You can’t find these just anywhere anymore, it turns out. Am I the last person to remember using PeeChees? It was an unwritten law: you must bring at least one folder, it must be a PeeChee, and you must refer to it as a PeeChee. The design has been the same since time [...]
The stuffy elevators don’t wow this reporter, but “as far as the library’s technology is concerned, it’s thumbs up.” See http://snipurl.com/6wn4 . I predict that with a little clever marketing, use of wi-fi will follow, when (if?) users and area visitors realize SPL is a gigantic hotspot.
I like the reporter’s fantasy [...]
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Has everyone forgotten that Ronald Reagan, purportedly the “Great Communicator,” ignored AIDS–would not refer to it, let alone support funding for the entire AIDS crisis–throughout most of his administration? I am listening to encomium after encomium in disbelief. He’s being remembered as charming, fatherly, courtly, and good-humored. Even BBC World News reporters gushed [...]
They are probably weary of me by now, given that I am not exactly part of that high-end developers’ community they need feedback from for 3.0, but Movable Type support folk have been terrific (and terrifically kind).
I finally “get” the templates (although I won’t be doing too many tweaks without extensive tutorials or [...]
Did anyone else open Amazon this week to find they had a “Plog?” “Your Amazon.com Plog is a diary of events that will enhance your shopping experience, helping you discover products that have just been released, track changes to your orders, and many other things. Just like a blog, your Plog is sorted in reverse [...]
After several days of work with very patient Six Apart staff, they pinpointed something crucial: I hadn’t modified the MT 3.0 default templates. They pointed me to some documentation I hadn’t seen during purchase and registration. Ah hah! I immediately solved a problem with a test blog I had created (involving a DateTime module [...]
Posted yesterday to the ALA Council list: “Following up on our discussions over the last several months, we have arranged for wireless internet connections in the Orange County Convention Center to be offered to the ALA Executive Board and Council during the ALA Annual Conference in Orlando.” ALA is ponying up $4,000 for [...]
