Amphigouri: varnished nonsense

Ok, perhaps that’s being a wee bit unfair, as I’m still what I’d consider both an AJAX n00b and ColdFusion beginner. I’m currently frobbing with the CFAjax implementation which, I will admit, beats the pants off having to write the whole bloody mess myself. However, I’m simply not adept at getting the various parts to spit out proper debugging messages. After finally getting the pieces to at least play nicely together, I’m seeing an error our group has seen before in various CF database (Informix) calls:

found a quote for which there is no matching quote

This is followed by the regurgitation of the SQL my code was trying to execute, which was suspiciously lacking in extra quotes of either the single or double variety. Sigh. For a straightforward-sounding error message, this one is sometimes just NOT. For grins, I Googled the phrase

“found a quote for which there is no matching quote” coldfusion

The humor is not lost on me that for this particular search phrase/quote, Google returns 0 results (at least at the time of query; rerunning the string a week or three later does yield a result. And yes, I know that removing the coldfusion keyword makes a difference, but that’s not nearly so amusing to my admittedly warped sense of humor) .

Managed to capture two of the cats up to their usual recently. Click thru to see the larger pictures on Flickr - particularly on the 4th one to see Took sticking out his tongue in Twist’s general direction. Those crazy critters.

From the EDUCAUSE “7 things you should know” series, which “provides concise information on emerging learning technologies and related practices.”

This brief(pdf) covers:

• What is it?
• Who’s doing it?
• How does it work?
• Why is it significant?
• What are the downsides?
• Where is it going?
• What are the implications for teaching and learning?

(via The Kept-up Academic Librarian] )

Today & tomorrow are designated by the ALA as National Library Legislative Day(s?) 2007:

On May 1 & 2, 2007, librarians of all kinds are invited to Washington, DC, for an event like no other: National Library Legislative Day (NLLD).

NLLD is a two-day event in which people who care about libraries participate in advocacy and issue training sessions, interact with Capitol Hill insiders, and visit congressional member offices to ask Congress to pass legislation that supports libraries.

For more information about library legislative day and to register or make a contribution please click on the links below.

National Library Legislative Day is sponsored by the American Library Association, Chief Officers of State Library Agencies, District of Columbia Library Association, and Special Libraries Association.

Have a look at some of the Issue Briefs to see the topics about which library advocates are talking to members of Congress, such as Privacy and Surveillance (pdf), Copyright Issues (pdf), and No Child Left Behind (pdf).