Posted in General Thoughts on Sep 30th, 2004 No Comments »
There are three really interesting articles in the October issue of Wired.
One article is about WiMax (aka the 802.16 wireless standard). So what
makes WiMax better than Wi-Fi (802.11b/g). Well two things. First,
WiMax will go a much greater distance than Wi-Fi, 30 miles according to
the article. Second, it has higher data transfer rates 75 mbps. Analyst
anticipate [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Sep 29th, 2004 No Comments »
Tonight my library held a banned books reading for ALA's “Banned Books Week” and it
was a success. We had members of both the college and local community
attend and read banned books. The event which was co-sponsored by the
College Writing Committee and the Library, had twelve readings. I
chose to read a passage from Harry Potter and [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Sep 28th, 2004 No Comments »
Library Search AIM Bot
“I love perl. I just coded up a AIM bot to search some random library.
Took me 20 minutes. I should be doing my ECE100 homework, but at least
I got something interesting done. You can check out the code at lib_aim_search.pl or actually use it by messaging easyasy2kbot.
The bot should be up as [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Sep 28th, 2004 No Comments »
XP Service Pack 2 Testing
So I finally got my testing of XPSP2 done and it wasn't as bad as I had
thought. SFX works fine with things set on medium (the default) or low.
The high setting seems to break everything involving pop-ups and the
only way around it is to put the urls for the sites you [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Sep 23rd, 2004 No Comments »
Understanding Web Log Analysis
I just found a good article
on web log analysis from in a 1998 issue Network Notes a publication of
the National Library of Canada. Although old this article is still
relevant. It does an excellent job of describing the information in a
log file and what can be learned or inferred from examining log files.
The [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Sep 22nd, 2004 No Comments »
Something new in Bloglines!
I went into Bloglines to read my news and found something new that I
hadn't seen before. There are now little checkboxes that you mark
things to “Keep New”.
This allow you to go back to something that you may have skimmed but
not read to your satisfaction. I was clipping these things before but
this is [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Sep 22nd, 2004 No Comments »
I'm so excited! Last week I got the author's proofs for my first
publication in a peer-reviewed journal. The hardest thing is
reading the article proofs closely enough to make sure that there
aren't any mistakes! A collegue suggested I read it out loud, which
seemed to work well, but is a little weird, particularly for someone
who is bit [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Sep 22nd, 2004 No Comments »
Today I got to hear Roy Tennant speak on Digital Library Collections & Services courtesy of WNYLRC. The presentation I saw is one of a set Tennant is doing at various regional library councils in NY. Everytime
I hear Tennant speak I get at least three or four new ideas and scratch
down several quotes. So I [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Sep 22nd, 2004 No Comments »
Firefox steal IE's users
It seems that Firefox is making a dent in IE's market share. A quote from a recent article in BusinessWeek states “For the first time in more than seven years, Microsoft is losing Web browser market share. And it's not just a blip.
According to Web analytics company WebSideStory, Microsoft's share of
browser users [...]
Posted in Blogging, RSS on Sep 22nd, 2004 No Comments »
RSS Traffic Issues
There is another good article about the traffic and bandwidth issues created by RSS feeds at http://thewhir.com/features/kaye-rsstraffic.cfm .
One nice thing about this article is that goes beyond explaining the
problems that RSS creates. It also offers web managers some possible
solutions. This includes inserting a cache between the server and the
Internet, using GZIP compression for [...]
