Comments and Updates

Updated the blog to pMachine Pro. Not a lot of readily obvious new features, just a lot of stuff I haven’t figured out how to use yet. I did change the comment system so that anybody can post comments, no registration required, never liked that anyway. In other news my main clown infozo has moved … Read more

Wild animals as librarians

“You see, I don’t believe that libraries should be drab places where people sit in silence, and that’s been the main reason for our policy of employing wild animals as librarians.” -Monty Phython I read in the Johnson City (TN) Press that a bear got into the old library at ETSU. I wonder if the … Read more

I’m not dead yet!

Marc Andreessen was quoted Tuesday as saying “There hasn’t been any innovation on the browser in the last five years. And five years from now there won’t be any changes.” I think that estimate is a bit early but there is little doubt that web browsers are stagnant. However I do agree with Web Standards … Read more

Power Outage

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

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”

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. Although what the artist gets is largely dependent on their label and I … Read more

Web Browsers on the Mac

While Internet Explorer on the Mac is dead, the browser situation on the Mac is alive and well. 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 … Read more