http://jeffabe.org/wp Talking about what I cannot not do... Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:43:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well after  whirlwind 3 days SIGUCCS is wrapped up. The conference was a whole lot better for me than I ever imagined an in town conference would be. Tuesday had more presentations, some good some rather lackluster. For me, the hardest part of Tuesday was that I had stayed up Monday ... http://jeffabe.org/wp/?p=59 As you can tell I haven't written much, so perhaps it should be quite newsworthy when I do because it means I have something to write about. This time it's the SIGUCCS conference being held in Saint Louis. It's a conference more like an academic conference than many IT conferences ... http://jeffabe.org/wp/?p=56 Well, I guess its one of those moments you just have to laugh about.... We put our Christmas tree up on Sunday.  As we're putting it up Lisa and I both noticed it was smaller than we remembered it. My answer was to raise it up. We got some milk crates ... http://jeffabe.org/wp/?p=53 Well, as you may know I've started taking the bus more regularly. Hopefully this will give Me time to write in this blog more, and maybe cut down on some stress too. And there has been plenty of that. IT'S wants to tell me it wasn't a demotion, but let's be honest, ... http://jeffabe.org/wp/?p=49 Well this week has been a doozy. Some of the people here that I have most admired, and whom I have shaped my approach to academic IT after have been given layoff notices. The three that I have worked the closest with have a combined 75 years at SLU between ... http://jeffabe.org/wp/?p=40 Well today was the last day that Lisa would be in San Francisco. I have to admit,  its a little sad to see this adventure ending. Sure its work, I'm attending conferences for 7 hours a day, thinking about work, or how to best do the work we do...but its ... http://jeffabe.org/wp/?p=39 This was a big day for the conference. All classes, basically all day. I was excited to see some good sessions, and for the most part it was good. After eating our free breakfast (we got this because of internet problems the first night in the hotel), we headed over to ... http://jeffabe.org/wp/?p=30 Well...today was the big day. The Keynote. The big announcements. The thing everyone knows about when it comes to Macworld. How did I respond...I hit the snooze button. It wasn't because I wasn't excited, just because SLU had bought me an all inclusive ticket, so I could get there a ... http://jeffabe.org/wp/?p=23 Well today was the first day of 'work' here at the Conference. It all started early as we headed over to get our registration and to our conferences. Registration started at 8 so we aimed to get over there by 8:15 to get registered in plenty of time. Well, its ... http://jeffabe.org/wp/?p=11 Well, after our day yesterday seemingly running late everywhere, we decided to get an early start. We had arranged for a rental and we picked it up a few blocks from the hotel, and we got there a little before 8. We drove around Golden Gate Park. For all you ... http://jeffabe.org/wp/?p=10