Update: supposedly most of the problems have been ironed out… we’ll see. How many hours have I spent on this?
I’ve been on the phone for an hour now. I particularly liked how the SBC rep answered the phone today, “How can I provide you with excellent customer service?” I spelled it out, in a loud, [...]
Tags: Hot Tech · Two Minutes Hate
First, the Washington Post takes money to distribute a divisive, homophobic advertorial. Find a summary of the kerfuffle and a link to the drekkish material at “Editor and Publisher”: http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000725897
Next, I learn that last night, 20/20 aired a show challenging that Matthew Shepard’s death was a hate crime, a show called “intellectually brave” by Virginia [...]
Tags: Gay Rights · Get Real!
My blog is being spammed very heavily by an email address from Yahoo, whatyaouwnat2say@yahoo.com — 495 messages in the last 24 hours. Fortunately, due to Movable Type’s excellent comment registration, the spam isn’t posted on the blog itself; I just have a lot (hundreds) of comments to delete from this address inside the blog, not [...]
Tags: FRL Penalty Box · Two Minutes Hate
We’re about to head out on our annual shopping day excursion to San Francisco (we notoriously never actually buy anything; we just have a nice ladies’ lunch, enjoy the holiday window displays, and make fun of the overpriced clothes in Needless Markups).
But I cannot leave the house without commenting that with respect to my [...]
Tags: This and That
Thanks to a reader, I know I can use upper case for Yahoo. Thanks! I’ve created an AIM link (thank you, Bill Drew!), but am still looking for the Yahoo Messenger equivalent–anyone know what that might be, if it exists?
Here’s the AIM link: AOL IM
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Tags: Hot Tech
How great to see IM on the cover of LJ, by way of Librarianinblack, and go Aaron! As for the commenter who said she would be the devil’s advocate, then questioned IM because it was “only” 400 IMs in a few months: first, the devil does just fine on his own without any help from [...]
Tags: Hot Tech
So a few days ago I’m somewhere, not around librarians, and I mention that I really like what Oprah has done for reading, and a couple of people say, but her choices are terrible. So I decided to test that hypothesis, and concluded that I wouldn’t mind being as bad a writer as half the [...]
Tags: Book Reviews
Didn’t take long, did it? From the NY Times: “House and Senate negotiators have tucked a potentially far-reaching anti-abortion provision into a $388 billion must-pass spending bill, complicating plans for Congress to wrap up its business and adjourn for the year. The provision may be an early indication of the growing political muscle of social [...]
Dave and Sarah object to my post about blogging during presentations, but in doing so they reveal some of the weaknesses of blogging.
Dave likens blogging to citizen journalism, a sort of you-are-there Capotian reportage, and justifies blogging during presentations accordingly. Sarah then expands on this point, saying that blog entries are really just note-taking. [...]
Tags: Hot Tech
I tell you, it’s been quite a week. I haven’t felt so much in the presence of major change since the day back in 1993, was it, that I installed Mosaic and got Trumpet Winsock working, and for the first time saw NASA images on my computer.
First last Friday I was FRBR-ized, then Yahoo and [...]
Tags: Another Library Blog · Best of FRL · Librarianship