Thoughts on an LIS Ph.D and bit of history
Added March 11, 2026: I was thinking about want I wanted to do again in 2009. As I posted in the update there, I ended up where I wanted to be, teaching at SIS as a Clinical Assistant Professor.…
Sometimes a blog with thoughts and opinions by Dan Greene
Added March 11, 2026: I was thinking about want I wanted to do again in 2009. As I posted in the update there, I ended up where I wanted to be, teaching at SIS as a Clinical Assistant Professor.…
Mizzou’s ribbon didn’t go away easily. Tuesday she went back to the the vet because she was still having stomach issues. Turns out the antibiotics she was on where a major part of the problem. After a lot of tests Mizzou is back home now and I don’t think she’ll ever want to go to a vet again.…
Mizzou is weird, and not just because she lives in the Greene household. Yesterday she ate a ribbon. Which had to be removed by a vet. …
Toyota has been racing in the Craftsman Truck Series since 2004. Now they will be racing in the Nextel Cup Series, starting in 2007. There hasn’t been a foreign nameplate in NASCAR since Jaguar in the 1950s.
Not there are any “American” or “foreign” cars anymore.…
…does it take to cook bacon? I’m not talking about temperature, I mean college degrees. In my case, the answer is two/working on three. :-) I cooked bacon a few months ago with just a plate and lots of paper towels.…
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.…
Added March 12, 2026: 20 years later and I still have a site at https://librarymonk.wordpress.com. I still use it as one example/option of how to get a free WordPress site.
It’s 2006 and I have started a new blog.…
Well, I upgraded to WordPress 2.0. Other than some admin bells and whistles (the new visual rich editor can be helpful and annoying at the same time, thankfully you can turn it off) there is no major reason to upgrade.…
Well, earlier this month I reported that my iMac was dead. Well it’s alive again. Turns out that it wasn’t dead after all. Joe at MMCS had it for a week and it ran rock solid. He defragged the drive and fixed a few disk permissions but he didn’t find anything would cause a kernel panic.…