Sometimes a blog with thoughts and opinions by Dan Greene
Firefox 0.9 has been released. I liked the theme for 0.8 much better, but Firefox is my favorite brower, especially since Internet Explorer 6 is probably the last new version of IE for a while, and IE 6 has been around since October 2001.…
Well, I stopped running SETI@home on the PC and switched the iMac from the graphical version to the command line version. I really don’t care about watching the fancy graphics or crunching lots of numbers. Running SETI@home is just something for the iMac to do when I’m not using iTunes to listen to my music collection.…
I updated the site design, I had had enough of the bland MT 3 defaults. This design is again based off one of Neil Turner’s designs, this time Bluefade II. Still tweaking a bit, but it’s mostly there.…
For a while now there has been a bit of a feud going between Rory Litwin of Library Juice and Blake Carver and the community at LISNews. It began with Blake’s article at LISNews wanting some right wing counter-balance to the left wing tilt of the LISNews community.…
As part of upgrading to MT 3.0 D, I took all the templates back to the default. The result is a pretty bland looking site. All I did to the default templates was modify the stylesheet a bit. Not sure sure how long I’ll keep the site like this… maybe until MT 3.0 final is out.…
The BBC is reporting that the Library of Alexandria has been found. Thirteen huge lecture halls have been uncovered that could have housed a total of 5,000 people.…
Astrobiology Magazine has an interview up with a Vatican astronomer, Guy Consolmagno, who also curates the Vatican’s meteorite collections. Interesting stuff about astronomy and religion.
The best quote is on what happens if we find ET life. Of several options, this could happen,” We find a dozen civilizations out there, and a bunch of Jehovah’s witnesses go up and convert them all.”…
Library Monk has been upgraded to Moveable Type 3.0. The upgrade went smoothly, although I didn’t upgrade the templates. So I’m not taking advantage of any new features, visible to the public, but the new management interface is amazing.…