Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Biking and no snow...

Yesterday we received about an inch of snow here in Gunnison. This morning is beautiful, the birds were singing and the temperature was just below 40, crisp with no wind. I biked to work this morning. I noticed gas prices here in Gunnison are about $3.85 a gallon, so I bet I'll see over $4.00 a gallon by Memorial Day. Yet, another reason to bike to work. I have decided I'm a fair-weather bike commuter, waking up to snow did not increase my motivation to bike to work.

I am working on a paper to present at an undergraduate computer science conference in October. The paper's first draft is due next week and I am half-way done. The title is "Archiving College Websites using Heritrix and D-Space" and is about my and Chris (the student who has been working with me on this project) experiences with integrating Heritrix (a Java web-crawler) and D-Space (MIT's open-source Java institutional repository). My goal is to finish the first draft by Friday so that I can get some comments and submit the first draft by Monday or Tuesday. Next Friday I'll be in Denver for the CALC Academic Summit where I'll be presenting a digital poster session about the institutional repository. I presented a digital poster session at last year's Academic Summit so I do know what to expect.

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