Deconstructing the indexing process

Wed, 5 Feb 2003

This week my cataloging professor, Jens-Erik Mai, assigned us to read, among other things, an article which he wrote several years ago entitled Deconstructing the Indexing Process. In this article he discusses a lot of the problems with current indexing standards and theories. In reference to the ISO standard, he says: Furthermore, neither of these standard [...]

Broken browser rant

Wed, 5 Feb 2003

Generally I do my best to make sure that my web pages are accessible in a wide variety of browsers. However, occasionally when a modern browser neglects to support some bit of HTML or CSS, I make a conscious decision to leave it be, and possibly to make people more aware of the suckiness of [...]

Test schmest

Wed, 5 Feb 2003

Today I had my first test in about three years (well, other than the language tests given by the University of Hamburg, and those don't really count because they were so easy), and I did very very badly in it. It was for my preservation and conservation class, and I'm pretty sure I've failed, which [...]