June 2003 – Library Monk

Power Outage

June 29, 2003 by Dan

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?

May 23, 2025June 24, 2003 by Dan

The Vatican Museum is now online. It joins the Vatican Library and Archives which were already online. Maybe one day I’ll make it to Rome but for now this will have to do.…

Monks

March 2, 2026June 22, 2003 by Dan

Just thought that since this site is called Library Monk, I’d post a few monkish links. Perhaps Jesuits? Or Trappists? Or Benedictines?

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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”

May 23, 2025June 16, 2003 by Dan

I’ve bought quite a bit of stuff from the Apple/iTunes 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.…

Web Browsers on the Mac

March 12, 2026June 15, 2003 by Dan

Added March 12, 2026: Now Google Chrome and Chromium based browsers are king of the hill, at least by market share.

While Internet Explorer on the Mac is dead, there are plenty of other options. Firefox, Gecko based browsers and Safari can pick up the web browsing torch.…

The blog lives!

March 2, 2026June 15, 2003 by Dan

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).…