I walked in the door today not quite sure whether I was gruntled or dis-. Just one of those up-and-down days.
It started off astoundingly poorly, and no, you don’t get details. A jaw-droppingly grunchtastic moment plunged my mood firmly into “seeing red” territory. Honest to goodness, it’s no wonder there are few women in IT. The wonder is that there are any. And that’s all I’m going to say about that.
A fascinating conference is coming to MPOW’s law school shortly, and I emailed the organizers on the off-chance they’d let me archive stuff. I got a favorable response and am following up, which is good.
I did get my chapter done today, hooray! I’m just not sure it’s any good. I tried to add a library voice, because for all their general wonderfulness, many of the loudest voices in the open-access movement don’t really quite understand how libraries can help and why libraries should. I think there’s more to both questions than usually makes it into the discourse, and I tried to express some of it, but I don’t know if I got there.
Eh, I suppose we’ll see. I retain self-archiving rights (why, yes, I do read my contracts), so expect to see a preprint eventually.
And then I messed around with CVS for quite some time, and was very proud of myself for more or less getting it to work—but I may have inadvertently done Trogool some (reparable) software damage in the process. If I’ve really screwed things up, fixing them may involve an OS reinstall. Let’s hope not, because I really want to get hacking on DSpace 1.4.
