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Saturday, October 25th, 2003

Amazon’s “Search Inside the Book”

I initially thought that Amazon’s “Search Inside the Book” was going to be full-text searchable. Well, not exactly. You can search for words but the results are displayed as images of the page the text is on. This is mainly for copyright reasons and I guess it makes sense. If they were making a research [...]

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Friday, October 24th, 2003

Comment spam and MT Blacklist

Well I had my first experience with comment spam yesterday so I did what any good Movable Type user would do, I installed MT Blacklist. I haven’t had any new comments yet, so I don’t know how well it works yet. If you want to install it, I’d wait until Monday when the new [...]

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Wednesday, October 22nd, 2003

Digital Cuneiform and things not to do at your library

UCLA has a Cuneiform Digital Library online. I’ve only seen a few cuneiform tablets, safely behind glass of course. Digital libraries like this are great because it allows access to things people probably wouldn’t be able to see otherwise. But the tablets will definitely last longer than this incarnation of the digital library will. Cuneiform [...]

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Tuesday, October 21st, 2003

Blogrolling

Well I finally got Blogrolling set up here. Doesn’t look any different from what I had before, but that’s by design. I decided to get Blogrolling Gold, both to support a cool service and for the ability to have multiple rolls.
Given time and desire I could have gotten most of the functionality for free [...]

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Monday, October 20th, 2003

High School and Personality Tests

I’ve been thinking about personality tests and high school lately so imagine my surprise when Julie Miyamoto posts a comment to my blog. I went to high school with Julie and had some classes with her at ETSU during my time in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences there. She has an online [...]

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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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