Amazon vs iTunes
Added March 4, 2026: I lost my CDs at some point in the last (almost) two decades. iTunes is now called Apple Music. Amazingly that link to Amazon Music still works. Added for good measure, a link to Spaced Out on Spotify.…
Information Technology
Library Podcast… file extension issues
Added March 11, 2026: A reminder of the early days of podcasting.
I’ve been working on putting a podcast up for The Commons at work. Which is a little harder than it sounds. First I had to figure out podcast RSS feeds.…
Social Libraries: The Books
Added March 6, 2026: By June 2008, I had purchased these books. It took longer than I thought for my investment to pay off, but still money well spent.
Two of these aren’t published yet and at the moment my book budget is zero so I can only dream.…
Templates, web design, and work
Added March 10, 2026: I added links to older versions of the sites I was talking about here using Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. Otherwise this post was all dead links and no context.
When I started my job at Hodges, I knew 95% of the designs I came up would have to fit in the UT template which is heavy on text, brown/beige, and table based, with minimal CSS.(…
Dreamweaver vs GoLive
Added March 11, 2026: I kept this post just for historical interest and nostalgia.
The battle is here. With Dreamweaver and GoLive now both owned by Adobe, what will get included in Creative Suite? The answer is… both.
CS Premium will include both GoLive and Dreamweaver.…
Knoxville gets an Apple Store
Where do you think an Apple Store would you in Knoxville, Tennessee? Probably somewhere at in Farragut right? Maybe Turkey Creek, there’s lots of high end stores out there. Nope, Knoxville’s Apple store is in West Town Mall.
Cheers to Knoxville for getting an Apple Store.…
New MacBooks are here
Added March 11, 2026: I kept this post as a reminder that computer pricing follows a familiar rhythm. Using an inflation calculator from the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis tells me that $1,999 in 2006 is worth approximately $3,199 now. I paid $2,765.09 in November 2023 for the MacBook Pro I’m using now that’s a bit above the base model.…
Apple sends Windows to Boot Camp
Apple released a beta of Boot Camp today, an “official” Windows/Mac dual boot solution. It will be built in to OS X 10.5 “Leopard”. The ability to easily dual boot means that my next computer will be a Mac.
Of course I recently bought a G4 mini, and my Dell is not even a year old, so my next computer is a few years down the road.…
The iMac is dead, long live the mini
The hard drive on my iMac died, it would have cost $300 to fix. So instead I went on eBay and got a G4 Mac mini for $500 including shipping. I could have gotten a new Intel Mac mini for a little more money, about $100 more.…
On old browsers and operating systems
Added March 12, 2026: Twenty years later, I hope I’m still keeping up with current technology and nobody thinks I’m the one who’s stuck in the past.
I know someone who insists on using Netscape 4.7 on Mac OS 9.2. Not only that, they insist on telling other people how good Netscape 4.7 is and telling people they should design their sites for Netscape 4.7.…