Scholarly Life of a Committed Technofile

Now that I’ve understood what Greasemonkey does for about two weeks, I’m still trying to find scripts and play with it. This Adaptive Blue seems like another page adapter.
Greasemonkey
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748
Greasemonkey is one of the many wonderful Firefox addons. Once you load Greasemonkey on your browser you get a little monkey face in the lower [...]

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I’m sure by this point you are probably asking yourself about the “real” reason I went to CCCCs, to learn from my colleagues. Or in other words, “Shelley, did you go to any panels?” Yes, yes I did. However, I’m not going to be blogging about the panels in my blog. Instead, I’m going to [...]

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(beware…my frustration leads to the blatantly horrible mixing of metaphors)
I’m beginning to feel like my social bookmarking crusade is turning into the continued beating of a dead horse who sure as hell doesn’t want to drink the damn water. I was a huge fan of Furl for years. And as I got more interested in [...]

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Well…I had good intentions. I got some pictures (notice, however, I’m not alone in cccc07 pics). Stacey got one video up to YouTube. But I didn’t do any audio recording. And that is what my Podcasting FPLC really wanted me to do! I think Duku’s speech during the opening session helped me to understand why [...]

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…Sephora!
Susan, Deb and I made our second annual CCCCs Sephora trip. Honestly, it’s just an excuse to leave the conference hotel, see the city a bit, and buy some lip gloss. We missed Cheryl and look forward to her coming with us again while at NCTE this fall (who knows, maybe we’ll hit shoes, colored [...]

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I hope my colleague Richard doesn’t read this entry; he would be very angry!
Susan and I have giggled about how we barely have to spend any money on food at CCCCs. Between the various breakfasts we pay to attend (WPA, see later post & TYCA, oops, slept in this year) and the Textbook Company parties [...]

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Joe and I “opened” the Newcomer’s Welcome booth at 9:00am Wednesday morning at CCCCs. Well, at least we tried. Since we didn’t have a booth until about 9:55am, we hung out, chatted, said “hi” to people we hadn’t seen in a year, etc. Once the booth got set up we spent the last 5 minutes [...]

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I know this. Really, I do. However, like so many people today I still get caught up equating the term “technology” with “computer technologies.” Or, I know that they are not the same; however, I am very guilty of saying “technology” and meaning “computer technology.” This last week in NYC, I had the visceral reminder [...]

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I didn’t do much conference related stuff today. I was scheduled to sit at the newcomer’s booth from 9-10am. The booth didn’t get set up until 10am. So I sat and chatted with a colleague for an hour. I then helped hang the newcomer’s table sign with paperclips. Of course, I forgot to take a [...]

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I wish I had taken a picture; however, I’m not sure I could/can. (Another to-do, what are the ramifications of taking pictures of people, posting them to flickr, and then blogging about them?). Anyhow, so I had just come through security at the airport and looked up at a white man in a suite getting [...]

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