Category: Uncategorized

8 Steps for Keeping Current. ALA has posted Steven Cohen's article “8 Steps for Keeping Current” (PDF).  Steven is generally brilliant, and this article is no exception.  If you're a manager or administrator, front line librarian, back-room library staff, or my mom, you'll find this article useful.  My favorite (perhaps because it appeals to the… Continue reading 8 Steps for Keeping Current

Jobs tips. Jobs tips: Gretchen Ledgard of Microsoft HR has added a bunch of hiring tips under the “Suggestion Kitty” heading here… both she and Heather Leigh have handled lots of resumes and interviews, so their advice is uniquely useful. (Macromedia is doing a lot of hiring these days, too.)  [JD on MX]

Exodus of young to England revealed by census study. The extent to which Scotland's young are heading south to seek work was laid bare yesterday by a new report. [The Scotsman]

Seven Ways to Avoid Disaster in Your Disaster Recovery Planning and Procedures. What's worse than a disaster? How about doubling your disaster with a disastrous set of discovery plans, policies and procedures? While no plan can account for every contingency or be totally bullet-proof, the following seven steps will help you avoid adding insult to… Continue reading Seven Ways to Avoid Disaster in Your Disaster Recovery Planning and Procedures

Lucene in Action: Meet Lucene Pt. 1. Lucene is a a highly scalable, fast search engine. With high performance and ease of use, you will learn how to index your data, including MS Word, PDF, HTML, and XML. You'll also learn about searching, sorting, filtering, and highlighting search results. By Manning Publications.  [WebReference News]

InfoWorld: Where was desktop search when we needed it? Jon Udell. For lots of people I know, any one of these choices will produce a life-changing productivity boost. For me, though, that's no longer true. The Gmail experiment has become a lifestyle choice. I still maintain a local Outlook mail store, and it's indexed several… Continue reading Where was desktop search when we needed it?

Help for Digital Pack Rats. More people are saving their computer files in an online bank, helping to inject life into the niche Internet storage market. But as the price of hard drives drops, can the market thrive? By BOB TEDESCHI. [NYT > Technology]

Forecasting, timing cut storm's punch. The Blizzard of 2005 elbowed its way into the record books this weekend with blinding snow, howling winds, and frigid temperatures. But unlike some past major snowstorms, it didn't cripple wide swaths of the state, thanks in part to better forecasting and good timing. [Boston Globe — Front Page]

Winter whopper buries region. The Blizzard of 2005 delivered a staggering blow to much of Eastern Massachusetts yesterday, dropping more than 3 feet of snow in some places and whipping it into towering drifts with howling gusts that topped 80 miles per hour along the coast. [Boston Globe — Front Page]

It's back to the Super Bowl. PITTSBURGH — These Patriot playoff wins are like Ray Charles songs, Nantucket sunsets, and hot fudge sundaes. Each one is better than the last. [Boston Globe — Front Page]