Enterprise Abstraction

CISTI Tacky Christmas

In a groundswell of tackyness - CISTI staff are participating in a Tacky Christmas Decorating contest amongst the various sections of staff.  Examples from the IT group included below:

I hope nobody needs anything from those particular shelves in the reference section...

QR Codes

I've been interested in playing with QR codes, and how they might be applied to my work at CISTI.  Recently, I found a useful tip from Lifehacker showing how to create a bookmarklet that will make a QR code of the current web page... useful if you want to transfer the current page on your desktop/laptop to your phone for mobile reading.  It's a lot more convenient than emailing yourself the URL.

It's dead simple, making use of Googles chart API's.  Just make a bookmark in your toolbar with the following as the location information:

javascript:void(window.open('http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=qr&chs=150x150&chl='+encodeURIComponent(top.location.href)+'&chld=H|0','qr','width=155,height=155'));