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Archive for April, 2004

Saturday, April 17th, 2004

Movable Type 3.0 Beta Testing

Well, the long wait for Movable Type 3.0 appears to be nearing an end, or at least light can be seen at the end of the tunnel. Six Apart announced today that beta testing will begin next next week. I filled out the beta testing form maybe I’ll get in at some point.
Once interesting [...]

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Wednesday, April 14th, 2004

Library Cats

I like libraries. I also like cats. So how is it that I had no idea that library cats existed? I wonder how many reference questions they answer?

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Tuesday, April 13th, 2004

The battle against spam

As I noted back in January, my greeneweb.com email address receives a lot of spam and I was using a spam filtering add-on for Outlook Express to combat it. But this seemed to me like mopping up the water but never fixing the problem. The previous host of greeneweb had recently implemented some spam [...]

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Saturday, April 3rd, 2004

Video games and doctor’s offices

Well I played a video game for the first time in months today. Nascar Thunder 2003 on the Xbox to be exact. I did better than I thought I would. My left hand is fine, but after a few minutes my right hand really hurt. Guess I’ll have to keep playing games to build up [...]

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Friday, April 2nd, 2004

Dragon NaturallySpeaking

I just installed Dragon NaturallySpeaking today. While my typing speed was pretty good, considering that I was typing with three fingers, I decided to try Dragon to see if things could go any faster. So far, I’m not impressed. While it seems to be doing a pretty good job, it makes errors often enough make [...]

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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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