Usually I’m one to complain about the process of going through security at airports, and this morning I was ready to yet again, but…. When I arrived 1:45 early and had an especially quick luggage check, I was amazed to find the line for security was 1/2 mile long (I’m not kidding or exaggerating!). [...]
One Month Into It
Well, it’s been a month now since I set up this site. Several things have happened:
Changed look and feel
Added menu items
Configured rss feeds
Registered with and added links to FeedBurner and Technorati
Added copyright statement
Added Ads by Google
Added tagging (thanks to Ultimate Tag Warrior)
And:
Received first registered visitor and comment
Received first trackback
Received and deleted three false trackbacks
In [...]
Tom, September 24th 2006
Finding Your Inner CSS
I’ve been playing around with the Wordpress blog software and its attendant css (and php, not to mention xhtml) now for about a month. I’ve found a certain analogy with life in general. Sometimes no matter what you do, things just don’t come out right…or at least they don’t look the way you’d [...]
Tom, September 22nd 2006
1,100 More Laptops Missing
This just in from the Washington Post: Commerce Department discovers more lost computers.
Okay, I understand that accidents happen and equipment on occasion goes missing. But, puleeeez! We seem to be having an epidemic in the greater Washington, DC region regarding missing government laptops containing valuable, sensitive data. The potential privacy breaches are [...]
Tom, September 22nd 2006
YouTube and Warner Partnership
Congrats to Warner for getting it! They have entered into an agreement with YouTube for the use and distribution of Warner content.
“…we want to lead through innovation as opposed to litigation.” Alex Zubillaga, Warner’s executive vice president for digital strategy.
New York Times
Warner sees that YouTube, and the like, represent what is to be. [...]
Tom, September 21st 2006
Happy Belated Birthday to the Hard Drive
Yesterday was the 50th birthday of the hard drive:
PC World article
Newsweek article
Tom, September 14th 2006
Proofreading the Photocopies
Take a look at this article by Sean McGrath on mistrust of today’s technology. A couple of quote provide the gist:
Apparently (I am too young to remember) photocopier machines were greeted with suspicion in some quarters when they were first introduced. How can you know that the machine has made a perfect copy of [...]
Tom, September 14th 2006
Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due
I must say that, while my dsl ordeal was very frustrating, Verizon was able to deliver the goods four days ahead of schedule. For that, I’m very grateful.
Tom, September 14th 2006
Interim Solutions
This past June at the LITA Top Tech Trends session I mentioned that I believe that librarians need to look at all (or nearly all) of our library decisions as interim solutions. To some this may appear a bit on the naive side, or at the very least uninformed. This approach is, in fact, [...]
Tom, September 14th 2006
9/11 Catharsis
It’s a dreary, drizzly day here just outside Washington, DC. I got my fix of new and old data and images from 9/11/01 last evening and a little this morning, followed by my personal moments of silence. Then I went to the gym to work out my angst for the world. I [...]
Tom, September 11th 2006
