never go home » Work http://www.nevergohome.com always moving Tue, 19 Jan 2010 02:45:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 My office http://www.nevergohome.com/2010/01/05/my-office-2/ http://www.nevergohome.com/2010/01/05/my-office-2/#comments Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:24:37 +0000 dnw http://www.nevergohome.com/?p=762

One of my desks sits in a very dark spot in our IT department.  I’ve tried to decorate a little but I just realized that I don’t even have a photo of my child in my cube (although I do have multiple photos of my dog and his best friend).  My everyday machine is a MacBook Pro (with additional monitor on the left) but I just got a new (to me) computer to try out Windows 7 and programs like Pivot along with some other non-mac friendly tools to work with for mobile devices.
I’ve also been pondering how to improve the e-board content for the big screens set up around the library and I’ve started to demo some tools using the Windows machine. We have some cool tools like computer availability, study room availability, and now a tool called GroupFinder that allows people to leave messages to their group study partners about where they are sitting in the library. I’ve been thinking about how to use other sorts of dynamic content that uses webcams or Twitter feeds to create engaging boards. Of course, if it were up to me, I would have random Jenny Holzer phrases pop up on random TVs around the library. I fear that students are starting to tune these out and we really need to grab their attention. What content would make you look twice at a TV monitor?

]]> http://www.nevergohome.com/2010/01/05/my-office-2/feed/ 1 It isn’t a Jayhawk but… http://www.nevergohome.com/2007/06/12/it-isnt-a-jayhawk-but/ http://www.nevergohome.com/2007/06/12/it-isnt-a-jayhawk-but/#comments Tue, 12 Jun 2007 19:26:46 +0000 dnw http://www.nevergohome.com/wordpress/?p=489 tarheels.gifI guess I am going to have to get used to Carolina blue and angry looking rams since I will be starting as a full time graduate student at the School of Information and Library Science at UNC in August! Today I let my very nice manager at my very nice paying job know about my plans and I really have mixed feelings leaving a very good situation for an uncertain, unknown future. However, I am excited about spending my time and energy actually learning and growing rather than selling and traveling. Before school starts, I will be on tour in a city near you! I am scheduled to be in: Washington (state and DC), Idaho, Montana, Maryland, New Jersey, Missouri, and Kansas. More thoughts on school and photos from the above mentioned places to come!

]]> http://www.nevergohome.com/2007/06/12/it-isnt-a-jayhawk-but/feed/ 1 Snow in Jersey http://www.nevergohome.com/2007/03/07/03-07-07_0920jpg/ http://www.nevergohome.com/2007/03/07/03-07-07_0920jpg/#comments Wed, 07 Mar 2007 14:22:05 +0000 dnw http://www.nevergohome.com/wordpress/?p=461 I’ve gone from snow in New Jersey to sunny days in Charlotte. In 6 hours or so I should home for the weekend.




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]]> http://www.nevergohome.com/2007/03/07/03-07-07_0920jpg/feed/ 3 The lonely road http://www.nevergohome.com/2007/02/26/02-26-07_1010jpg/ http://www.nevergohome.com/2007/02/26/02-26-07_1010jpg/#comments Mon, 26 Feb 2007 15:10:25 +0000 dnw http://www.nevergohome.com/wordpress/?p=456 I’ve been traveling for work a bunch. I’ve been out on the road working pretty much alone all this week and I am pretty much sick of it (for this week). This is what a majority of my trip looks like:

My trip this week looked like this:

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Next week will be Philadelphia, Princeton, Red Bank, and then Charlotte for two days. My life is living up to my web site name.

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I think I had a nicer view in Orlando.

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Originally uploaded by d&e.

Yes, that is beautiful Orlando where I am for 36 hours for a meeting. Right this minute, I am off to get my hair cut since I couldn’t manage to do that back home at Syd’s. I will see what the Cut & Color Room is like. Interesting fact: the mayor of Orlando is named Buddy. Also, security at the airport AND at this hotel use Segway Human Transporters(r)(tm). The hotel (largest Marriott in the world) is filled with 1,500 Ernst & Young employees…

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