Sometimes a blog with thoughts and opinions by Dan Greene
Added March 6, 2026: In 2026, these instructions aren’t useful unless you have the right combination of 15 year old hardware and software. But I’m keeping this post as a reminder that troubleshooting technology is a puzzle where you have to look for the missing pieces.…
Added March 11, 2026: 17 years later, I’ve worked for UT full time for almost 20 years now.
I’m a non-tenured Clinical Assistant Professor at UT’s School of Information Sciences, where I got my master’s degree. From 2006 to 2024, I was staff at UT in one position on another.…
The paperwork for my job upgrade was been sent to HR, but it will be October before I see any salary increase. But the increase in pay will be retroactive until July 1, so it could be a nice payday. It doesn’t appear as though I’ve made it to the final interview stages of either of the jobs I applied for, although I could still be surprised.…
Well I didn’t get a librarian job. They hired someone for the User Education Technologies job but the Digital Media Technologies job was called a failed search and they’ll re-advertise it in the future. Better luck next time I guess.
On the brighter side my current position here at the library is being reviewed for an upgrade, and I’m in the pools for 2 other jobs elsewhere at UT and I’ve made it into the second round for both I think.…
If you’ve looked at the recent posts here, you’d see that I’ve had issues with Comcast. I’m happy to report all is well. Setting up the Tivo again was a bit complicated, since this is the first time I’ve had a digital cable box.…
Hodges Library no longer has a reference desk. We had a wake for it yesterday afternoon. Day to day reference questions have been moved upstairs to the Commons desk.
In fact Hodges no longer has a reference department. It’s been split into Integrated User Services, Research Services, and Research Collections.…
Well technically my new house does. The floors are done and the electricity is on and working.
The wood floors look nice. I’m really pleased with how the floors turned out.
The library reorg picked up steam yesterday, some new appointments have been made and searches are starting.…
Well it has taken me almost to the end on January to post anything. Been buried at work, been ill a bit and trying to keep up with my whirlwind of an almost 2 year old daughter. Blogging is but a distant memory.…
I’ve changed departments here at Hodges, from Outreach to Library Technology Services, a.k.a Systems. So I have a bigger cube and an office that my cell phone works in, but sadly no pay raise.
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Added March 11, 2026: Thanks to the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine for saving copies of things I worked on years ago.
I’ve been pretty busy spearheading the redesign on the UT Libraries site. (lib.utk.edu as it appeared in September 2007) It officially launched August 13th and it’s a slow process getting a site that big with dozens of people involved updated to a new design.…