Posted in Library Tech on Nov 24th, 2004 No Comments »
My current project is to identify a decent groupware system to replace the ad hoc, messy combination of poorly organized HTML pages and fileshare directories. The most necessary features include shared calendaring, instant messaging, meeting room booking, PDA syncing, and a wiki or CMS. Oh yeah, and it would be nice if it ran on [...]
Posted in Library Tech on Nov 22nd, 2004 No Comments »
One of the major issues in maintaining a large web site with many authors is that of keeping everything up to date. In our system, authors edit HTML pages on a Windows file share, and those same files are served up on the web site. Unfortunately, this means that any changes the authors make are [...]
Posted in Stories on Nov 22nd, 2004 No Comments »
Thought, Inspiration, and Mastery loomed over the square, each firmly cemented to their pedestals atop the three arches in the grand entrance of the cathedral of Knowledge. Beneath them flowed the constant stream of the prodigal and the pious, the lay and the clergy, and, with each passage in and out, the massive figures bestowed [...]
Posted in Library Tech on Nov 19th, 2004 No Comments »
In the past, I’ve maintained a secret page of links for jumping to various resources I use frequently. Many of these links require authentication to view, and a few are broken. This blog may soon take the place of that page. Several people I know use such secret link pages as a way to access [...]
Posted in Library Tech on Nov 19th, 2004 No Comments »
Mission:
This blog will record my thoughts about the technologies and issues I encounter during my career as an information technology librarian. Since I’m currently a (temporary) systems librarian at the University of Washington Libraries, I’ll focus on those platforms and applications which most affect my work — Innovative Interfaces Inc., Linux, Apache, PHP, Java, Perl, [...]
Posted in Stories on Nov 3rd, 2004 No Comments »
For what seemed like millennia, we hung in the superposition of right and wrong, life and death, light and darkness. We simultaneously longed for and dreaded the hammer’s fall. The conclusion of this quantum state would determine the fate of us all, and every mote in that soup of yes and no wavered (some more [...]