It’s not April yet, but I’m starting to anticipate the annual ASI conference in San Antonio. I couldn’t attend last year and I really missed it. Since indexing can be solitary even with, online groups, email, listserv, and the like, it’s always great to go hear indexing spoken spontaneously. So many good reasons to go…
Author: sa.fifer
Lover of good, wholesome food and wine. Cooks for one and the cat. Likes to paint-- a frustrated botanical illustrator and amateur (photographer) and fledgling birdwatcher, beekeeper, and Kindle addict. Works as a freelance indexer.
I know it’s not Monday, but…
I’ve been telling myself since very early this morning that today is NOT Monday–it’s Wednesday. No matter, it’s been a functional Monday. First my secondary monitor was displaying everything with a distinct blue (very blue) tint–not good. I need the extra display for this project. Then MSWord crashed several times–I’m embedding the index in MSWord…
How do you phrase that?
I’m working on the index for a collection of excerpts from “The Polar Times” to be published in book form–kind of hitting the high spots from 1936 to date. Most of the excerpts are from newspaper articles that were reprinted in “The Polar Times”. This has provided some interesting possibilities in terms of entries. An…
A good break is…
Even when you have an ergonomically sound workstation, you need to do more for prevention. Some precautions on your part will help prevent strain and/or overuse syndromes. There is something very simple you can do to help prevent overuse: just take a break! It’s that simple, and your computer can even help you do it! I…
Laptop versus lap
I posted some time ago about preventing loss of work by cat-proofing your computer with PawSense. This is just an update on my experiences with cat and computer. The PawSense software really does protect work–it responds very quickly to cat-like typing. I worked through the selection of sounds to “annoy” the cat and chase him off the…
Index for “The Polar Times”
It’s a relief to have a cat-proof computer as I’m now editing/proofreading scanned excerpts from The Polar Times for a 75th anniversary publication. The excerpts are coming to me as MS Word documents. I’m doing some formatting and checking for OCR errors, and preparing an index. My indexing software, CINDEX®, is making the embedding easy! It’s a…
Cat-proof computer!
Quite some time ago, I posted about assessing the risk of losing work, cat proofing software, and backup of work. At the time the Keiko (the cat who was with me until 15 December 2011) just was not really a threat when it came to walking on the keyboard. Sadly, Keiko had adenocarcinoma of the…
I’ve had an interesting work day–The Polar Times is fascinating to read the scanned excerpts–even proofreading. It should be even better while doing the index when I can read entire articles. But I had some unexpected help–this is NOT my idea of break-timer “software”, nor adult supervision.
Keeping on task while working…
I’m doing some proofing (for OCR errors) for some excerpts from The Polar Times and I have the original documents to proof from. It’s taking a lot of willpower for me not to just go off and read the whole issue. This is going to be a really interesting project.
I’m a computer addict!
I’m not only dependent on my computer for work, I’m a computer addict, not because I know what HID is, or occasionally babble about a “cold boot” or “packet loss”, but because the computer has inveigled its way into even everyday shopping for things like cat litter! For years I used the “World’s Best Cat Litter” and…
Graffito Indexing 