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Archive for June, 2003

Sunday, June 29th, 2003

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

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Tuesday, June 24th, 2003

Now where did we put that Holy Grail again?

The Vatican Museum is now online. It joins the Vatican Library and Secret Archives which were already online. Maybe one day I’ll make it to Rome but for now this will have to do.

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Sunday, June 22nd, 2003

Monks

Just thought that since this site is called Library Monk, I’d post a few monkish links. Perhaps Jesuits? Or Trappists? Or Benedictines?

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Thursday, June 19th, 2003

NASCAR goes high tech

Proving that information technology is everywhere, it was announced today that the NASCAR Winston Cup Series will be called the Nextel Cup Series. That’s quite a big jump to go from a tobacco company to a wireless company. Maybe it will mean free wireless networking and/or cell phones at the tracks.

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Monday, June 16th, 2003

iTunes or “The Musical Apple”

Just ran across this video about the iTunes Music store. Describes iTunes well and has Bono in it which is very cool. I’ve bought quite a bit of stuff from the store including Elvis, U2 and the Clash. I have to say I like purchasing the music better than using P2P software, because you know [...]

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Written by Dan Greene, web designer and library geek. Topics covered here include Library and Information Science, Information Technology, web design, and maybe even a monk or two (more...)

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