April 27, 2007
links for 2007-04-27
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via http://happymundane.blogspot.com/2007/04/through-looking-glass.html
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drool
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Great intro to RSS for people who haven't been won over yet
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If I had more time, this looks like a fun unconference
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A new edition of Making Places--their first devoted to libraries, civic institutions, and the creation of vital civic centers.
April 26, 2007
Off to NYC
We're off to NYC for David and Sandy's wedding!
April 25, 2007
It's back!!!
I got my blog back!!! I missed being able to blog and it is SO nice to have it back! I have lots of days to catch up on and will get right to work trying to post some of the things. Yay!!!
Mom and Bill were here for the weekend. Mom and I went shopping, I ducked out for a few hours to teach a blogging class at the Gilroy Library, and then Saturday night Margaret and Alan came up here and we all went out to dinner at Ragoots.
Sunday we went into SF and met up with Lisa and John who were visiting for a friend's 60th birthday party and the 6 of us went to see the Picasso exhibit at SFMOMA. It was super crowded but a really interesting exhibit where they really showed the amazing influence he had on American artists. Then we met up with Barbara and Richard at Samovar, my favorite SF tea restaurant (where I had just been the week before when a couple of us from work went up to the Web 2.0 Expo) and really one of my favorite spots anywhere.
I am getting my server migrated (hopefully soon!) and then will have more server space and bandwidth (it keeps crashing because I've overused my bandwidth -- probably because people keep linking to my pictures) and then I will finally upgrade my blogging software (fingers crossed) to something a bit more stable as well.
April 23, 2007
Why No Updates?
Sadly, I broke my blog and can't add any new items (plus all the search, comment and other features are broken). I'm trying to get it fixed, but that is why there haven't been any updates posted for quite a while. I'm alive and well, and will try to catch up when the files are all restored.
April 18, 2007
links for 2007-04-18
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New report out from ALA on the state of libraries... lots of interesting stuff...
April 16, 2007
PR for Rob
Rob got a nice write-up on the SLIS news page (and kindly dropped my name):
Robert Boyd joins library commission after LIBR 200 field study
BTW, the MH Times had a lovely editorial last Friday on the new library, New Morgan Hill Library is a Wonderful Project (subscription required):
As the Friends of the Morgan Hill Library near the end of their fundraising efforts and as National Library Week approaches, there's no better time to laud the work of the Beyond Books Campaign and to remind the community that there's still time to support the cause.
April 15, 2007
National Library Week 2007
National Library Week is a time to celebrate the contributions of our nation's libraries, librarians and library workers and to promote library use and support. This year it runs from April 15-21. Here in town, we got a proclamation passed by our mayor announcing the week (it'll be presented at Wednesday's city council meeting) and I promised to bring them a cake. At work, we're having an open house in our library on Thursday and will be tabling in our SF office during lunch on Wednesday.
April 14, 2007
Red in Second Life
I'm attending Jonathan's concert tonight in Second Life. Here are a few screen shots from the event.
I even got a snazzy t-shirt to wear:
Plus a copy of the libretto to read along with:
And chatted with people over drinks in the Red Tent during intermission
(though its a bit weird when the drink starts chatting with you)
It wasn't without its glitches though... sometime in the 2nd act we all started seeing a Pixar cartoon instead of the live feed... (though it may have been those talking drinks during intermission that did us all in...)
There was QA afterwards (and yes, I think those are leather pants...)
April 13, 2007
Americans for the Arts Dinner
A photo from Mom's Playhouse dinner last night:
Robert Lynch, President of Americans for the Arts, addressed a group of arts advocates at the Westport Country Playhouse yesterday, followed by a preview performance of All About Us (which opens Saturday night.) The visit, at the invitation of board member Ann Sheffer, highlighted the work of the nation's leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts (and arts education) in America, and the creators of the "Art. Ask for More" campaign appearing nationally in newspapers and magazines.
She's in Westport Now as well, pictured with Eartha Kitt.
I'd love to see the show -- its based on “The Skin of Our Teeth” by Thornton Wilder, one of my favorite plays.
links for 2007-04-13
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I'm going to have to show this site to the Gilroy Writer's Group when I talk to them about blogs on April 21.
April 12, 2007
New songs from Eduard
Eduard told me that he's been adding new songs to his purevolume account and that I've been missing them (I of course told him that it needed an RSS feed if I was expected to know about updates, but that I would try to check more often in the meantime). Right now the ones that are there are:
Beautiful
What I Got
You're So Last Summer
Demons
So go have a listen.
April 10, 2007
links for 2007-04-10
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On an upswing / Four years and growing: Bay Area's largest public companies show continuing growth of about 10%, often a result of innovative technology and business strategies
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Nice annual report -- and potential source of grants for our proposed series of arts and cultural events in town... hmmm
April 08, 2007
Local Parks
The weather has been really spectacular here so S convinced me to actually get out of the house and explore a bit. Yesterday we checked out the Chitactac Adams Heritage County Park which has petroglyphs and other things from the Ohlone Indians. There's a self-guided interpretive walk.
Today we went to Coyote Lake-Harvey Bear Ranch so we could sit by the lake for a while and read our books. It was so nice we decided to go for the annual parking pass so we can go back often and try out the other County Parks in the system (about 29 of them, many of them just a few minutes from home).
House Anniversary
Today's the 1-year anniversary of moving into our house!
April 07, 2007
Chasing the Rooster
Our local rooster is still very much at large. S decided to give it a bit of a chase yesterday (luckily he was unsuccessful .... the bird can fly after all)
Tabling
We did one last day of fundraising efforts at the library today, setting up a table outside and trying to raise awareness (and hand out goodies) to everyone coming in and out.
links for 2007-04-07
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Very cool. My avatar will definitely have to try to go.
April 06, 2007
Kay's Show
Kay Keeshen has a wonderful exhibit of her watercolors and pastels at the Community and Cultural Center. We went to the "Meet the Artist Reception" Friday night.
April 05, 2007
Distinguished Service Award
Mom and Bill received a Distinguished Service Award this morning from the Voluntary Action Center of Mid-Fairfield County. There's a piece on them in Westport Now and Mom sent this photo:
April 04, 2007
Hardhat Tour
We had the opportunity to take a hard hat tour of the new library tonight -- along with the rest of the library commission and city council. It is going to be a really fantastic space!!! Here are a few photos:
8 weeks until opening!!!
Once Upon a Mushroom
The front page of yesterday's Morgan Hill Times featured an article about one of the sculptures the Beyond Books Committee is raising money for. The article is restricted -- Once Upon A Mushroom -- but you can see one of the photos before having to log in. The piece had a nice box talking about the campaign -- we've raised about $140,000 out of our $180,000 goal. We're trying to wrap up the fundraising by May 1 to have time to get the donors names onto the donor wall, etc. before the big opening on July 21.
Here's a similar (but unrestricted) version from the Gilroy Dispatch -- Sculpture Will Greet Visitors to Morgan Hill's Library though since its the next town over they don't give the nice information about how to contribute.
links for 2007-04-04
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really interesting piece about typewriters (sent by Kathryn)
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a nice paper on politics and second life
April 03, 2007
links for 2007-04-03
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this is pretty much how I imagine Passover dinner... but ours didn't quite come out like that...
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goofy video about splitting matzahs perfectly in half
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Another great example of a library collaboration, and of course its from the Westport Library.
April 02, 2007
Dictionary Day
Today was Dictionary Day here in San Jose, where volunteers hand out dictionaries to all the 3rd graders in the local schools and play fun dictionary games with the kids. 19 of us from our company volunteered (7 from our team) and, like last year, had a great time. It's part of the California Dictionary Project. Our class was a bit crazy (it was right after lunch and recess) but the kids were excited to look up words for us and all wanted lots of attention.
The Merc has a quick piece: San Jose third-graders receive free dictionaries and Karen's classroom was taped for one of the local TV stations so maybe they'll be more coverage locally tomorrow.
April 01, 2007
Early Passover
We decided to have Passover a day early this year (because it was a lot easier to cook for a Sunday afternoon than a Monday after work). We had Suzanne, Michael, Laura, Elise, Jess (who works with Michael), and Wonsook and WAY too much food. We bought ourselves a new dining room table last weekend at Ikea and it expands to seat about 10 people. We used the hagaddah I had written back in 2001 (and had always meant to revise, but still haven't gotten around to doing).
I dug my Hagaddah collection out of storage for the occasion
The table
Shachar made lamb, asparagus, yams, zucchini stuffed with rice and salmon and various other things. I made matzah ball soup, chocolate toffee matzah, Manishevitz marble cake, and three different kinds of charosets.
Wildflower Run
This morning was the local AAUW chapter's annual Wildflower Run, their big fundraiser of the year. I was a course volunteer and stood for a couple of hours on the corner of Cochrane and Peet cheering people on and pointing them to turn right onto Peet. It was a gorgeous morning and tons of people of all ages were out participating.