Stuff Important to Me: August 2008

Medals / million population of country

Sunday, August 17, 2008

Using up leftover food.

This is a site from the UK, but the idea of searching for what is left in the fridge to find recipes that use those ingredients appeals to me.

http://www.lovefoodhatewaste.com

Monday, August 11, 2008

Librarian Day in the Life meme - day 5 - a do-over

Since I was home with a migraine on Friday, here is an actual fifth day.

8:15

email
rebooted
read blogs
problems with email, called IT
rebooted again - it is better, but not great
downloaded two XRCC patents
forwarded one patent to inventors
requested book from other library
MSN spam. I have blocked 3 already today
replied to email re being in a distribution list for corporate terminations
replied to annoying email from ARK-Group. No, I don't want your report.
looked up priority patent information and sent results to requester
looked up report pricing and sent to requester
tried NBC streaming Olympic coverage. It is a better picture than CBC, but the CBC interface is simpler to use.
sent email to Science Direct as a firsts step in sorting out an ordering issue.
discussed order with requester
discussed migraines with a visitor
checked "library typo of the day" - calender - except that is a correct spelling in papermaking.
http://www.answers.com/calender&r=67

calender: n. - A machine that smoothes or glazes paper or cloth by pressing it between plates or passing it through rollers v. - Press between rollers or plates so as to smooth, glaze, or thin into sheets.
bathroom break (do you really care?)
updated tag cloud on blog
reviewed requests for this afternoon
did I say my manager is on vacation for two weeks :), then I am on vacation for one week.

lunch

fire alarm in middle of lunch. Got to stand outside in the warm sunny weather for half an hour.
submitted PO for new monitor (20") -- sometime size does matter
posted these day in the life postings to our internal blog site.
once I was on the internal site, I felt the need to make some comments.
checked out the new free covers at library thing. Trying to figure out if we can use this.
updated one of the 5 internal web sites I maintain
handled two reference requests (a citation search and a supplier search)
still getting msn spam
search for internal reports
had 26 laboratory notebooks returned, checked in, labelled
twittered a bit
sent Daniel Lee a message
send Daniel Lee info
going home to watch Olympics

A typo in Library Typo??

"library typo of the day" - calender

except that is a correct spelling in papermaking

http://www.answers.com/calender&r=67

calender: n. - A machine that smoothes or glazes paper or cloth by pressing it between plates or passing it through rollers v. - Press between rollers or plates so as to smooth, glaze, or thin into sheets.

I added a comment first thing this morning, but it has not been posted yet. Hopefully no one went in and changed all the paper or cloth related calendering references to calendaring.

NEW:

an addition at 2:30 -- I am now an astute reader :)

http://librarytypos.blogspot.com/2008/08/calender-for-calendar.html

Not really, I just work in a library where we have materials on calendering of paper.

Sunday, August 10, 2008

A Day in the Life meme - Day 5

Friday August 8, 2008

migraine

stayed home

checked email and forwarded some

mostly lay around suffering

Thursday, August 07, 2008

A Day in the Life meme - Day 4

Thursday August 7, 2008

8:15 am

email
coffee
reader
coffee
email
checked library typo of the day -- "ligth" -- in our catalogue - found one - fixed it
prepared for budget and journal renewal review meeting with Library Users' Committee
paid Professional Engineer Ontario fees online
welcomed one of our retirees who visits regularly to catch up on his technical reading
updated calendars
arranged with IT to have some minor work done on my laptop over lunch
Library committee meeting went very well

Lunch

1 pm

registered for Sirsi Dynix course by Michael Stephens

Event Title: Taming Technolust: Planning in a Hyperlinked World
Event Date: August 26, 2008
Event Time: 11 a.m. Eastern

confirmed new subscription
looked into acquiring copy of market report
found hard to find article
received confirmation in mail for course and added to calendar
handled mail
forwarded requests to staff
updated training html and cf code
uploaded searches

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Wednesday, August 06, 2008

A Day in the Life meme - Day 3

Wednesday August 6, 2008

8:10

pick up newspapers
arrive in a caffeine deprived state
drink coffee
read Google reader items
check email for urgent items
since I have the full acrobat programme I do various things for staff -- today cut out 8 pictures from a document and sent to requester - he later asked why I did not do it last night at home because he had waited up for me to send it to him :)
finalized plans for getting lab notebooks scanned
read and/or deleted email from inbox - not much today
filed email - I get over 100 a day and need to spend time every couple of weeks organizing and weeding them - my goal is an empty inbox.
answer question on what kind of paper can go in printer.
phone call from PIRA in the UK (love that accent) asking about a journal renewal
straightened out that renewal on our end and theirs
check email
forwarded PIRA email to assistant for her to handle
phone call from journal vendor. Set appointment for end of month to discuss quote. Invited assistant to participate
wrote a blog post on http://www.canada411.ca
called home

10 am

starting a headache. off to get food and take pills
BLT with cheese - yummy
checked library typo of the day against our catalogue - impared - no matches were found
updated online calendars
continued with paper monster - filled my recycle bin in my office
created an account with Collections Canada for ISBNs (for CFUW cookbook)
filing of paper from paper monster
check email
checked status of ID ordered yesterday
blogged http://www.pandora.com
updated training database with conferences etc.
sent appreciation award nomination for staff member

Lunch

lunch with my peeps (husband, daughter, son). They brought a picnic lunch and we ate outside (note to self - tell facilities that picnic tables need painting)

1 pm

listening to this cool music site http://www.pandora.com Only works on US IP addresses, not Canadian ones so I cannot listen at home.
continued updating training database with conferences etc. - added approx. 25 courses and conference to database. Time consuming.
All staff meeting 3-4.

4 pm

request from corporate library in USA to test remote Z39.50 catalogue access. Still not working. Replied as such.
headache still not gone - more pills
talked to people dropping by as they return from staff meeting - I enjoy it, but it is time consuming.
cleaned up learning/training database display on web page (cold fusion, html, dreamweaver, etc.)
check email
watered plants
set up new account for new employee and sent him a ton of info on what we have, what we can do for him, how we can make things easier,etc.
called Dog Guides of Canada to check a few things on the foster puppy we will be picking up next week. this is our second one. The first one can be seen at flickr casper set

6 pm

soccer practice for kid#2
home paper monster / pay bills / filing
menu planning etc for company coming for the weekend

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Pandora

What is Pandora?

Pandora is a music discovery service designed to help you enjoy music you already know, and to help you discover new music you'll love.

It's powered by the most comprehensive analysis of music ever undertaken, the Music Genome Project: a crazy project started back in early 2000 to capture the complex musical DNA of songs using a large team of highly-trained musicians.

Just tell us one of your favourite songs or artists and we'll launch a streaming station to explore that part of the musical universe.

You can listen to Pandora on the Web, Pandora on the Go, or Pandora in the Home.

I love this concept.

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Canada411

I needed to look up a phone number today and was very pleasantly surprised to see that the old standby canada411.ca has upgraded.

The look is cleaner and easier to use.

But best of all, when I found my person, I was offered the option to save, email to a friend and share on Facebook. I chose save and was offered quick links to save in Outlook, Outlook express, lotus notes, lotus organizer and palm desktop. Also options for saving as word or PDF to my desktop. And printing. And add to Facebook, myspace, yahoo notepad, digg, del.i.cio.us, Google bookmarks, ask.com, furl and yahoo my web. You can also send it as an email, a text, or IM.

I don't know why I would post someone's phone and address in Facebook, but some of the other options are quite nice.

I saved to outlook and it was quick and easy.

Another cool addition is that when you chose someone, it shows you a map (using Microsoft virtual earth) to their address and offers to give you directions to get there.

Other features made easier to use: reverse look up; proximity search (find who lives near you, a location, a phone number, etc.);

Now off I go to ~~waste time and~~ add other people to Outlook.

quick and easy.

Tuesday, August 05, 2008

A Day in the Life meme - Day 2

Tuesday August 6

8:30 am

Came in early to make up hours to leave early on Friday (my sister is visiting next weekend)
Considered the fact that this is not a typical week what with holiday on Monday and leaving early on Friday, but then, none are
Checked email
requested an invention disclosure document
forwarded a couple of things of interest to various staff (XRCC staff, not library staff) members
started this meme :)
downloaded list of knovel titles we subscribe to
sent email to knovel support requesting MARC records for our titles
fixed typo in library newsletter published last Friday - both the publisher version and the web version
reviewed google reader content and forwarded items of interest to staff
tried to figure out why the first DayInTheLife post is not showing on my blog - gave up - it will show up sometime
refreshed book display
sent updated meeting notice to Library Users' Committee members (meeting is on Thursday) with room number
reviewed notes for lunch meeting (non work related CFUW meeting to organize part of CFUW Oakville 60th anniversary celebrations)
checked today's "typo of the day for librarians" (monthy for monthly) in our catalogue -- no matches were found!!
added a couple of trial blogs to my reader
tried to upload a newsletter to our nano files - problems with the software
rebooted computer and went to get breakfast while it was restarting
after reboot, all is well, files uploaded properly
reconfirmed staff meeting this afternoon - it has been cancelled - gained an hour of my life back.

10 am

chemical abstracts search on XXXXXXX for XXXXXXX :)
set up folder for august searches and added results from above search
sent results to requester with summary and explanation of search methods
merged and corrected library online passwords file
merged and corrected my personal online passwords file

11 am

attended corporate communications meeting online
participated in second life meeting.
the second life meeting consisted of us trying to work out a way of watching the communications meeting in second life together.

LUNCH

added knovel widget to web page
sent erroneous email to entire building instead of one person. Received multiple "humourous" comments from various staff members. Looking for large rock to crawl under
replied to my manager (perhaps I shouldn't have) who felt the need to alert me to a typo in the erroneous email - wtf - ironically he had a typo in his
went for short walk to get a drink -- diet coke people, diet coke :)
made appt for massage on Friday
set up appt for 4 pm to assist someone installing software
pointed another person to corporate library resources
started on "paper monster". It lives in my desk drawer. It is funny how things lose importance the longer they sit in a drawer. Tossing most things into recycle bin.
read email and blog posts
answered cataloguing question

4 pm

filled out credit card dispute form for a library service we cancelled but they billed anyway, printed all email, and mailed to mastercard
tried to install software, but the uninstall would not work
gossip
watched the lightning and wind and rain out the window and wondered when the power would go out
updated database
investigated method for scanning lab notebook - rush

5:30 go home

6:00 eat

6:30 soccer for one child

7:15 CFUW cookbook meeting

http://librarydayinthelife.pbwiki.com/

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A day in the life meme - Day 1

Monday August 5

Civic Holiday in Canada

XRCC Closed

Checked email from home
forwarded a couple of things of interest to various staff
(XRCC staff, not library staff) members

http://librarydayinthelife.pbwiki.com/

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Friday, August 01, 2008

August 1, 2008 10:56 AM PDT Amazon to acquire rare-book site AbeBooks

August 1, 2008 10:56 AM PDT
Amazon to acquire rare-book site AbeBooks

Amazon's book selection is about to grow bigger, older, and rarer. The company announced Friday that it will acquire AbeBooks.com, which specializes in out-of-print book sales.

No financial details of the acquisition were given, but Amazon, headquartered in Seattle, expects the deal to close before the end of its fourth quarter.

British-Columbia based AbeBooks, established in 1996, sells more than 110 million titles of used, rare, and out-of-print books listed by thousands of independent sellers around the world. In 2002, the company began to sell some books through Amazon's Marketplace program, which enabled its 13,500 book sellers to list inventory in Amazon.com's catalog.

Following the acquisition by Amazon, AbeBooks will continue to operate as a stand-alone company and will have control over its global Web sites.

I love Abebooks (but I am not sure I would call them a rare book site, more of a used book site). I love that they are Canadian. Now they are not really Canadian. I hope Amazon leaves them alone.

	Population	Country	G	S	B	T	Gold/ million	Silver/ million	Bronze/ million	Total/ million
1.	2029000	SLO - Slovenia	1	1	2	4	0.4929	0.4929	0.9857	1.9714
2.	3002000	ARM - Armenia			5	5	0.0000	0.0000	1.6656	1.6656
3.	21394309	AUS - Australia	11	10	12	33	0.5142	0.4674	0.5609	1.5425
4.	2714000	JAM - Jamaica	2	2		4	0.7369	0.7369	0.0000	1.4738
5.	4274800	NZL - New Zealand	2	1	3	6	0.4679	0.2339	0.7018	1.4036
6.	9690000	BLR - Belarus	1	3	7	11	0.1032	0.3096	0.7224	1.1352
7.	5489022	DEN - Denmark	2	1	3	6	0.3644	0.1822	0.5465	1.0931
8.	4778500	NOR - Norway	1	2	2	5	0.2093	0.4185	0.4185	1.0464
9.	11268000	CUB - Cuba	1	5	5	11	0.0887	0.4437	0.4437	0.9762
10.	2629000	MGL - Mongolia	1	1		2	0.3804	0.3804	0.0000	0.7607
11.	1333000	TRI - Trinidad/Tobago		1		1	0.0000	0.7502	0.0000	0.7502
12.	1340600	EST - Estonia		1		1	0.0000	0.7459	0.0000	0.7459
13.	5402273	SVK - Slovakia	3	1		4	0.5553	0.1851	0.0000	0.7404
14.	16445000	NED - Netherlands	3	5	4	12	0.1824	0.3040	0.2432	0.7297
15.	4395000	GEO - Georgia	2		1	3	0.4551	0.0000	0.2275	0.6826
16.	7637300	SUI - Switzerland	2		3	5	0.2619	0.0000	0.3928	0.6547
17.	8467000	AZE - Azerbaijan	1	2	2	5	0.1181	0.2362	0.2362	0.5905
18.	5318105	FIN - Finland	1	1	1	3	0.1880	0.1880	0.1880	0.5641
19.	15422000	KAZ - Kazakhstan	1	3	4	8	0.0648	0.1945	0.2594	0.5187
20.	10043000	HUN - Hungary		4	1	5	0.0000	0.3983	0.0996	0.4979
21.	10403136	CZE - <	2	3		5	0.1922	0.2884	0.0000	0.4806
22.	48224000	KOR - Korea	8	9	6	23	0.1659	0.1866	0.1244	0.4769
23.	60587300	GBR - Great Britain	12	7	8	27	0.1981	0.1155	0.1320	0.4456
24.	4555000	CRO - Croatia		1	1	2	0.0000	0.2195	0.2195	0.4391
25.	64473140	FRA - France	4	11	13	28	0.0620	0.1706	0.2016	0.4343
26.	7640238	BUL - Bulgaria	1	1	1	3	0.1309	0.1309	0.1309	0.3927
27.	5317000	KGZ - Kyrgyzstan		1	1	2	0.0000	0.1881	0.1881	0.3762
28.	21438000	ROU - Romania	4	1	3	8	0.1866	0.0466	0.1399	0.3732
29.	8340924	AUT - Austria		1	2	3	0.0000	0.1199	0.2398	0.3597
30.	46059306	UKR - Ukraine	5	3	8	16	0.1086	0.0651	0.1737	0.3474
31.	9215021	SWE - Sweden		3		3	0.0000	0.3256	0.0000	0.3256
32.	59619290	ITA - Italy	6	6	6	18	0.1006	0.1006	0.1006	0.3019
33.	13349000	ZIM - Zimbabwe	1	3		4	0.0749	0.2247	0.0000	0.2996
34.	3343000	PAN - Panama	1			1	0.2991	0.0000	0.0000	0.2991
35.	3361100	LTU - Lithuania			1	1	0.0000	0.0000	0.2975	0.2975
36.	82191000	GER - Germany	9	7	7	23	0.1095	0.0852	0.0852	0.2798
37.	33350000	CAN - Canada	2	3	4	9	0.0600	0.0900	0.1199	0.2699
38.	11147000	GRE - Greece		1	2	3	0.0000	0.0897	0.1794	0.2691
39.	141888900	RUS - Russian Fed.	8	13	15	36	0.0564	0.0916	0.1057	0.2537
40.	23790000	PRK - DPR Korea	2	1	3	6	0.0841	0.0420	0.1261	0.2522
41.	304900000	USA - United States	22	24	26	72	0.0722	0.0787	0.0853	0.2361
42.	4588600	SIN - Singapore		1		1	0.0000	0.2179	0.0000	0.2179
43.	9858000	SRB - Serbia		1	1	2	0.0000	0.1014	0.1014	0.2029
44.	37538000	KEN - Kenya	2	3	2	7	0.0533	0.0799	0.0533	0.1865
45.	38115967	POL - Poland	3	3	1	7	0.0787	0.0787	0.0262	0.1837
46.	46063000	ESP - Spain	3	3	2	8	0.0651	0.0651	0.0434	0.1737
47.	127690000	JPN - Japan	8	5	7	20	0.0627	0.0392	0.0548	0.1566
48.	6585000	TOG - Togo			1	1	0.0000	0.0000	0.1519	0.1519
49.	6736000	TJK - Tajikistan			1	1	0.0000	0.0000	0.1485	0.1485
50.	27372000	UZB - Uzbekistan		1	2	3	0.0000	0.0365	0.0731	0.1096
51.	10327000	TUN - Tunisia	1			1	0.0968	0.0000	0.0000	0.0968
52.	10623000	POR - Portugal		1		1	0.0000	0.0941	0.0000	0.0941
53.	22900000	TPE - Chinese <>			2	2	0.0000	0.0000	0.0873	0.0873
54.	13341000	ECU - Ecuador		1		1	0.0000	0.0750	0.0000	0.0750
55.	16763470	CHI - Chile		1		1	0.0000	0.0597	0.0000	0.0597
56.	33858000	ALG - Algeria		1	1	2	0.0000	0.0295	0.0295	0.0591
57.	18549000	CMR - Cameroon	1			1	0.0539	0.0000	0.0000	0.0539
58.	1325600000	CHN - China	39	14	14	67	0.0294	0.0106	0.0106	0.0505
59.	44513090	COL - Colombia		1	1	2	0.0000	0.0225	0.0225	0.0449
60.	70586256	TUR - Turkey		2	1	3	0.0000	0.0283	0.0142	0.0425
61.	79221000	ETH - Ethiopia	2	1		3	0.0252	0.0126	0.0000	0.0379
62.	27170000	MAS - Malaysia		1		1	0.0000	0.0368	0.0000	0.0368
63.	31224000	MAR - Morocco			1	1	0.0000	0.0000	0.0320	0.0320
64.	187495000	BRA - Brazil	1		5	6	0.0053	0.0000	0.0267	0.0320
65.	40301927	ARG - Argentina			1	1	0.0000	0.0000	0.0248	0.0248
66.	231627000	INA - Indonesia	1	1	3	5	0.0043	0.0043	0.0130	0.0216
67.	47850700	RSA - South Africa		1		1	0.0000	0.0209	0.0000	0.0209
68.	63038247	THA - Thailand	1			1	0.0159	0.0000	0.0000	0.0159
69.	75212000	EGY - Egypt			1	1	0.0000	0.0000	0.0133	0.0133
70.	87375000	VIE - Vietnam		1		1	0.0000	0.0114	0.0000	0.0114
71.	106682500	MEX - Mexico			1	1	0.0000	0.0000	0.0094	0.0094
72.	1136876600	IND - India	1			1	0.0009	0.0000	0.0000	0.0009

Stuff Important to Me

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Word Search Creator

Thursday, August 21, 2008

SLA 23 things Session 4 - Week 8 Online Applications & Tools

SLA 23 things Session 4 - Week 7 Wiki

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Carolyne's Olympic Standings