Thursday, October 27, 2011
Can't remember what I had for breakfast. Finished reading Elements of Content Strategy by Erin Kissane. To be honest, the book was less useful to me the further I read, but that's not to say that others will have the same experience. I found Chapter 1 essential because it can help others better understand the value of content and content strategy. Began reading Jeremy Keith's HTML5 for Web Designers. Rode Muni to work. Today I spent almost the entire day with pdftk, pdftk4all, and GNUWin32 coreutils and sed, writing a script for Sammie and Joel that automates the combining of PDF files in a certain way and giving them an additional option for manual PDF combining since Joel encountered unresolvable problems with Adobe Acrobat Pro 10.0.3 when using the Insert Pages feature. Late lunch from Subway: veggie delite sandwich, bottled water that I brought with me, ate in the sun by the library. Fielded a question from student LT about the limitations of sending large files in email. Redirected a request to take someone's photo from Susie to Susie. Chatted about mice and wrist rests with Lisa. Met briefly with Eric about QBC. We also chatted with Susie briefly about IA concerns. Computer maintenance for some staff. Dinner at home with Patrick: persimmon bisque (from a recipe that he created), bread and butter, corn on the cob, water. To bed early.