Archive for April, 2006

Whither the information professional?

Thursday, April 20th, 2006

Try learning a new acronym like XAML. The XAML entry in Wikipedia starts with the following sentence (including the links):
XAML (short for Extensible Application Markup Language, and pronounced “Zammel”) is the user interface markup language for the Windows Presentation Foundation, which is one of the “pillars” of the WinFX API.
One does not have to follow […]

Things that sit on top of things

Thursday, April 6th, 2006

Federated searching. Integrated searching. Solutions to our expanding, fragmented information world. Nothing new. We’ve heard about these before. The sales reps at the vendor demos today called these stuff “tools that sit on top of what you already have.”
Yeah. I sat in two vendor demos today at the 2006 Oregon Library Association Conference. Partly out […]

Possibilities

Sunday, April 2nd, 2006

Two events got me thinking about surpassing limitations this week: watching Cirque Du Soleil’s Varekai and listening to award-winning author Jane Kirkpatrick.
In Varekai, how can such magic, beauty, and soaring emotions be created like that on stage, in many places, for thousands of people? Did Guy Lalibert ever dream in 1984 that his small band […]