Laurabelle's Blog

Today Karen and I conducted the first successful test of the new telephone notification system. That is, it was the first test, and it happened to be successful. It was kind of silly that I hadn't figured out beforehand how to turn on the notices, but really it was just that I hadn't asked Karen [...]

On the way back from the grocery store this evening, I stalled the car several times in the left turn lane at one intersection. I couldn't manage to get going during that light cycle, so I motioned for the cars behind me to go around. Just as the light turned red, a Toyota pickup pulled [...]

A fellow MHC alumna was both the cause and the means for my move to Seattle two years ago. When I mentioned that I was considering librarianship, she told me about the iSchool and how much she enjoyed it her time there. I applied because of her enthusiasm, and then I accepted for the same [...]

So I finally managed to solve the little problem I had with text boxes being too large. I tried everything and couldn't shrink it at all. And now it's fixed itself. What's the difference? I didn't use kdm (the KDE login manager). Of course xdm didn't work either, so I'm going back to using startx. [...]

Quoting from memory: Victor: I wanted you to meet my family. I wanted you to meet my crazy grandma and my bitchy sister. Judy: Why? Victor: 'Cause that's me. Good movie. Go check it out from your local library.

Jeff is teaching me to drive a manual transmission, so today I drove to the grocery store and back. To the store is downhill; back home is uphill. Keep in mind that I have not been driving stick-shift very long, and I'm still kind of getting used to where the catch-point is, and I have [...]

Mountain Day is Mount Holyoke's fall floating holiday. No one but the President of the College knows when it's going to be; everyone else wakes up one morning, and class is cancelled. It is a day of great rejoicing. Today is Mountain Day. I'm happy for them... but I still have to go to work. [...]

I haven't been blogging much lately, partly because I don't have any time (argh), but also because almost the only thing happening in my life is work, and I can't talk about most of what I'm doing. This stuff isn't top-secret or anything; it's just that what I would like to do is complain about [...]

I freed nearly 2 gigabytes on my /home partition today, merely by gzipping my procmail log. (It compressed all the way down to 7MB.) It's quite a good thing I did, too, because before I deleted some other stuff I was at 95% of my disk capacity. I would soon have run completely out of [...]

Dorothea thinks call number searches are mislabeled, that users don't know what a call number is or what it could be used for, and she does have a point. The real problem is that this capability simply does not belong in the initial search screen! What do you do when you browse in service of [...]