Found this on my trek around the intarweb today…an absolutely insane resource for 622 different music videos. I’m especially fond of the Perfect Circle video for Counting Bodies Like Sheep.
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Eating the ice cream…
Had a really interesting weekend, with more play than work. Friday was poetry night with the Spanish Club at Sewanee, where Betsy read some wonderful stuff by latino/chicano/puertoriqueno/ poets, while I read a couple of pieces from Jorge Luis Borges. Borges is a person that doesn’t get enough credit in the library world (other than the ubiquitous quote in all libraries “I have always imagined that heaven is a type of library”). He invented the an idealized, infinite library (The Library of Babel) that has been a very influential metaphor in literary circles. In addition, of course, he was a librarian at the National Library of Argentina.
The title of the entry is from one of his poems, where he opines “I’ll eat more ice cream, and less beans” in thinking on how he would change his life. This weekend was, as I said, all about ice cream.
Saturday we had drinks with friends Andrea and Will, and then more snacks and discussion with Ruth, Jason, and Nicky. Sunday we spent the afternoon on Tim’s Ford lake at Angela and Paul’s house, with an international crowd of Spaniards, Canadians, Columbians, and Americans. With cava flowing, amazing food, and perfect weather…well, it was the first of what I’m hoping is many wonderful spring days.
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More Tarheel Celebration pics
More pics from the madness on Franklin Street, this time from Fred.
And even MORE pics. I’m especially fond of this one (you crazy kids!). Via Justinsomnia.
EDIT: and yet even more pics. I love all of these! Makes me wish that I was still at SILS so that I could have taken part in the celebration.
Here’s my post from the MTSU IT Conference blog, announcing the audio download of my blog presentation. Listen at your own risk.
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I’ve normalized the audio of my blog presentation at MTSU, and uploaded it as an MP3, available here (WARNING: ~ 40 Meg MP3). It’s still too big for an MP3 (the OGG is only 17 megs) but I’m not sure what I should do to optimize it. Couple of quick notes on the audio:
After listening to it again, looks like some of the numbers I came up with were a bit off, and I thought I should correct them here:
- Actual number of articles in wikipedia: 518000, which turns out to be just about 6 times the amount in Britannica, not 5 as I claimed.
- Technorati lists, at the time of the presentation, 7.8 million blogs. I rounded up to 8 million during the talk…no harm there, I think.
- I claimed that there were more than 45 languages represented in the Wikipedia. While technically correct, the number of active languages is over 90.
More corrections if I find them. Also available in Ogg Vorbis, for those that prefer that format.
EDIT: One of the blogs & wikis attendees used the blog that we created during the presentation to take notes on the presentation itself. How very meta!!
This audio is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
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Testing new look
I ask for your patience…I’ve been looking for a 3-column layout that I liked for awhile now, and I’m partial to this Journalized-Blue template. Going to take some work customizing it, but we’ll see how it goes.
EDIT: So…any thoughts? I’m going to be tweaking the colors for a bit, I think…not sure if I want to go back to the brighter orange/crimson look from long ago, or stick with the muted black/blue look I’ve got now. Reasons I changed:
- I had been manually dealing with my links, and wanted to swap to the native WP link handler.
- Wanted a mini-blog area where I could do Justin-like Neatlinks.
- Wanted a better integration of Pages links.
- 3 Columns gives me more room for experimenting with sidebar tools.
- Can isolate metablog content, and link content in seperate bars.
Things I’d like: anyone out there know how I can get the content div to automagically size images to fit? Any thoughts on the new look? Better? Worse? Should I go back?
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Color me surprised
Walt Crawford has a blog! Welcome to the blogosphere, Walt…I’ve been a reader of Cites & Insights for some time now, and (like many, many others, evidently) asked you at one point about why you weren’t blogging. Now that you are, I look forward to adding you to my daily reading list.
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Pics of the Champs
Paul Jones puts up some pictures from the Tarheels return to the Dean Dome after the win.
More on the aftermath of the win, found at Is That Legal and Greenespace.
Wish we were there!
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This is so wrong.
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In Honor of the win…
After seeing Loren’s tribute to the Heels, I’ve decided to similarly attire my blog for a bit in Carolina Blue. I’ll go back to the old color scheme (or maybe a new one?) but for now, the blog is going blue.
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Followup on Tarheel Championship
Just a few links from the morning after the tarheel win:
- Is That Legal has the police report from Chapel Hill
- Fickr images from Franklin Street last night
- Here’s a few more Flickr photos
- Daily Tar Heel reports on the win
- Durham Herald-Sun
- Inside Carolina has audio and transcript of an interview with Coach Williams and some of the players
- And a Google News link for an overview of coverage around the country