Monthly Archives: May 2007

Yatta! Site sorta moved to WordPress, now the hard part begins.

Posted on May 14, 2007 by karin

I have moved the main Nirak.net domain to wordpress and moved over the feeds to the new address (good thing I use feedburner). If you subscribe and notice anything weird, please let me know (karin [at] nirak.net). Now, the hard … Continue reading →

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Vacation: Day 1

Posted on May 12, 2007 by karin

Food: Breakfast: Sausage Biscuit from Farmers Market Morning Snack: Piece of Rhubarb/Raspberry pie hubby made Lunch: Leftover Pizza Dinner: Tomato and mozzarella on sourdough I’m sure you can tell that food is going to figure in heavily on this vacation. … Continue reading →

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Expect a little dust

Posted on May 10, 2007 by karin

I am going to start the process of moving my site over to WordPress- so if you encounter a few broken links over the next week, don’t worry. I will (hopefully) be done sometime next week (what a way to … Continue reading →

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Installing Ubuntu @ your library

Posted on May 10, 2007 by karin

I’m sure most everyone has seen this, but it’s awesome, so I’m posting it again. Jessamyn West installs Ubuntu on a couple of library computers. I love the production! I need to learn to make fun videos like this…

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Happy dance x 2.

Posted on May 10, 2007 by karin

I got a mention in AL Direct- an email publication from the American Library Association that goes out to all members: I did not expect this presentation to get so many mentions- but this really tells me that librarians are … Continue reading →

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Happy Dance

Posted on May 9, 2007 by karin

I have reason to do happy a dance. There will be more later. For now, a visual:

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Insert interesting title here

Posted on May 6, 2007 by karin

The title here is a bit of a joke- a few weeks ago, there was a story in UNL’s student paper, the DN, in which they used a template and forgot to replace the default quote which read something like … Continue reading →

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Open access presentation DONE!

Posted on May 3, 2007 by karin

One project down. I have put the presentation and accompanying paper up on my C.V. I still have to do one last heavy duty proof, but for the most part, it’s done.

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I'm on Lifehacker!!

Posted on May 3, 2007 by karin

Well, this totally made my day. After seeing some of the way cool submissions in Lifehacker’s Coolest Workstation contest, I thought there’s now WAY I’d be featured, but whaddaya know, there I am. Squee!

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Do we really have to play the conservative vs. liberal game in this profession too?

Posted on May 3, 2007 by karin

Like most humans, I have a tendency to suffer from tunnel vision- I tend to read things that support my current viewpoint, which lead me to things that further support my current viewpoint. The library world, sadly, is no different. … Continue reading →

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