This whole process of having to replace the hard drive in my primary indexing computer has been most instructive–it’s served to make me assess and reassess what software is really necessary for a safe, happy, healthy work environment. I haven’t reinstalled PawSense yet–and there’s a really good reason why not. It was very efficient in…
Category: Musings
Thought provoking things…
ASI Conference in San Antonio, Texas
It’s been a good trip to Texas–once I escaped from Denver and finally got here. Talk about time travel! Wednesday was a pretty strange day: leave Durham NC (Eastern time zone) in pleasant spring weather; arrive Denver CO in 28 degrees Fahrenheit, snow, freezing rain–all on Mountain time. A cancelled flight, and several delays to…
ASI conference coming up!
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…
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…
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…
The CAT did it?
As I go about setting up for freelance work as an indexer, all sorts of things keep popping up that I realize I haven’t considered yet in terms of consequences to my work. This whole chain of thought started when I saw a post on CINDEX users list about the incident of the cat on…
Graffito Indexing 