sometimes a blog by Dan Greene
July has been a busy month, I’m not sure where the time has gone. Let’s see, what’s new…. Work has been busy. We’re attempting to get a new house built. Stephanie and I have been jumping through a lot of hoops with that.
Also been trying to get the finances in order to be able to afford a much larger mortgage payment. As a result of that we no longer have a landline phone. We never used it anyway.
Anyway just thought I’d make a quick post so people knew I was still alive. 🙂
Maybe partly right, I don’t know. 🙂
So, you want to make the world a better place? Too bad it’s never gonna happen.
Of all the types, you have to be one of the hardest to find fault in. You have a selfless and caring nature. You’re a good listener and someone who wants to avoid conflict. You genuinely desire to do good.
Of course, these all add up to an incredibly overpowered conscience which makes you feel guilty and responsible when anything goes wrong. Of course, it MUST be your fault EVERYTIME.
Though you’re constantly on a mission to find the truth, you have no use for hard facts and logic, which is a source of great confusion for those of us with brains. Despite this, in a losing argument, you’re not above spouting off inaccurate fact after fact in an effort to protect your precious values.
You’re most probably a perfectionist, which in this case, is a bad thing. Any group work is destined to fail because of your incredibly high standards.
Disregard what I said before. You’re just easy to find fault in as everyone else!
Luckily, you’re generally very hard on yourself, meaning I don’t need to waste my precious time insulting you. Instead, just find all your own faults and insult yourself.
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If you want to learn more about your personality type in a slightly less negative way, check out this.
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The other personality types are as follows…
Loner – Introverted Sensing Feeling Perceiving
Pushover – Introverted Sensing Feeling Judging
Criminal – Introverted Sensing Thinking Perceiving
Borefest – Introverted Sensing Thinking Judging
Freak – Introverted iNtuitive Feeling Judging
Loser – Introverted iNtuitive Thinking Perceiving
Crackpot – Introverted iNtuitive Thinking Judging
Clown – Extraverted Sensing Feeling Perceiving
Sap – Extraverted Sensing Feeling Judging
Commander – Extraverted Sensing Thinking Perceiving
Do Gooder – Extraverted Sensing Thinking Judging
Scumbag – Extraverted iNtuitive Feeling Perceiving
Busybody – Extraverted iNtuitive Feeling Judging
Prick – Extraverted iNtuitive Thinking Perceiving
Dictator – Extraverted iNtuitive Thinking Judging
| Link: The Brutally Honest Personality Test written by UltimateMaster on OkCupid, home of the The Dating Persona Test |
as performed by various U.S. Presidents (from JibJab)
Safari 3 beta for Windows. I’ll applaud any alternative to Internet Explorer. But with this and Apple’s website makeover, I feel like I’m in an alternate universe.
Cleaning out some of my bookmarks. Here’s some software I find useful.
Lynx Text Web Browser 2.8.6.1
Are your pages really usable? Try using them in Lynx.
Parallels Desktop
The best of both worlds
Saft
Nice extension for Safari
CSSEdit
The Best CSS editor for the Mac, at least that’s my opinion 🙂
May is almost over and I’m not sure where it went. Work has been going ok, the UT Libraries version of the new UT web templates should be ready in the next couple of weeks. Then the long and probably painful process of converting the libraries over to the new templates can begin.
On a personal note, I spent most of May getting the family finances in order. Cashed in some stock and paid off all our credit card debt, which was a sizable sum. Next on the agenda is looking at buying or building a house. Building on the land we have now is one option, or we may sell our current place and move a bit closer to work.
Anybody want to buy a Mac mini or a couple of Pentium 4 Windows XP machines? The only computer we ever turn on at home anymore is the laptop, so I’m on a mission to get rid of our desktop machines and reclaim some cash.
But for now we’ll be taking a break and headed to Arkansas for Memorial Day. Should be a nice change of pace.
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. The University of Washington has a good site for that.
Then there was an issue with the .m4a file that GarageBand saves podcasts as. .m4a is not an official MIME media type, which means it’s probably not going to be in the Apache mime types. At least it wasn’t for the library web server. And it might not hurt to add .m4v as well.
AddType video/mp4 .m4v
AddType audio/mp4 .m4a
MPEG 4 has various (and mostly interchangeable) file extensions, although .mp4 is the only official extension. But Apple has popularized .m4a and .m4v into what appear to be defacto standards.
Just got back from the TLA Conference in Chattanooga. I had a good time, saw several people that I hadn’t seen in a few years. The presentations were good, Loriene Roy, ALA President-Elect was the keynote speaker. Sadly I didn’t get to hear her speak since the room was standing-room only by the time I got there. I attened sessions on IM reference, wikis, and library website redesign among other things. I also toured UT Chattanooga’s Lupton Library.
