Sometimes a blog with thoughts and opinions by Dan Greene
I recently decided I’d had enough spam when the spam outnumbered the real email by 10 to 1. I guess that proves that I’ve had my email addresses too long and they’ve ended up on everybody’s lists. Even with it’s flaws I still use Outlook Express.…
I am once again in the land of high speed Internet access! My DSL line from Sprint is finally active and working so getting online is no longer an ordeal. But I’m still one finger typing. Can’t have it all I guess.…
On October 26, 2003 I was in a serious car wreck. I suffered a broken neck which has left me partially paralyzed. I am currently only typing with one finger, which makes blogging a challenge, but I am back.
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I initially thought that Amazon’s “Search Inside the Book” was going to be full-text searchable. Well, not exactly. You can search for words but the results are displayed as images of the page the text is on. This is mainly for copyright reasons and I guess it makes sense.…
UCLA has a Cuneiform Digital Library online. I’ve only seen a few cuneiform tablets, safely behind glass of course. Digital libraries like this are great because it allows access to things people probably wouldn’t be able to see otherwise. But the tablets will definitely last longer than this incarnation of the digital library will.…
The UT Vols beat the Florida Gators 24 – 10 in Gainesville. Go Big Orange! And they have moved to No. 8 in the AP and ESPN rankings. This Saturday the Vols play South Carolina in Knoxville and I shall be in attendance.…
Added March 11, 2026: The USA PATRIOT Act of 2001 began the the modern surveillance state. It only got weirder from here. Maybe we should try Rolling Back the Post-9/11 Surveillance State?
From the Associated Press, John Ashcroft is quoted as saying people are being wrongly led to believe that libraries have been “surrounded by the FBI,” with agents “dressed in raincoats, dark suits and sunglasses.…
After some tweaking of the the design, Library Monk is relaunched. I got all the previous posts typed in but I left off the comments. (what few there were) Let me know what you think.…
I got a style from Blogstyles just to jumpstart the new design. I don’t like it that much but at least it gives me something other than the default MT styles. I just don’t have a lot of time to design right now.…
Well I got set up with Blake at LISHost.com. I’m not moving the blog immediately as I want to spend I little time learning Blake’s setup and moving the blog over to Movable Type. PMachine is nice but it’s definitely very Mac oriented and isn’t nearly as widely adopted and not quite as feature rich as MT.…