I’m No Antidigitalist: a song about GormanGate

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Last week, as I was reading and responding to everyone’s responses to Michael Gorman’s blog posts, I re-read a couple of the posts myself… and this phrase from his earlier “blog people” article started running through my head … and wouldn’t leave.So I did what any self-respecting closet musician would do on his [...]

I Just Updated My Wordpress Theme

I just followed through on my threat and updated my blog. So I’m now using Wordpress 2.2, and I’m now using widgets (way cool easy way to move stuff around in my two sidebars). And I have a new visual design (thanks to a Wordpress theme this time).
I’ve been wanting to move to two sidebars [...]

Bad United Airlines Customer Experience

This post starts out describing a bad customer service experience I had, then turns my whining into five things you should think about in your library.
First, for the story:I spoke at New York Public Library a few weeks ago. After my presentation, I decided to show up early at the airport, so I could work [...]

Spring Cleaning at davidleeking.com

Just a little fyi for those of you who frequent my blog via the website rather than the RSS feed…
I plan on playing around with some different themes, so my old green/yellow theme will be going bye-bye. I’ll most likely use a “pre-made” theme this time around, and tweak as needed. Much easier (since I [...]

Fun with my New Mac and File Conversion

Update: Yep - it was the Word 2007 problem. On the Mac, I saved the
file as a normal Word XP doc and as a normal Open Office doc (and
emailed the text to myself as well) - all worked perfectly!
I’m another one of those pesky new mac owners… and I’ve been experimenting with something on and [...]

Non-Library Blogs Meme

I’ve been tagged in this non-library blogs meme thing at least twice now, so I feel I must respond! Here are five of my favorite non-library blogs that I’m reading right now:

Read/WriteWeb - great stuff about web 2.0 and emerging trends. Tends to go more in-depth than other emerging trend blogs, which I like.
Daily Dilbert [...]

Library Journal Movers and Shakers List is Out

Congratulations to all the 2007 Movers and Shakers! I actually know four of them: Michael Casey, Helene Blowers, Amanda Etches-Johnson, and Gina Millsap (my library’s director - how cool is that?).
Way to go, everyone! It’s always great to work with, speak with, and blog with such awesome people.

Helping a Friend

From a friend of mine, “Just curious if you know of anyone in the University community who is capable of translating Iranian Arabic script?”
He’s a military friend who just got back from Iraq, took some photos, and is now wondering what those photos say.
Can anyone help? If so, please email me - davidleeking at gmail [...]

Changing Case Shortcut in Microsoft Word

Just a reminder to myself - SHIFT-F3 toggles text between first letter uppercase, all upper case, and all lower case.

just a test

just upgraded to wordpress 2.0.6… ignore this!

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