I got a number of enthusiastic and helpful suggestions on the Drupal4Lib list as to when and where we could hold our Drupal4Lib BoF.
It's increasingly looking like it'll be Sunday after the LITA Top Technology Trends in the LITA Bloggers' Room.
I'll be doing a follow-up to my talk on Drupal at UIC on Friday, 5/23 5/30 (1:30p-3pm) in Burnham Hall 308. The title of the Talk is: "The Wonderful World of Drupal Modules". Basically I'll go into some of the more important modules: CCK, Views, ImageCache, Panels, etc.
More info here: http://tinyurl.com/6exfs9
UPDATE: I had to postpone the talk by one week -- to 5/30.
Mayor Daley speaking at UIC's Daley Urban Forum named after his father Richard J.
The Forum featured a number of Mayors from Arab countries. Many of them have troubles that are common to countries in the 3rd World (lack of funding, infrastructure, etc.)
Particularly moving however was the account by the Mayor of Mosul, Iraq.
He talked about the challenges the Municipal government faces there. These include setting up a "prostheses factory" to deal with all the people, including children, who've had limbs blown off due to bombs. The Mayor reported with pride that a number of Healthcare Centers had been set up despite the fact that many of Iraq's original medical workers had fled the country.
Even here, success was not complete however, since one or two of these Centers had subsequently been bombed.
Despite this hell, the Mayor was optimistic. He would have shown us pictures only they stopped him from bringing them at Baghdad Airport.
Well, the bed started to wobble and I thought either I should've gotten a better bed or maybe the floor in my new place wasn't as intact as I had assumed.
And no, I did not run down to the street screaming.
Someone on the Drupal4Lib list asked what Drupal Modules were "most useful" for creating a library website.
Here are some of the ones I couldn't live without:
Yes, it's that time again: I'm moving to a new apartment. Here I'm doing some prep work.
I really think the US Mint (coins) and the Bureau of Engraving and Printing (dollar bills) have lost the art of designing money. The fine detail and overall sense of composition that used to distinguish our currency is now no more.
Case in point is the new $5 dollar bill with that big ugly purple '5'. It looks like they just got out a huge rubber stamp and banged away.
The Bureau of Engraving and Printing praises this as "Safer, Smarter, More Secure". Apparently 'visually impressive' so it conveys -- who knows? -- the idea of actually being worth something is no longer a requirement.
Meanwhile someone has created a website called "Get Helvetica Off Our Money."
I mean, they're not even trying:
http://tigger.uic.edu/announce/
Current Cites for March 2008 is out! I posted on an article in this month's Online called "The New Rules of Web Design". You can find the issue here...
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