Although my fingers are pretty sore after writing this entry.
Over the weekend, our household participated in the Orillia Triathlon, Duathlon and Try-a-Tri. A couple of weeks ago, Lynn decided that she was ready to jump back into the triathlon waters with a Try-a-Tri (350m swim, 10k bike, 2.5k …
Posted on Mon 14 August 2006 in Libraries • Tagged with Coding, PHP
Okay, I've been working on this project (let's call it PEAR_MARC, although it's not an official PEAR project yet) in my spare moments over the past month or two. It's a new PHP package for working with MARC records. The package tries to follow the PEAR project standards (coding …
Posted on Fri 04 August 2006 in misc
diaryland.com is a hosting service for people interested in blogging without worrying too much about the technical side of things. It still exists because it predated blogger / blogspot's free services and managed to attract a community consisting of some really great writers, like my friend cloudy.
The problem is …
Just wanted to post a couple of pics we took during the past few weeks.
Walkway over the French River
About a half an hour south of Sudbury on highway 69 is the French River information centre. The centre is brand new and boasts an impressive display on the origins …
Dear Amber:
Little girl, you have a lot of people interested in seeing you; there is no doubt that you are well-loved by friends and family.
Great-grandpa, a.k.a. Dennis
Your great grandpa travelled all the way from St. Catharines to see just how poorly you're being treated here …
On Canada Day, Lynn mentioned the Firecracker 5K race around 5:15 PM as we were driving home from visiting Charlotte's family. Crazy, spontaneous me hemmed and hawed about it for another 45 minutes while ingesting a hot caramel sundae and a spoonful of my freshly made rhubarb crumble, then …
I found out yesterday that one of my colleagues, Alain Letourneau, passed away overnight. He was just 41. He died of a brain hemorrhage after he fell and banged his head while shopping at a local mall.
The crazy thing is that nobody, including Alain himself, really expected him to …
Posted on Tue 20 June 2006 in Libraries • Tagged with Libraries
I was recently given the opportunity to answer a customer satisfaction survey about the vendor of our integrated library system (ILS). It was actually my fourth opportunity, but I had passed up the chance in the past because the survey invitation stated:
You must use Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.x …
I'm sure it has nothing to do with Amber, but my brain has faded into pure fuzziness the past couple of weeks. I'm missing appointments (both work and personal) and frequently wander from one room to the other wondering why I left the other room in the first place. Hell …
Well, after living in Sudbury for five months we had had no visitors... then Amber came along, and--surprise surprise--visitors galore! It's been great seeing so many of our friends and family again, even though my hosting abilities have been put sorely to the test (purely as a result of my …