JET

I couldn't agree more... but... really? OMFG.

Fri, 7 May 2010 08:30:14 CDT

How fancy should it be? Do you want to woo your prospects and the public with a spectacular website? Well, statistically, that is not very important. A clean looking website, professionally built, with all of the important information about your business and some basic functionality is what is the most effective.

- Cronys.com

Trust me.
Click the link and browse their clients' sites.

Life is hectic right and this blog is boring.

Fri, 23 Apr 2010 09:28:04 CDT

It's the end of semester, I'm spending a lot of (very pleasant) time with a new friend, and work is pretty busy right now. I find that I have absolutely nothing specific to blog about, and I'm not even going to any effort to post that many random funny things on here.

I'm kind of considering just consolidating this blog with another one that I have under the other one's domain name (not that I update either one... but it's cranialmeltdown.com), revamping the design, and reserving this domain name for something a little more professional. (I also own jonathantweedy.com and do absolutely nothing with it.)

Found through a fellow SLISer's Facebook status...

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 11:44:53 CDT

Sexy Librarian Stats from gawker.com

Urrgggghhh

Sun, 11 Apr 2010 06:24:25 CDT

This semester needs to end. One class is boring the other one is just... well... I'm just ready for them to be over. At least the "other" one is interesting to attend and my project group is cool. The XML one is just plain boring and I feel behind even though conceptually I understand everything completely. I just have no idea what I really want to do for the final project, and I feel like I'm running out of weekend and evening time to whip something up.

Social life's looking up though. Maybe that's why I'm so annoyed by these classes. I'm also going to start making student loan payments (for long-term financial reasons), which is also removing THAT motivation for staying in school at all... which is in turn motivating me to drop out of the SpLIS program. (I mean what the hell is a "specialist" anyway?) I originally thought it was a segue into the PhD program, but have decided pretty firmly in the last year that a research-oriented degree is exactly NOT what I need.

Desperation

Mon, 5 Apr 2010 06:17:03 CDT

Not mine. Theirs. Some of the strongest, most independent women I've met are a lot less mouthy about it than this.

I admit it... I have nothing better to blog about these days. I'm tired of politics (was never really informed or even that invested to begin with), sick of school, enjoying my social life a lot more now, and just generally keeping busier outside of the internet.

Maybe everything'll go down the tubes again in a few more weeks and I'll start writing random shit again.

From Dilbert - Web Site Redesign

Thu, 1 Apr 2010 11:25:49 CDT

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Sigh

Tue, 30 Mar 2010 03:18:58 CDT

Today at work, someone sent me a link to this (yep, the home page, even)...

http://www.webmasterkit.info/

... because she liked one of the arrow images found in one of the documents full of free clip art found here...

http://www.vectorjunky.com/keys-download_arrow_vector-page2.html

All to replace a nice, neat little set of arrow boxes that existed before using CSS and < and > symbols with hover effects.

SIGH.

I am dying to figure out how she made this connection. As a fun extra, she apparently didn't recognize what I originally sent her ("that site you sent me") as a set of Google results. Any yet she has very specific opinions about the web site.

Find a niche, dig up a little information about it by scraping the web, and you've got a web site.

Sun, 21 Mar 2010 09:23:32 CDT

For example...

Roller skating rinks don't tend to have good web sites. So what can you do? Scrape the web for roller rink information, and plop it into what looks deceivingly like "custom" rink info pages:

http://www.rinktime.com/skating_rinks/in/cruzers_roller_rink_skating_rink_arena_island_city_in.cfm

http://www.rinktime.com/skating_rinks/in/western_skateland_skating_rink_arena_bloomington_in.cfm

Think he'll make it?

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:50:18 CDT

Someone sent this and it made me chuckle...

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Note
I'm pretty sure this is a fake, BUT it is interesting to note that I've read from several places now that it's NOT a scene from ER.

This post is going to sound racist.

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:39:20 CST

I have a few filtering policies for recruiting phone calls that I get, and one that gets some flack if I mention it to friends (most of my friends are pretty liberal) is that I immediately delete voicemails as soon as I know that they're a) from recruiters, and b) from Indians. If they're recruiters with American accents (European, though that's never happened), I listen to the message unless I'm already familiar with their name. (In fact, the more southern, the more likely I am to hold on for... uh... the punchline?)

This policy is not because I have a problem with Indians. On the contrary, (1) I've known quite a few who have been good students and hard workers in SLIS, and (2) I used to have at least a half dozen reasonably good friends from India and Pakistan through two particularly good friends at UNC Greensboro. My problem is with shithead recruiters who scour the internet for jobs, find one that very vaguely matches your resume (even if its the equivalent of trying to recruit Zidane for a badminton team), and then try to sell you on it as if they somehow have an explicit relationship with the company - very frequently flat-out lying (wouldn't that be fraud?) and calling them their "client".

Therefore, for the same reason that I ignore emails from people claiming to be businessmen and lawyers from Africa before I've even read the part about the dead rich relative, I also ignore communications from Indians inquiring about my availability for positions.

I also ignore douchebag-sounding guys who say my name too much: "Hi Jonathan. Jonathan, this is [Brad/Chip/...] from [...Tech... Recruiting]. Jonathan, I just wanted to touch base with you and find out where you stand with regards to your job search because, Jonathan, I have a client with a dynamic and promising position in web design with a company with a nine-year history of helping new start-ups develop a presence on the web. Jonathan, if you could just give me a call back at [555-555-5555, extension 5], I'd like to talk to you about your situation and see if you'd be interested. Thanks Jonathan."

I knew the one this morning was a gem because he said my name back to back the first time he repeated it.

But at least he didn't pick on me like Joe Goddard from Cardinal Resources. (Joe started insulting my manhood and teasing my about my (presumed) salary after I told him what a bad recruiter he was about two years ago. He still auto-sends job recruiting emails to me on a pretty regular basis, despite threateningly to physically injure me if we ever met.) Note that I DIDN'T refrain from publishing HIS name. The guy who left the message this morning hasn't pissed me off that much... he's just like every other douchebag trying to make a buck by injecting himself as a superfluous middleman in an otherwise perfectly accessible direct hire.