be rolling back the PHP by the end of Saturday. But as of this morning, [...]
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I finally submitted a trouble ticket to my web hosts, although I was sure they would tell me there was nothing they could do, that it was all on my end. I should have had more faith. My web hosts (Logjamming, by the way) are outstanding. I got a quick reply, a solution was presented, [...]
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Yes, my blog is somewhat broken. Yes, I’m trying to fix it. I’m not having much luck so far, but I’m working on it. I appreciate everyone who has given me help and shown patience as I try to get this sorted out.
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If for the past week you’ve thought there was something wrong with this here blog, give yourself a pat on the back and do a shot. Here’s what happened: I upgraded to the latest version of WordPress, using the InstantUpgrade plugin. Unfortunately, my post-upgrade blog loaded veeeeerrrry slowly. (Royce Kitts said, “It’s loading slower than [...]
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Walt Crawford had a foggy notion, Steve Lawson egged him on, and Dorothea Salo kicked it into gear. Now I’m going to ride with it: my five biblioblogger heroes. Karen G. Schneider — I am very vocal about my undying affection and admiration for Karen. She’s the writer I most frequently have in my head [...]
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What Jane said. Boa sorte, Kathy. I’ll miss your blogging. I really do hope you’ll be back in the (not too distant) future. ADDENDUM: Dorothea Salo has written an excruciatingly important post about combating sexism and misogyny. Having spent much of my life in Geekland, her post really hit home. I have often found myself [...]
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One of the blogs that was going to be in my list of five favorite non-library blogs was Creating Passionate Users. But recent events made me decide to write a separate blog post about this particular blog. Like a lot of Library 2.0-types, I’m quite a fan of Creating Passionate Users, and my favorite posts [...]
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Nicole tagged me (and I barely felt a thing!) with a meme that originated with Rachel Singer Gordon, so let me come clean: I read blogs and frequent websites that have little or nothing to do with libraries. No one was more shocked than me to find this out. After further rumination, I have to [...]
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In a month’s time, I will be leaving the Olathe Public Library and starting as a Web Content Developer at the Johnson County Library. I’m not unhappy at OPL. Far from it. But when the opportunity comes up to work with Erica Reynolds and her dynamic Web Content team, you’d better believe I’m going to [...]
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