I voted in the 2012 presidential election

Early, but not often

US Airways 2047: BOS to DCA

Gate B18

It was twenty years ago today that the Smithsonian joined the Internet!

From the NMNH IT Times

The Smithsonian Institution was connected to the Internet twenty years ago this past July, when former-NMNH employee George Van Dyke and Julie Cochran made the final connection of the Smithsonian network to the rapidly growing Internet network and traffic began flowing! This was the culmination of a series of Smithsonian meetings held in 1990 and 1991 and the hard work of two Internet implementation teams: Technical and Policy.

The Technical Team was composed of David Bridge, of the Museum Support Center, and John Moreci, George Van Dyke, Bill Price and Julie Cochran, of the Office of Information Resource Management, or OIRM, as OCIO was known at the time. Barbara Smith, Director of Libraries, lead the Policy Team. Julie and George made the final connection on July 2, 1992, and the Smithsonian was on the Internet! The Internet connection was operated in test mode for a few months, before Moreci issued the official announcement on Sept. 28, 1992, a copy of which is available from SI Archives. Initial Internet services available on the Smithsonian’s network (SINet) included: FTP, TELNET and SMTP (email). The Smithsonian's first website was released May 8, 1995.

First home page (from SI Archive) and the email announcement

Some early items from my Smithsonian Internet career:

#BHLib group photo time

@WUlate kicking off BHL tech portion of the meeting #bhlib

Taking over a hallway at Harvard Law

This way to BHL staff and tech meeting ...

Hope those law students keep the noise down

QotD: The way I see it, Barry, this should be a very dynamite show

The way I see it, Barry, this should be a very dynamite show
- Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, Lumpy Gravy (1967)

So, we're kicking off the latest and, I'm pretty sure, the greatest of the BHL combined staff and technical meeting in Cambridge, Mass., hosted by the staff at the Museum of Comparative Zoology.

Wolbach Library, Harvard

FAA regulation 12.310 (f) , seat bottoms!

US Airways 2022: DCA to BOS

Gate 45, off to BHL Land

Nationals vs Brewers

Middle of the 3rd

Lisa Scottoline & Francesca Serritella @ @SILibraries event

And the autumnal equinox begins right ... and right ... NOW!

At least for those of you on the East Coast of the U.S.!

06:49 Eastern, sun passing over the equator, look up.

Here's to Fall!

Counting down to the National Book Festival, tents all up

9/11 11 years later in 2012

The eleventh year is more low key than the tenth ... for some thoughts of the tenth anniversary, see these posts.

For the 10th year, Arlington, in the Rosslyn/Courthouse area, has draped the high-rise buildings in flags.

Jefferson Falls Minigolf, 43 with 2 aces

 More info on the course here.

King and I at Wolf Trap

1917 roller coaster from Boston, now Six Flags

First and probably last coaster ride!