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Last week I posted a note to the Code4Lib mailing list, alerting that community to the lawsuit that Reuters has brought against George Mason University and the Zotero project.   Used a personal email address and made no mention of the fact that I work at Mason.  I thought the Code4Lib community would get excited–I mean, it’s not every day that a world-class piece of open source software gets developed to solve a library-related problem.

To be fair, there was a blip on the interest meter….seventeen postings followed my original message.  Sadly, there was very little outrage in the postings and too many consisted of people explaining why Reuters might have a case.  Disappointing compared to other posts I found out on the net (thank you Bruce and Peter and Dorothea).  Time to dig up that unsubscribe syntax.

Am I overreacting?  Maybe…I’m closer to the Zotero project than many but that’s not what pushed me to drop my Code4Lib subscription.   In roughly the same time frame, there have been 61+ messages reacting positively to Roy Tennant from OCLC who asked, “Are we at the point where we’re ready to establish an official graphic identity? I think so.”

Go for it.

Seems it’s been a month since the last post. Haven’t consciously abandoned making entries but I am going to have to try and rebuild the habit. Let’s try this …

I have been working with an Asus eeePC 1000 quite a bit lately and it’s a great machine. I remain a fan of the original (4G aka 701) but the 1000 keeps almost everything that was great about that unit and improves the one area that kept me from making more frequent use of it: a larger keyboard.

Like: larger keyboard (92% of a full-sized keyboard), 1024×600 10″ screen, 1.6Ghz Intel Atom N270 CPU, bluetooth, longer battery life, 40GB SSD and 802.11n networking.

Not: It’s larger and weighs more (the 701 was 7″x 9″ and weighed just 2 pounds; the 1000 is roughly 7.5″x 10″ and weighs 3 pounds).

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