Archive for December, 2005

Sunday, December 11th, 2005

Finally something del.ico.us

Finally something that will make me remember that I have a del.ico.us account, a Firefox extension. I’ve used it several times today, comes in handy for those things you don’t want to clutter up your Firefox bookmarks with.

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Saturday, December 10th, 2005

Technology Update

Well, if you read my post earlier today, you know that my iMac is dead and that my iPod was having issues. After reinstalling QuickTime and iTunes, I let the iPod charge completely and also plugged in the iPod dock to one of the FireWire ports on the back of the Dell instead of the [...]

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Saturday, December 10th, 2005

On the death of an iMac

It appears my iMac is dead. It was getting a bit long in the tooth, I bought it in February of 2003 as a refurbished unit from Small Dog Electronics and it’s seen a lot of use since then, mainly as a web testing machine and iTunes jukebox. In any case it’s almost always turned [...]

4 Comments » - Posted in Information Technology and Thoughts on Life by Dan

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Thursday, December 8th, 2005

Snow

I’ve confirmed that Missouri is a Midwestern state and not Southern. One, nobody has a drawl around here (except me sometimes) and two, it’s cold. The temperature has been below freezing for a week and now there’s at least a couple inches of snow on the ground.
I like snow in the mountains were I [...]

1 Comment » - Posted in Missouri and Thoughts on Life by Dan

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Monday, December 5th, 2005

Thoughts on Tennessee, Missouri and the Ph.D

I got an email today that latest edition of the UT SIS Alumni Newsletter was online. It looks like SIS is finally getting some focus and direction thanks to the new director, Ed Cortez. The focus is pretty heavy on information science and technology, but they’ve still got some library focused items in the works [...]

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