Archive for July, 2003

Sunday, July 13th, 2003

Zone Alarm Pro

I just got Zone Alarm Pro for my Windows machine, not that I really needed it, I’m already behind a router so not a whole lot gets through anyway but ZA Pro has some good ad and pop-up blocking features and email protection. Update: the ad and pop-up blocking is nice but Zone Alarm is [...]

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Monday, July 7th, 2003

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. In other news my main clown infozo has moved [...]

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Monday, July 7th, 2003

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 wonder if the [...]

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Monday, July 7th, 2003

Bless me father, I ate a lizard

Just thought I would post of 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 world. People have turned against science and learning and life as reverted to a medieval existance. And as they did in the Middle Ages, [...]

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