Changes
Decided to keep the blog on the Mac and keep using PMachine. It works and a barely have time to blog, much less tinker with a server. That being said I’m pondering moving librarymonk.com to LISHost.com In fact I probably will soon.…
Downtime and Changes
The server had a bit of downtime due to an unnoticed router issue that has since been fixed. I guess that proves how busy I’ve been that I hadn’t noticed.
LibraryMonk will be moving soon to a dedicated WinXP machine from the Mac OS X machine it is on now.…
Digital Gutenberg Bible
The University of Texas at Austin now has their Gutenberg Bible online. It’s not the first one to go online, but the more copies that go digital, the less the originals get used. More people can use the digital copies, so the work is more widely distributed and the original is preserved.…
Zone Alarm Pro
Added March 12, 2026: Wow, ZoneAlarm Pro still exists.
I just got ZoneAlarm Pro for my Windows machine, not that I really needed it, I’m already behind basic hardware firewall so not a whole lot gets through anyway, but ZA Pro has some good ad and pop-up blocking features and email protection.…
Bless me father, I ate a lizard
Just thought I would post a few comments on one of my favorite books and the inspiration for the name Library Monk. Canticle tells the story of a post nuclear war United States. People have turned against science and learning and life has reverted to a medieval existence.…
Comments and Updates
Updated the blog to pMachine Pro. Not a lot of readily obvious new features, just a lot of stuff I haven’t figured out how to use yet. I did change the comment system so that anybody can post comments, no registration required, never liked that anyway.…
Wild animals as librarians
“You see, I don’t believe that libraries should be drab places where people sit in silence, and that’s been the main reason for our policy of employing wild animals as librarians.”
-Monty Phython
I read in the Johnson City (TN) Press that a bear got into the old library at ETSU.…
I’m not dead yet!
Marc Andreessen was quoted Tuesday as saying “There hasn’t been any innovation on the browser in the last five years. And five years from now there won’t be any changes.”
I think that estimate is a bit early but there is little doubt that web browsers are stagnant.…
Power Outage
There was a power outage (I was gone) and my computers did not get assigned IP numbers in the correct order. As a result Library Monk was down for a while. But now all is well…
Now where did we put that Holy Grail again?
The Vatican Museum is now online. It joins the Vatican Library and Archives which were already online. Maybe one day I’ll make it to Rome but for now this will have to do.…