John Ashcroft – Master of Tact

Added March 11, 2026: The USA PATRIOT Act of 2001 began the the modern surveillance state. It only got weirder from here. Maybe we should try Rolling Back the Post-9/11 Surveillance State?


From the Associated Press, John Ashcroft is quoted as saying people are being wrongly led to believe that libraries have been “surrounded by the FBI,” with agents “dressed in raincoats, dark suits and sunglasses.…

I’m back!

After some tweaking of the the design, Library Monk is relaunched. I got all the previous posts typed in but I left off the comments. (what few there were) Let me know what you think.…

New Style

I got a style from Blogstyles just to jumpstart the new design. I don’t like it that much but at least it gives me something other than the default MT styles. I just don’t have a lot of time to design right now.…

LISHost.com

Well I got set up with Blake at LISHost.com. I’m not moving the blog immediately as I want to spend I little time learning Blake’s setup and moving the blog over to Movable Type. PMachine is nice but it’s definitely very Mac oriented and isn’t nearly as widely adopted and not quite as feature rich as MT.…

Changes

Decided to keep the blog on the Mac and keep using PMachine. It works and a barely have time to blog, much less tinker with a server. That being said I’m pondering moving librarymonk.com to LISHost.com In fact I probably will soon.…