putting the rarin back in librarian since 1999
I don’t use AI on this blog (or any of my writing) to the best of my knowledge. I know other people use AI for various reasons and this is not me picking a fight with them; this is me talking about my process. I acknowledge that I probably don’t know every single AI-using aspect of the tools that I use. Continue reading “Statement on AI”
I am late to every technology party, so let me talk about being late to this one. The Apple Watch came out in 2015 and I got mine (a used one, from someone local who had upgraded) for $75 a few months ago. The tipping point for me were two specific things. Continue reading “Finally got an Apple Watch, it’s okay”
It’s been a time. I have been talking a bit on social media but mostly just out and about trying to be useful. Everyone’s going through it. I’ve been getting to the point where I’ve got a bit of capacity and have been cleaning off my real and virtual desktops and came across this bit of a shared talk I gave with a friend for Public Philosophy Week back in April. He did the hardware stuff, talking about the tool that is a computer, and how it can really only do what it was designed to do (abbreviated POSIWID – the purpose of a system is what it does). I did the other part. Very few slides but you can view the ones we used here they’re mostly not necessary to the talk but some of them are fun. Here is the part of the talk that I gave.
A user interface is basically any way of interacting with a computer. A command line is a user interface it’s just not a GRAPHICAL one….
Continue reading “Talk: We have always been at war with computers”
I got an ISSN for no real reason. Richard pointed out on Mastodon that you can get an ISSN for a blog as long as it’s not a personal blog. I have a personal blog and it’s not this one. So I got an ISSN for this, partly just to learn the process. It was very simple, just walking through some steps on an LOC website. I applied on November 24th and received my number today.
My ISSN is 3066-120X.
My drop-in time work used to be a lot of teaching basic skills. “Here’s how to click. Now here’s how to right-click.” Then for a time it was teaching people about software. “Here’s how a menu works in Microsoft Word.” Then it was more about social media, then mobile phones. Lately it’s still a bit of all of those things, but the major thing I do is something I call “How do I connect this to that?” Continue reading “Connecting this to that”