Sometimes a blog with thoughts and opinions by Dan Greene
April was a busy and not busy month. Nothing much happened in the second half of the month, that was interesting enough, I thought, to post here. I did buy a new car April 21, a 2004 VW Jetta. Dark blue, VW calls it Galactic Blue, exterior, gray leather interior.…
Well, the long wait for Movable Type 3.0 appears to be nearing an end, or at least light can be seen at the end of the tunnel. Six Apart announced today that beta testing will begin next next week. I filled out the beta testing form maybe I’ll get in at some point.…
I like libraries. I also like cats. So how is it that I had no idea that library cats existed? I wonder how many reference questions they answer?…
As I noted back in January, my greeneweb.com email address receives a lot of spam and I was using a spam filtering add-on for Outlook Express to combat it. But this seemed to me like mopping up the water but never fixing the problem.…
Well I played a video game for the first time in months today. Nascar Thunder 2003 on the Xbox to be exact. I did better than I thought I would. My left hand is fine, but after a few minutes my right hand really hurt.…
I just installed Dragon NaturallySpeaking today. While my typing speed was pretty good, considering that I was typing with three fingers, I decided to try Dragon to see if things could go any faster. So far, I’m not impressed. While it seems to be doing a pretty good job, it makes errors often enough make things frustrating.…
I came across a nice article at Digital Web Magazine that introduces PHP and tells you how to do simple, useful things. You won’t be able to write a complex script with this info, but it’s good for adding things like menus or copyright statements to every page of your site.…
While looking for this quote from the Rachel Weisz character in The Mummy (1999):
“I may not be an explorer, or an adventurer, or a treasure-seeker, or a gunfighter, Mr. O’Connell, but I am proud of what I am…I, am a librarian!”…
Movable Type has always had a problem, at least when using Internet Explorer 6 as your web browser, which most people are. Comments have this habit of being invisible when you first view them, only to reappear when highlighted with the mouse or the page is reloaded.…
The Metro Pulse, Knoxville’s alternative newspaper, has a nice article / editorial on Knoxville’s proposed new library. The library appears to have widespread public support and numerous building sites to choose from. Added to this is the desire to have a library on par will the Nashville Public Library, a lofty goal indeed.…