I finally decided to upload and make public my Curriculum Vitae. I've thought a lot about this, but since it is the season for applying for positions, and that is a pretty public experience, I figured that I'd share it with the world. Sorry for it being 90k. It is a word > windows document in XML, and as Salmon knows, it takes for ever to exorcise XML from Word > html documents. Please let me know if you see any typos or errors, since most of you who read this blog are mentioned in it somewhere. But don't worry about the missing ). from time to time. That's something that Word does as a special touch of its own that I can't remove. Ugh. Ok, I get the picture. Here it is in .doc and .rtf as well
Microsoft reveals another 'critical' flaw
Redmond, Wash. %uFFD1 Microsoft Corp. disclosed a security flaw Thursday of "critical" severity in its Outlook Express e-mail programs.The flaw, which affects the free e-mail software bundled in Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser, could allow attackers to crash the e-mail program or to potentially take over the user's machine.
Last week I sent an email out to the University of Guelph Archives:
> I'm looking for the following item in the archives "Summary list of
> books in L.M. Montgomery's personal library / compiled by Mary
> Doody-Jones." Call number XZ1 MS A094176 in box Box 01A.
And I started to beg Rochelle to get it for me, and mail it, and I'd cover costs &c. But LO! I get a wonderful response from one of the folks there saying that they're mailing it to me, no charge!!! It just doesn't feel like the start of the 21st century when you get a wonderful response like that, does it?
We had our BUL (Bell University Labs) demo of Project Achieve last night. Kat and Muddy helped out, probably thought they were just sitting there doing nothing, but *looking* involved and engaged is what it is about, and we very appreciated. Various Bell and higher UofT admin d00ds came by to see what we're doing, and were suitably impressed.
Then we found the food. Shucked oysters, shrimp and salmon on sticks. Varous things on various breads and pasteries. Wine and such. It just didn't feel like I was in the humanities any more.
And the night ended when I found Kat and Mud playing with the 60" digital whiteboard... playing solitaire and watching quicktime trailers for various movies. Finally, people who understand how to make technology meaningful.