sometimes a blog by Dan Greene
The new Dr. Who series (BBC site) has been playing in the UK for a while now. It’s going to be shown in the US on the SCI-FI channel.
I remember watching the original Dr. Who (BBC site) on PBS. It’s the first sci-fi I ever saw on TV, although it’s probably tied with The Incredible Hulk for that honor. I’m looking forward to seeing the new Dr. Who.
The latest edition of Survivor starts February 2. It has yet another person for my original neck of the woods, Melinda. The Johnson City Press has an article abut her.
The CSS is still a bit convoluted, but thanks to some help from Matt I was able to clean things up a bit. I’ve also made the site readable in Netscape 4.x Amazingly I was able to get Netscape Communicator 4.8 to run on my machine.
As I’ve said before Netscape 4.x is a horrible browser, but I wanted to make sure the content was accessible for that 1% of people that are unfortunate enough to use it. The site is also accessible in Lynx. Further testing at Browser Emulator shows that the site will work in several older browsers, Netscape 1.0 for example. 🙂 Speed tests show that the site is at least bearable on a dialup connection. I also checked against WCAG and Section 508 guidelines and didn’t find any problems.
So I’m calling the major design finished. There are little things here and there and at some point I may totally rewrite the CSS. But for now I’m letting the dust settle.
Visually I like the new look, but the CSS behind the site is pretty complex, I’m sure it’s more complex than it needs to be. There are lots of fixes in there for browser bugs/CSS glitches.
http://www.librarymonk.com/wp-content/themes/monastery/style.css
Most of these fixes are for browsers that very few people still use. I’d rather the content be readable across browsers, instead of pixel perfect. CSS this complex has got to be slowing things down, the file is 471 lines long.
So far my attempts to whittle down the CSS has managed to break things. I’d like to have just what I need to preserve the major aspects of look of the site. I don’t really care of the margins differ across browsers etc.
Anybody want to help me out? 🙂
Here is the new 3 column Library Monk design. It’s not done yet, but it’s usable at this point and having it live makes it easier to finish up. So don’t be suprised if some things don’t work. But I should be done soon..
…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. It was very messy and the bacon was hard to cook consistently. Today I used a microwave bacon tray. It was much cleaner than using a normal plate, but the quality was still hit or miss.
My next bacon cooking attempt will probably be using a George Foreman grill. Instructions I’ve found say that you don’t have to separate that bacon into strips, but I probably will anyway.
I found a site that tested various methods of cooking bacon. Baking seems to be a clear winner, with grilling a close second.
The Lady Vols bet UConn 89 to 80 today. I find I’m even more of a UT fan now than when I lived almost within sight of Neyland Stadium and Thompson-Boling Arena. Maybe it’s because if you say UT in Missouri the T has a 50/50 chance of being understood as Tennessee, some people will assume you mean Texas.
I was lucky enough to watch today’s game on CBS, most of the time the teams on TV here aren’t SEC. Sorry if it’s not SEC I’m not interested. The Big 12 conference just isn’t that interesting. Although Missouri did mange to beat Steve Spurrier’s Gamecocks in the Independence Bowl.
Future millionaires Paul and Audrey Yazbeck – CNN.com
I wish I had the income these people do to be able to save like that. I’m just posting this because it gives me hope that I can be a millionaire librarian/and or college professor one day. Don’t laugh too hard, it could happen… 🙂
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.
For those of you doing the math, the Netscape 4.x line started in June 1997. The last of the 4.x versions, 4.8, was release in August 2002. More history is available from the Netscape Browser Archive. Depending on the exact version number Netscape 4.7 was “current” anywhere from September 1999 to November 2001. In early 2003 Apple stopped shipping systems with the option of OS 9.2.
Don’t get me wrong, older technology is great if it’s all you have and it does what you need. I still have Lynx installed on my Windows XP box for testing accessibility. I know the limitations of using a text only browser in 2006. Netscape 4.7 wasn’t even a good browser when it was current.
How do you get someone stuck in the last decade to see the light. There are scores of reasons to move on and sometimes a line must be drawn . So how do you get someone out of an outdated technology rut?
Library 2.0 is a nice buzzword, but what does it mean? Right now “Library 2.0” seems to be as well defined a term as “information society. Current thinking about Library 2.0 seems to center around library information technologies.
But it’s more technology centered than people centered. New technologies are pointless if they’re not used. Michael (and others) get it, Library 2.0 is people! (insert Soylent Green joke here) Library 2.0 is an extension of the “library as place” idea and needs to focus on ” the library in the life of the user”.