Web Programming, Digital Photography, and The Old Leather Man
Interesting set of subjects over the past couple of weeks. The Adobe Flex For Dummies indexing project turned out to be a competitor to JavaScript for creating interactivity, etc., in websites with programming code. Flex has some interesting features and works like most object-oriented programming languages. It integrates well with the animation capabilities of Adobe Flash Player, but folks could still use JavaScript as well. Lots of class, object, and method names in the index.
Digital Photography is part of a modular lesson series from Labyrinth Publishing. They do great stuff to help novices in particular learn how to use the computer and different kinds of software. This book/lesson series is designed for folks new to working with electronic versions of photos. It goes over the basics of how the different types of cameras work and how to download photos and organize them on the computer. Easy and fast to index, and very useful stuff.
Ah, and for a complete contrast, The Old Leather Man. Wish I could have read this one myself, but my working partner, Sue Gaines got to index this fascinating nineteenth-century story. This old French guy just turned up in the mid-1880s in western Massachusetts and Connecticut and parts of New York as a wandering "homeless" person. He had an extremely regular route and the book is made up of all the journalistic references to him in the local papers of the day. He even got a profile in the New York Times at one point! He wore all leather patched clothing, knew how to read and write, spoke some English and lots of French, but mostly said not a word to anyone. He wasn't a beggar, actually, but seemed to have some money and did odd jobs, they think. Legends grew up about how he'd lost the love of his life and took to wandering in his grief. He lived mostly in rock shelters and caves along his walking route. Many of these shelters are still in existence, I guess. Really interesting little story being published by the University Press of New England.
This week, I'm trying to finish up a book index on global bioethics and a small project comparing Microsoft Office 2003 and 2007.
Joanne
Digital Photography is part of a modular lesson series from Labyrinth Publishing. They do great stuff to help novices in particular learn how to use the computer and different kinds of software. This book/lesson series is designed for folks new to working with electronic versions of photos. It goes over the basics of how the different types of cameras work and how to download photos and organize them on the computer. Easy and fast to index, and very useful stuff.
Ah, and for a complete contrast, The Old Leather Man. Wish I could have read this one myself, but my working partner, Sue Gaines got to index this fascinating nineteenth-century story. This old French guy just turned up in the mid-1880s in western Massachusetts and Connecticut and parts of New York as a wandering "homeless" person. He had an extremely regular route and the book is made up of all the journalistic references to him in the local papers of the day. He even got a profile in the New York Times at one point! He wore all leather patched clothing, knew how to read and write, spoke some English and lots of French, but mostly said not a word to anyone. He wasn't a beggar, actually, but seemed to have some money and did odd jobs, they think. Legends grew up about how he'd lost the love of his life and took to wandering in his grief. He lived mostly in rock shelters and caves along his walking route. Many of these shelters are still in existence, I guess. Really interesting little story being published by the University Press of New England.
This week, I'm trying to finish up a book index on global bioethics and a small project comparing Microsoft Office 2003 and 2007.
Joanne
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