There was a power outage (I was gone) and my computers did not get assigned IP numbers in the correct order. As a result Library Monk was down for a while. But now all is well
Now where did we put that Holy Grail again?
The Vatican Museum is now online. It joins the Vatican Library and Secret Archives which were already online. Maybe one day I’ll make it to Rome but for now this will have to do.
Monks
Just thought that since this site is called Library Monk, I’d post a few monkish links. Perhaps Jesuits? Or Trappists? Or Benedictines?
NASCAR goes high tech
Proving that information technology is everywhere, it was announced today that the NASCAR Winston Cup Series will be called the Nextel Cup Series. That’s quite a big jump to go from a tobacco company to a wireless company. Maybe it will mean free wireless networking and/or cell phones at the tracks.
iTunes or “The Musical Apple”
Just ran across this video about the iTunes Music store. Describes iTunes well and has Bono in it which is very cool. I’ve bought quite a bit of stuff from the store including Elvis, U2 and the Clash. I have to say I like purchasing the music better than using P2P software, because you know what you are getting and you support the artist. Although what the artist gets is largely dependent on their label and I think recording companies are mostly evil, but that’s another story.
Web Browsers on the Mac
While Internet Explorer on the Mac appears to be dead, the browser situation on the Mac is alive and standards compliant. Mozilla and its Gecko incarnations and Safari are at the forefront. And now the formerly dismal Omniweb is using Apple’s WebCore and JavaScriptCore in Omniweb 4.5 beta, which means it renders code just as well as Safari.
The blog lives!
After some prodding from an individual who shall go nameless I finally got around to working on the blog a bit. The picture I put up for a logo of is a woodcut of St. Jerome by Albrecht Dürer (1471 – 1533). I picked this one because it had St. Jerome’s lions. Hopefully I’ll get time to work on more than the front page later.