Optimizing Images for the Web

Summary of Optimizing Images for the Web (session led by Stephen Naron) is on other blog (excerpt: "Try to keep graphic files less than 35K in size. Standard resolution for Web graphics is 72 dpi. Aim for graphic not larger than 600 pixels. More than that may require scrolling on smaller monitors. TIF ideal for high-fidelity masters; GIF for text-heavy images; JPEG for downsized photographs.")

Note (12/13/07): at office workstation, use Irfanview for cropping, resizing, etc., but MS Paint for drawing.

Old Lyme

Bee & Thistle Inn built 1756 as residence for Judge William Noyes.

Florence Griswold Museum traces back to 1899 when Henry Ward Ranger arrives at Florence Griswold to draw landscape. Joined by other artists, Lyme Art Colony founded.

Summer exhibitions: "A Deaf Artist in Early America: The Worlds of John Brewster, Jr."

and "The Freedom Business: Connecticut Landscapes Through the Eyes of Venture Smith" featuring poems of Marilyn Nelson

Candy and Keith Green's Old Lyme Inn offers rooms and dining.

Hammonassett State Park 20 minutes south on I-95 in Madison.

Leary biography reviewed on WorldCat

Just posted my first review to worldcat.org ... on Robert Greenfield's biography of Timothy Leary.

2006 Annual Meeting

ASIST 2006 Annual Meeting to be held in Austin Texas, Nov. 3-8. Plenary speakers are Susan Dumais, Senior Researcher at Microsoft's Adaptive Systems and Interactions Group, and Albert Laszlo Barabasi, author of Linked: the New Science of Networks (2002), and professor of physics at University of Notre Dame.

ed2go online courses

ed2go Intro to PHP and MySQL

Treo 700p, Sprint, etc.

2006-07-19

Treo Cases: JAVOShield was bulky, and belt clips cheaply made (I broke 2 or 3 within a few weeks). Sena case is excellent, except flip cover hinges at the bottom, and magnets at the top are easily separated by brushing up against objects. Most comprehensive listings seem to be Treonauts, Palm Infocenter, and Everything Treo.

Yale Connect: Set up GoodLink account with Yale ITS.

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Service Plans: Currently have Treo 755p through Sprint. Press *2 to check term expiration: June 10, 2008. Current fee $67.99. "Simply Everything Plan" is $100 plus fee for second line.

Yale Workstation

2006-06-07
Software available through ITS

2006-04-27
Today began using ITS's Central Backup service. Followed instructions for Scheduler. Leave computer on overnight, and confirm tomorrow that backup took place.

Horde PHP-based Unicode-compliant IMPv4 (Internet Messaging Program) the new guts of Yale Webmail. Use account mangement tool for activiting email auto-replies.

[2005 07 25]
View Yale Library Calendars to find out what's happening at Mudd SCML, CCL electronic classroom, etc.

[2005-04-21]
SAC-FAST on mailman.yale.edu.

[2004-10-28]
meetingmaker (Java client); MM system status



[2004-11-04]
Windows 2000 Keyboard Shortcuts Reference See also Microsoft's own support page. Neither of these discuss how to switch field orientation. Also try this site, which includes specific key combinations for invoking language support features.

[2004 10 17]
Staff Center for Multimedia Learning (SCML) online calendar
ALCTS/SAC-PCC/SCT Joint Initiative on Subject Training Materials


[2004 08 13]
Endeavor Knowledge Base. See QuickWord for User ID/Password

[2004 10 28]

Computer seems to have died. Workstation Support Group keeps changing its name, so I have trouble finding their website on Google. I think they're now called "Web, Worksation & Digitial Consulting Services"(WWS). In any case, here's a link to their
Software & Hardware documentation.

Extreme Markup Languages 2006

August 7-11, 2006 in Montreal: a conference on (mostly XML-based it seems) Extreme Markup Languages,

Travel Notes

7/7/06: See Travel Web page

Yale workstation, Remote access
Yale Webmail has account mangement tool for activiting email auto-replies. Meeting maker accessable via Java client

Yale Travel
New policies and forms posted at LHR Web site. Reserve, where possible, through Orbitz. Leave copy of itinerary with department. Submit expense reports to EMS within ten days of return. Original receipts need to be submitted. (See also: official Yale travel policy PDF document).

AJL
AJL 2006 Convention taking place June 18th through June 21st at Hyatt Regency Cambridge Hotel, 575 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, tel: 1-888-421-1442. There's a Preliminary Conference Program online, and some people have started a convention blog.

Book Amtrak via Yale Travel. Actually, call Orbitz (no service fee) at 1-877-ORBITZ-1 (672-4891), since booking not yet automated through Orbitz website). Destination: Boston South Station (Corner of Summer Street and Atlantic Avenue, Dewey Square, Downtown Boston); then Red Line (southwest toward Alewife) from there to Cambridge. Kendall Station is closest to Memorial Drive (where, heading left (West) along Charles River leads to hotel). But still not very close.

ALA
[2005-03-03]
ALA New Orleans, June 22-June 28, 2006. Drive between Louis Armstrong Airport and Bourbon St. takes about 26 minutes. Stay at New Orleans Marriott, 555 Canal Street, phone: 504-581-1000. ALCTS: Events by Day and Time.


Makes sense to register this time as member of the press. ALA Conference site has some information on press credentials, but doesn't say how to submit application, or how much the press pass costs. Called Lara at ALA 1-800-545-2433, ext. 5043. She wants me to fax galley proof to 1-312-280-5274, plus send another email message.

[2005-01-03]
Suspend UPS delivery; And USPS. Mail will accumulate at Brewery Street station (50 Brewery St., 782-7000). This doesn't always work, but sometimes you can also suspend New York Times delivery via their Web site.

[2005-05-05]
Template for Administrative Travel reimbursement, and link to various LHR forms.

ALA 2005 Chicago. Club Quarters Chicago (Central Loop). Download reservation from Yale Travel Services, or Yale etravel. Phone 764-9200 or 432-9911 FAX 764-9215 96 Grove St. New Haven, CT 06510

Here's the government source for determing per diem rates for meals.

Get directions from Mapquest or Yahoo Maps

Stupid Engineering Mistakes (Wired)

These are disturbing

Canned Searches in Orbis

[2005-06-29]

ILTS documentation on constructing canned Orbis searches in HTML. Useful for providing examples when writing documentation. See also Texas A&M's Canned Search Generator .

Categories: Orbis, Voyager, documentation

Addison van Name

Trying to track down Addison van Name paper cited in "Proceedings of the Thousands Islands Conference of the ALA", published in Library Journal vol. 12, 1887, and cited recently by Judy Schiff. Yale copies of Library Journal don't go back far enough. Periodicals Index Online gives me a sufficiently detailed record to make an ILL request.

Grove St.

[2006-06-07] Missed Nooks and Crannies tour, but still want to visit the Center Church Crypt at some point. Some highlights from the Crypt home page: Theophilus Eaton (who's tabular stone is at Grove, Benedict Arnold's first wife Margaret, a few members of President Rutherford Hayes' family, Sarah Whiting, 1669-1726, “The painful mother of eight children of whom six survive.” She was described as “faithful, virtuous and weary.” For more information, see Bicentennial Publication (swf)


[2005-04-20]
Posted review of Curtis Patton talk on Diversity Blog.

[2005-08-20]
Keeping track of notes on Pantheon page.

[2005-08-02]
Aug. 2nd AP article on Japanese students visiting Dartmouth and Yale to learn about Kanichi Asakawa. Some details here I hadn't heard before, for example, "Asakawa translated the centuries-old 'Documents of Iriki,' which allowed English scholars to study Japanese feudal history. He donated 45,000 volumes of Japanese texts to the Library of Congress and more than 21,000 to Yale, forming the foundation of their Japanese collections."

Grove Street Cemetery home page, and list of notables with map.

[2005-05-27]

Note listings in Explore Connecticut Guide; also see Connecticut Sons of the American Revolution for list of patriots. Familiar names include Roger Sherman, David Humphreys, Israel Putman, and Nathan Hale.

Categories: Grove_Street_Cemetery, New_Haven, Yale

[2004-11-20]

Leonard Bacon Program with papers by Judith Schiff, David Musto, Howard Lamar, et al.

[2004-10-16]
Grove Street notables per Wikipedia(?) Would be good to develop Amistad thread, in context of larger discussion of abolitionism. (Primary documents are available through National Archives and Records Administration.) New Haven connection to events of 1839/1840 is compelling: Mende captives held in New Haven jail; New Haven resident Roger Sherman Baldwin was defense attorney (along with John Quincy adams once it got to the Supreme Court);

[2004-10-17]

Based on conversatons with members of the West Haven Historical Society (during today's tour led by Jim Niedermeyer), it sounds like I might be invited to talk with them about the Anatomy Riot of 1824(considering whence Bathsheba Smith's body was stolen).

The Medical School had an historical exhibition for Yale's Tercentennial celebrations in 2001. Portraits of Dwight, Smith, Stiles, et al., are included.

2004-10-15
Constitution Timeline (LC) with links to digitized broadsides. Here's John Trumbull's depiction of the signing of the Constitution



Here's an article recommended by Patricia Illingworth (12/1/03): Yellow Fever in New Haven, 1794 The Yellow and Scarlet fever epidemics in New Haven were part of what prompted James Hillhouse to propose and develop the Grove Street Cemetery.

Many of the instriptions on pre-1800 GSC monuments are illegible. Fortunately, many of them have been transcribed.

Here is a transcript of the poem Sachem's Wood, written by James Abraham Hillhouse, son of Senator James Hillhouse, in New Haven, 1838.

10/14/04
Tomb With A View's Guide to Gravestone Symbols

Connecticut Museums Open House Day

[2006-06-09]
Haruka mentioned that June 10th, 2006 is Connecticut Open House Day for museums, parks, etc. New Haven Museum and Historical Society, for example, has free admission through 5pm, Fair Haven Furniture has "complimentary refreshments".

Steven Colbert at White House Correspondents Dinner

Thanks to crooksandliars.com, here's Colbert at the White House Correspondents Dinner. And here's the transcript from editor&publisher.com (thanks, Ellen!)