Posted in Tech Demons on Oct 19th, 2007 4 Comments »
Yesterday was not been a particularly good day. I thought I’d try something new and do one of my upcoming presentations in GoogleDocs. I’ve never used the presentation creation functionality before and thought it would be a nice way to learn. Everything started out well. I was able to add nifty pictures to my slides [...]
Posted in General Thoughts, Tech Demons on Apr 6th, 2007 4 Comments »
Ever since I upgraded to Wordpress 2.1 (I’m on version 2.1.3 now) the post page in Wordpress has been acting weird. Often when I click the “Save and Continue” or the “Save” button I get a page that says “Are you sure you want to edit this post?”. This happens at random intervals that I [...]
Posted in Tech Demons on Aug 1st, 2006 1 Comment »
It is amazing some days how a small fix can turn into a pit of technological quicksand. I was working on writing an update or two to our add-on to Movable Type on Friday and got things working on the development box only to encounter a MAJOR issue on the production server. Ironically, the problem [...]
Posted in RSS, Tech Demons on Jun 6th, 2006 5 Comments »
Sometimes you sit down and plan something only to discover that all the desired traits make things impossible under current technologies. This seems to be the case for our ongoing internal blog projects. These blogs (and their RSS feeds) are password protected because the content on them is really part of our intranet. In order [...]
Posted in Library Systems, Tech Demons on May 5th, 2006 3 Comments »
I have a sinking suspicion that MPOW blocks IRC traffic (I recently confirmed this with campus IT). I can understand why this might be. Wanting productive employees and trying to keep the network secure. However, I have a legitimate use for IRC in my job. There is an IRC channel called #code4lib whose members have [...]
Posted in Tech Demons on Feb 15th, 2006 No Comments »
I’m not really sure what exactly is wrong with the Internet access in my hotel room except to say that it is flaky. It works intermittently and I’ve been very cautious in creating blog posts to make sure I save what I’ve been working on frequently. I’ll ask at the desk later this morning what [...]
Posted in Tech Demons on Oct 24th, 2004 No Comments »
I'm having one of those weeks where I can't get technology to work
inmy favor. I have several projects that I have been working on off and
onthis semester and I feel like the technology is conspiring against
me.Either that or my time is so stuffed with other things that I don't
havemy normal amount of patiences to get [...]
Posted in Tech Demons on Sep 3rd, 2004 No Comments »
Servers, viri, no power oh my!
Well this week has certainly been exciting in the library. The week
started with assorted server problems. We were trying to clean old
stuff off one not knowing who stuff belonged to when another server
decided it needed to misbehave. Next we lost access to our servers
completely when there was a power outage [...]
Posted in Tech Demons on Aug 27th, 2004 No Comments »
Another
Forced Hiatus
Radio is
acting up yet again, for what is still apparently no good reason. I have three
big deadlines in the next two weeks, so I just don't have time right now to keep
messing it with it to get it to post what I'm writing. Even though I have a lot
I wanted to post about, it's [...]
Posted in Tech Demons on Jul 12th, 2004 No Comments »
BAD DAY!
Somedays you know you should have stayed home in bed. Today was one of those days. It started with me calling to check on the people that host my blog because it seemed like things haven't been working since Friday. Evidently the server got a “rat” and it was all downhill from there. I [...]
