Archive for July, 2003

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 [...]

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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 bear [...]

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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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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2003

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. However I do agree with Web [...]

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