Monthly Archives: January 2006

Zach’s Couch Camouflage

January 31, 2006 – 11:31 pm

Here’s Zach hidden in plain sight on a couch at a friend’s house the other day. That’s skill.
couch, zach, hidden, photo, camouflage, funny, zach, zach tirrell

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Warren (and Dog Sledding) On TV Tonight

January 31, 2006 – 12:53 pm

The folks at WMUR’s Chronicle are featuring my friends Joe and Wendy and their dog sledding tonight. The photos above are of Justin in a race a few years ago (video of the finish also online). Warren hasn’t been so proud since we put the rocket up.
dog sledding, warren, winter, snow, wmur, television, wmur [...]

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Large Format Scanners For Document Imaging

January 30, 2006 – 6:50 pm

The market for large-format flatbed scanners is shrinking, so products turn over slowly and development is far behind my expectations. That said, the Epson GT-1500 doesn’t look like a bad choice for tight budgets. It has a relatively low maximum resolution of only 600DPI, but has the highest claimed scan speed of 30 seconds at [...]

By Casey | Posted in Libraries & Networked Information, Technology | Comments (2)

What Does Facebook Matter To Libraries?

January 30, 2006 – 3:03 pm

Lichen pointed me to this Librarian’s Guide to Etiquette post about new technologies:
Keep up to date with new technologies that you can co-opt for library use. So what if no one will ever listen to the pod casts of your bibliographic instruction lectures, subscribe to the RSS feeds from your library’s blog, send your reference [...]

By Casey | Posted in Libraries & Networked Information | Comments (14)

Walking Desk

January 30, 2006 – 12:17 pm

I used to have a stand-up desk at work. Then that got replaced by a pair of standup workstations above a more normal desk. Then I moved offices and switched roles from sysadmin to programmer and got the most normal desk ever.
Then, in January 2005, I heard an NPR story about Dr. Jim Levine’s study [...]

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Not Invented Here

January 29, 2006 – 9:07 pm

I couldn’t say it, but Alexander Johannesen could: libraries are the last bastions of the ?not invented here syndrome? (scroll down just a bit, you’ll find it).
Between Alex’s post and mine, I don’t think there’s much to say except this: there may be five programmers in the world who know how to work with Z39.50, [...]

By Casey | Posted in Libraries & Networked Information | Comments (4)

Reviews You Can Trust

January 29, 2006 – 12:20 pm

Cameron Moll (via Ryan Eby) wants ?weight? customer ratings to reflect how two products of the same rating might have wildly different numbers of reviews.
At first glance I agree with him, but after a moment of thought, I begin to wonder if I want the ratings weighted by the number of reviews, or the number [...]

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Indian Frankie

January 29, 2006 – 11:41 am

The plan was to meet Jessamyn and Greg at the India Queen last night, so discovering this note yesterday on Slashfood about ?frankies? had the added excitement of both discovering a new food I wanted to eat, and being in a position to get it that day — the sort of instant satisfaction one doesn’t [...]

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Conceding Defeat

January 28, 2006 – 5:54 pm

I wasn’t really in the game, but when samb posted the above picture of David Brown’s typical meal, I couldn’t help but take it as a challenge. I never did get around to snapping a picture to match samb’s, and now I’ve got accept that there are others with more skill and determination than me.
Slashfood [...]

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To Blog Or Not To Blog

January 28, 2006 – 4:38 pm

A friend decided the old pornstar name formula was good enough to use to name her blog, as she explains in her launch story. So, should this be the Nick Hastings blog? Elsewhere, another friend is struggling with the decision to blog.

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To Blog Or Not To Blog

January 28, 2006 – 11:56 am

A friend revealed his reticence to blogging recently by explaining that he didn’t want to create a trail of work and opinions that could limit his future career choices. Fair point, perhaps.
We’ve all heard stories of bloggers who’ve lost jobs as a result of the content of their posts. And if you believe the [...]

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When You Need To Talk To Customer Support

January 27, 2006 – 12:22 pm

It’s good to know Hard to Find 800 Numbers.com is there when you need it. Here are the top five:

 
HTF#
Who
Notes

Amazon.com
800-201-7575
877-251-0696
866-348-2492
206-266-2992
Cust. service
Seller support [...]

By Casey | Posted in Politics & Controversy, Technology | Comments (32)

Dawg

January 27, 2006 – 7:46 am

It’s Friday, a day when I drop my journalistic standards and usually publish whatever video or joke somebody forwarded me during the week. This one came from my dad:
A guy is driving around and he sees a sign in front of a house: ?Talking Dog For Sale.? He rings the bell and the owner tells [...]

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Plesk Bites

January 26, 2006 – 7:50 pm

I picked Plesk over CPanel as my server control panel because it was cheaper, looked better, and seemed to have all the features I wanted. What I didn’t know was that it came with PHP4 and MySQL3 at times when each was a major version ahead of that. When the good folks at my hosting [...]

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Quickly Noted: MooFlex CMS

January 26, 2006 – 3:15 pm

New AJAX-happy CMS: MooFlex, more info at Ajaxian (and in their podcast).
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