You may have heard about the cruise ship that crashed in the Antarctic. The ship happens to be named the M/S Explorer. Ha! I didn’t know Microsoft built ships. Linux penguins are suspected of sabotaging the vessel.
Category Archives: Software
Working Hard – Playing Hard
November 24, 2007 – 12:08 am
I’ve been extremely busy since wrapping up several library conferences in October. I’ve got a few projects we’re trying to finish in the office and several more that we’re working on for some member libraries. Every project has some sort of technology aspect these days. So I tend to be involved in almost everything. Oh, [...]
October Wraps Up with ALAO
October 29, 2007 – 12:47 am
I spent Friday at the Academic Library Association of Ohio’s Annual Conference. I was invited to sit on a panel with Chad Boeninger, Linda Dobb, and Brian Gray. We answered audience questions inspired from Joe Janes‘ earlier keynote. Joe is a great speaker and I think the panelists handled the questions well. I also presented [...]
Kill the Kitten
September 23, 2007 – 10:53 pm
As I mentioned in a previous post, there’s a lot of interest among Ohio libraries in open source software. In the southwest corner, I’ve been getting questions on open source ILS’s, content management systems, public computers (e.g. Edubuntu), and wireless hotspots. Recently, several library organizations got together at the State Library to discuss how we [...]
Firefox for Development
August 23, 2007 – 8:54 pm
Firefox is a great web browser, but it also makes for a great development environment. With the right extensions loaded, you can really save some time tracing through code, finding bugs, and optimizing your site. Below are the extensions that I have loaded in Firefox. ColorZilla This extension puts a little eye dropper tool in [...]
