Library Monk

February 6, 2006

Thoughts on an LIS Ph.D and bit of history

This posting about Ph.Ds for academic librarians at ACRLog made me think about my long, strange road to the Ph.D program here and where I’m going afterwards. I’ll talk about that, at length, in a bit. Basically I’m getting a Ph.D not so much to be be better qualified for a management job now, but to be ready for one when the opportunity arises. My thinking about a Ph.D was that if I kept going immediately after my Masters I would still be in grad student mode and things would be easier. I also got assistantships for both my first attempt at a Ph.D at UT and again here at Missouri. So I’m not investing a lot of money, just time.

This post is long, and is pretty much a personal narrative beyond this point. … Continue reading “Thoughts on an LIS Ph.D and bit of history”

February 3, 2006

Kicking aliens

Felt Lisa kick last night finally. The first time I wasn’t to sure but the second time my hand moved, so no doubting that one. Stephanie has more on Lisa, the kicking alien.

February 3, 2006

Defending England… with iPods

For 605 million pounds, what would you expect a modern Royal Navy warship to have? Modern weapons systems, and all the latest technology certainly. The HMS Daring has the best crew quarters ever on a British warship. The individual cabins have CD player, internet access, five channel audio and yes iPod charging stations. The new ship with enter service in 2009. Hopefully the iPod connectors will still be the same in three years….

February 2, 2006

Cats eat weird things II

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. 🙂 Stephanie has more info.

February 2, 2006

Survivor begins tonight

Well, Survivor starts tonight. The Johnson City Press has another article on Melinda Hyder from Elizabethton. From the commercials, this game seems substantially different from earlier editions. Should be interesting to watch.

February 1, 2006

Internet Explorer 7

I just installed IE 7 Beta 2. Very minimalist approach, almost too minimal. You can add toolbars to the interface, but adding things in destroys the look Microsoft is going for. IE 7 also appears to introduce more CSS bugs instead of fixing them. Or maybe I have a hack in my left side navigation that IE 7 doesn’t like.

February 1, 2006

The State of the Union

I didn’t watch the State of the Union, expect for a minute or two on Telemundo as I was flipping channels. Hearing the speech in Spanish was pretty entertaining. Even more entertaining is this version of the State of the Union from eBaum’s World.

January 30, 2006

Akismet and Spam Karma 2

I’ve been using Akismet to stop comment spam for a while now. It worked fine, but I was never quite sure what it was doing. I went back to using Spam Karma 2 today, since the plugin that lets SK2 and Akismet work together is out of beta. So now I can have the added benefits of Akismet and actually know what my spam filter is doing.

January 27, 2006

Cats eat weird things

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. Stephanie has more info and a picture of Mizzou post ribbon eating.

January 27, 2006

More on Firefly

The Sci-Fi channel has picked up on the Firefly Season Two story. Like this article says, it’s a complicated story and Firefly Season Two probably won’t happen.