Archive for May, 2004

Sunday, May 30th, 2004

LISNews versus Library Juice - Round two

For a while now there has been a bit of a feud going between Rory Litwin of Library Juice and Blake Carver and the community at LISNews. It began with Blake’s article at LISNews wanting some right wing counter-balance to the left wing tilt of the LISNews community.
This led to an initial response from [...]

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Wednesday, May 26th, 2004

New look to the site (not permanent)

As part of upgrading to MT 3.0 D, I took all the templates back to the default. The result is a pretty bland looking site. All I did to the default templates was modify the stylesheet a bit. Not sure sure how long I’ll keep the site like this… maybe until MT 3.0 final is [...]

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Wednesday, May 26th, 2004

Updated to Moveable Type 3.0 D

Well I updated the blog to MT 3.0 D I had thought about switching to WordPress and I still might at some point, like the next time the MT license changes. But I got a beta tester discount and had previously donated to MT, so my upgrade cost was quite small.
But for those thinking about [...]

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Saturday, May 22nd, 2004

The greatest library of them all

The BBC is reporting that the Library of Alexandria has been found. Thirteen huge lecture halls have been uncovered that could have housed a total of 5,000 people.

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Friday, May 21st, 2004

SETI@Home and distributed computing

SETI@Home turned five years old on May 17. Five years yielding very little of interest. And as of today I have completed 520 data units. That’s more than 92.496 percent of their users and puts me in 374,784th place out of 5,000,834 users. Which means most people don’t do much but the top 10 [...]

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