Archive for October, 2005



Study break

Even though I store all of my photos on Flickr, I sort of miss being able to display them on my own site like I used to (though I don’t miss the time I put in to hand-building those galleries). So I was intrigued when I stumbled across the FAlbum WordPress plugin, which uses the […]

Ready Steady A Go-Go!

Ready Steady A Go-Go: Front, originally uploaded by Oldtasty.
I posted this on my Flickr site a long time ago, but spurred on by one of my classes, I’ve finally gotten around to ripping a song to MP3 format — go here to listen to “Soo Cho Riverside” by Charlie and His Go-Go Boys. Make it […]

Cataloging

In lieu of an actual post, I offer list of books I cataloged today:

Is Violence Inevitable in Africa? Theories of Conflict and Approaches to Conflict Prevention (303.64096 Is11, Education Library)
Participatory Rural Appraisal: Methods and Applications in Rural Planning (307.14120954 P2583 2004)
The Bangladesh Dichotomy and Politicisation of Culture (954.9205 B223b)
Experiencing History Through Archives: Restoration of Memory […]

My box, originally uploaded by allanli.
Well, I’m not sure if it’s really public domain material, but this guy took some of the images from my collections of Cultural Revolution clip art (this one for sure) at Flickr and created what looks like revolutionary gift box. Score one for fair use.

Classes are kicking my ass and I don’t see that changing for a while. Which classes? Why, these classes:

LIS 501AL1 — Information Organization and Access
LIS 590DIL — Digital Libraries: Research and Practice
LIS 590II — Interfaces to Information Systems

I’d had a less technical semester planned, but because there’s now a good chance I’ll be moving back […]