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The Ideas section for this week’s Inbox tied to Resolution on Supporting School and Community Libraries, passed at the Annual Convention in Pittsburgh a couple weeks ago. The collection of lesson plans and articles focuses on Building an Independent Reading Program.

The call with the MarcoPolo folks didn’t really reveal a good solution for the title bars, so we’re just letting the <i> codes show up. On a positive note, however, I finally duplicated the calendar error. He was using straight quotes in his text. When the page posted to the database, the field was truncating at the quotes in his text, and the stuff after the quotation mark in the text just confused everything. I have instructed him to use curly quotes from now on. At least it was a simple solution.


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Suddenly we’re having errors that blank out entire calendar entries when the editor/writer tries to work on them. I’m at a loss for the solution. I can’t even figure out what the problem is. He’s working in the online form, so shouldn’t be bad characters copied over. He’s using IE, which works for me. It’s happened on more than one entry. I can’t duplicate it. Sigh.

I did manage to clean up the broken links from today’s report, and we did some work on an online course that we’re developing.


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I’ve begun the process of baking cookies for Christmas. I created a bunch of red and green pinwheels. More than I could actually finish baking, but I got a start. Can’t really take much credit for these. I bought red and green cookie dough, rolled it out, layered it, rolled it up like a jelly roll. They look pretty. Not your normal sugar cookie.

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Wow. Tonight was the NCTE Holiday Party, an excellent opportunity for people watching. Naturally, I won one of the bottles of wine in the raffle. Why can’t I ever win things that I can actually use? The whole event is a bit awkward, since people brought dates and I don’t really have anyone to take. I hate those moments when everyone else is out dancing and I’m sitting alone and stupid at the table. Oh, and drinking water. Can anyone be more stupid and lame?

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Finished editing and published the January Calendar for ReadWriteThink.

Unfortunately, I found that the javascript for the titles isn’t really working. It’s great on the pages, but not for the spiders. They’re grabbing the javascript code for the title, rather than the resulting text. Changed everything back so that the italics codes show up. At least that’s still readable. Not sure how to get around this problem. I’m going to let it stil till next week, when we have a phone call with the MarcoPolo folks who handle the WebTrends data. Maybe they’ll have an idea.


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Okay, I did turn in a content report today, but that wasn’t the highlight. Today was PANDA DAY! My niece and my two sisters had tickets to see baby butterstick, and there has been much happiness all around.