Archive for March, 2004

Wednesday, March 31st, 2004

PHP for Designers

I came across a nice article at Digital Web Magazine that introduces PHP and tells you how to do simple, useful things. You won’t be able to write a complex script with this info, but it’s good for adding things like menus or copyright statements to every page of your site.

Comments Off - Posted in Web Design by Dan

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Wednesday, March 24th, 2004

Libraries and librarianship quotes and intellectual freedom quotes

While looking for this quote from the Rachel Weisz character in The Mummy (1999):
“I may not be an explorer, or an adventurer, or a treasure-seeker, or a gunfighter, Mr. O’Connell, but I am proud of what I am…I, am a librarian!”
I found a quotes page compiled by University at Buffalo, State University of [...]

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Sunday, March 21st, 2004

Movable Type Comments and custom site icons

Movable Type has always had a problem, at least when using Internet Explorer 6 as your web browser, which most people are. Comments have this habit of being invisible when you first view them, only to reappear when highlighted with the mouse or the page is reloaded. Turns out this is an easily fixed CSS [...]

2 Comments » - Posted in Library Monk News by Dan

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Saturday, March 20th, 2004

More buzz about Knoxville’s new library

The Metro Pulse, Knoxville’s alternative newspaper, has a nice article / editorial on Knoxville’s proposed new library. The library appears to have widespread public support and numerous building sites to choose from. Added to this is the desire to have a library on par will the Nashville Public Library, a lofty goal indeed. [...]

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Tuesday, March 16th, 2004

SETI@home - Mac vs. PC

I recently started running SETI@home again, first on my Pentium 4 3 GHz and then on my G4 800 MHz iMac. The SETI@ home website says that the the program uses about 16 MB of RAM while running and that above 64 MB will not affect how quickly data is processed. Since my iMac has [...]

5 Comments » - Posted in Information Technology by Dan

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