{"id":1123,"date":"2006-03-27T11:57:06","date_gmt":"2006-03-27T16:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/austin.metblogs.com\/2006\/03\/27\/so-much-for-convenience\/"},"modified":"2006-03-27T11:57:06","modified_gmt":"2006-03-27T16:57:06","slug":"so-much-for-convenience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/so-much-for-convenience\/","title":{"rendered":"So much for convenience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I <a href=\"http:\/\/austin.metblogs.com\/archives\/2006\/01\/library_catalog.phtml\">noted my annoyance<\/a> at the old online catalog for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ci.austin.tx.us\/library\">APL<\/a> earlier this year. The catalog no longer keeps banker&#8217;s hours, which is nice, but the new catalog breaks my <a href=\"http:\/\/weblog.infoworld.com\/udell\/stories\/2002\/12\/11\/librarylookup.html\">LibraryLookup bookmarklet<\/a> and the extensive research (10 minutes) that I spent trying to see if I could get it to work were for naught. Anybody else tried getting Jon Udell&#8217;s glorious hack to work with this particular brand of online catalog? Am I going to have to go back to doing searches by hand? The horror. I wish I&#8217;d realized that this was broken last week as I had a meeting that included the librarian for my local branch of APL. I need to send her an e-mail anyway, now I have two reasons.<\/p>\n<p>P.S. My research led me to the interesting little tidbit that Jon Udell was a <a href=\"http:\/\/2004.sxsw.com\/interactive\/panels\/index.php?action=detail&amp;con=ia&amp;id=73\">panellist at SXSW 2004<\/a> on the merits of his cool little hack. I&#8217;m sorry I missed out on that one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I noted my annoyance at the old online catalog for APL earlier this year. The catalog no longer keeps banker&#8217;s hours, which is nice, but the new catalog breaks my LibraryLookup bookmarklet and the extensive research (10 minutes) that I spent trying to see if I could get it to work were for naught. Anybody <a href='https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/so-much-for-convenience\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fonJ-i7","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}