mamamusingselizabeth lane lawley's thoughts on technology, academia, family, and tangential topicsmy excellent air force adventure- June 26, 2008 Way way back in 1995, I gave a talk at the national Computer Training & Support Conference on the topic of &8220;Training the Internet Trainer.&8221; This was back when the Internet was still pretty new, and Internet trainers were very hard to come by. One of the people in the audience was a military employee from Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio, and he rushed back to tell his colleague Sheila Brennan that she absolutely had to hire me to do some Internet training at the base. And thus began a.http://mamamusings.net/archives/2008/06/26/my_excellent_air_force_adventure.php best n95 software EVER- June 26, 2008 I&8217;ve had a Nokia n95 phone for nearly a year now, and for the most part I&8217;ve been indifferent about it. I like that it has a high quality camera, and I&8217;ve used the GPS functionality for walking directions in unfamiliar cities. The RoadSync software I bought gives me full Exchange sync capability, which is always important. And the voice dialing is really nice (no need to record names for people; say the name and the voice recognition software matches it in your contact list)....http://mamamusings.net/archives/2008/06/26/best_n95_software_ever.php how (not) to get paid by the government- June 25, 2008 My trip to Boston is to do some training on social media at Hanscom AFB. It&8217;s been ten years since I last did any training for a base, and boy have things changed. Back then, when I completed a training job I&8217;d mail them an invoice, and then I&8217;d wait&8212;often for a verrrry long time&8212;for my check. It was frustrating from a length of time standpoint, but at least it wasn&8217;t very labor intensive. Fast forward a decade, to the wonderful world of web-enabled databases. That.http://mamamusings.net/archives/2008/06/24/how_not_to_get_paid_by_the_government.php travel woes- June 25, 2008 travel fatigue I arrived back home yesterday at 5pm eastern time, which required me to get out of bed at 3am pacific time. My travel home was remarkably snag-free, which I should have known would be short-lived. Tonight my flight to Boston was delayed by over an hour. When I got to the Rochester airport, I realized I&8217;d forgotten to make a car reservation. No problem, I thought, I&8217;ll hop online and do it over the airport&8217;s free wifi. Except I couldn&8217;t get a valid IP address...http://mamamusings.net/archives/2008/06/24/travel_woes.php selective sharing and access- June 12, 2008 I&8217;m narrowing in on my MSR research topic for this summer. It looks as though I&8217;m going to focus on assessing issues of selective sharing and access in social software systems. This would focus on boundary issues in many ways&8230;who has access to what, and when From LiveJournal friend groups used to limit access to specific blog posts to the way that changing relationships (from leaving a job to graduating from a college to breaking up in a relationship). If you know of any...http://mamamusings.net/archives/2008/06/12/selective_sharing_and_access.php summertime, worktime- June 10, 2008 What started out as a wide-open, unplanned summer is filling up quite quickly. Turns out I will be working for MSR again this summer, but as a contractor rather than a visiting researcher&8212;which means for the first time in three years I get to spend summer in my own house! I will, however, be taking two trips out to Seattle. The first will be next week, from 616-23. While I&8217;m there, I&8217;ll also be giving two talks at the annual Special Libraries Association conference&8212;one on...http://mamamusings.net/archives/2008/06/10/summertime_worktime.php |