Archive for April, 2006

Sunday, April 23rd, 2006

Smokey the Pimp

Based on Smokey here, you have to wonder what’s been going on at UT since I left….

Comments Off - Posted in Tennessee and UT Volunteers by Dan

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Saturday, April 15th, 2006

The real answers to the citizenship test

The not that bitter King of New Orleans got a quiz in which he gives the real answers to the U.S. citizenship test.

1 Comment » - Posted in Of Interest Online by Dan

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Monday, April 10th, 2006

People dialing the wrong number that won’t give up

Last night around 8:30 or so, we get a call on our home phone. We don’t use it much, we only have a land line for emergencies and the occasional local phone call. Usually the only calls we get are telemarketing calls.
This call was not a telemarketer, caller ID said it was from C. McClain [...]

4 Comments » - Posted in Thoughts on Life by Dan

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Friday, April 7th, 2006

What is a librarian?

Library Journal has a short article about a session at the recent PLA conference in Boston, titled “Is the MLS Needed for a Career in Public Librarianship?”. Daniel Walters, director of the Las Vegas–Clark County Library District, sees nothing wrong with hiring non librarians, especially in technical areas such as cataloging. Cataloging is being [...]

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Wednesday, April 5th, 2006

Apple sends Windows to Boot Camp

Apple released a beta of Boot Camp today, an “official” Windows/Mac dual boot solution. It will be built in to OS X 10.5 “Leopard”. The ability to easily dual boot means that my next computer will be a Mac.
Of course I recently bought a G4 mini, and my Dell is not even a year old, [...]

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