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Month: June 2007

Worst Trip Ever

Published by Iris on Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

I’ve been unplugged for a lot longer than I thought I would. I thought I was traveling home for the weekend to attend my sister’s graduation (she graduated with highest honors, by the way!). But as it turned out, I was starting out on the worst car trip ever. On the way there, my cat had an asthma attack (only his second in two years) in the Middle of No Where Wisconsin. It took my dad, his internet connection, and my cell phone to finally find a vet 30 miles away who could see him and shoot him full of steroids.

Then came the graduation, which was nice.

Then on Monday I started out to drive home, but wrecked my car instead. I did it not even half a mile from my parents’ house, and I didn’t hurt any one else or anything else, which is good. But I did completely wreck my car, and suffered the effects of being hit in the head by an air bag. I don’t recommend it.

But I’m home again and fine, except for being kind of shaken up. I’m hoping for a really, truly, bone-numbingly boring rest of the week.

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It’s Not a Secret Any More

Published by Iris on Thursday, June 7th, 2007

For the past week or so I’ve been working on a “secret” project. What is this secret project, you ask? Well, a few motivated people thought ALA needed some shaking up, so they’re putting together the first online unconference associate with ALA annual. It’s the Social Software Showcase (still under construction), and it features 11 short “presentations” about emerging technologies.

I’m doing the presentation on Meebo Rooms, and my name is listed there right next to people who’s names make my eyes pop right out of my head! I had NO idea. None. Wow! (Now I’ll have to spy on their presentations as they go live and make sure mine isn’t totally lame in comparison.) But lame or not, here are the relevant links:

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Doing Freakishly Cool Things with Social Image Tagging

Published by Iris on Tuesday, June 5th, 2007

Well, I’d thought things would be less busy for me this week, but it seems that I have one more week of crunch time before life settles down. Such is life, I guess. Or such is my life, at any rate.

But while you sit and ponder how lovely it’ll be when I start really blogging again, you can pass the time by watching this video. All I can say is, “Wow… Wowy-wow-wow-wow.”

I’ve now subscribed to the TED talk videos. (Here’s the feed, which was surprisingly difficult to find.)

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