Posted in Stories on Dec 21st, 2004 No Comments »
The venerable physics Professor Christina Kringle, greying more from standing in a perpetual cloud of chalk dust than from decades of teaching and research, stood before her class of dumbfounded undergraduates on the last day of fall quarter.
“There will be no final exam,” she announced, for the second time. “Merry Christmas. Happy Hannukkah, Blessed Kwanzaa, [...]
Posted in Library Tech on Dec 21st, 2004 No Comments »
[Yes, I know it's been more than 2 weeks since my last post...]
Due to the needs of the groupware project I’m working on, I’ve been exploring the world of LDAP.
Unfortunately, I’m trying to query our Windows Active Directory to discover the LDAP attribute names for use in a PHP script — and the Microsoft documentation [...]
Posted in Stories on Dec 13th, 2004 No Comments »
Deep beneath the rubble of centuries past lay a pebble. It was all that remained of the stone that had been spattered with a drop of the sweat of the Buddha as he had passed by on his way to some greater destination. The stone had attained sentience at that very instant. It had lain [...]
Posted in Library Tech on Dec 3rd, 2004 No Comments »
Like any good systems librarian, I should probably figure out a few things before suggesting a groupware system. You know, little stuff like…
Why do we need groupware anyway?
Who are the stakeholders?
Who are the end users?
What do those users need?
How are they meeting those needs now?
What constraints (technological, budgetary, etc.) are we working with?
I should also [...]
Posted in Library Tech on Dec 2nd, 2004 No Comments »
I know, this is probably old news by now, but I can’t resist commenting on a meme that I think has a lot of potential for a real impact on the way people find information. StumbleUpon is a toolbar that, with the click of a button, appears to send you to a random page. But [...]