This past weekend I messed up my entire site (my fault) while trying to upgrade WordPress to the latest release. So in the spirit of making lemonade out of lemons, I decided to revamp the whole thing and bring in the New Year with a different look and feel. The biggest change is [...]

I’ve mentioned many times that I have close ties to my alma mater, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, so forgive me for yet another mention of them. I have been meaning for a while to mention here that they are providing some nice social web functionality. Included in this is a library-specific [...]

This is old news by now but I wanted to briefly mention that NASIG has transformed its Newsletter into a blog. Very nice! I can remember the days when the Newsletter was a print only publication, one of the few that I read front to back. Then for many years there was [...]

Of course this blog has an RSS feed that enables updates to get automatically transmitted to subscribers. But most people are still unfamiliar with RSS feeds, aggregators, and all that stuff. These people continue to feel more comfortable with using email as a way of notifying them when something they want to read [...]

Last week (or maybe the week before, I forget), the first public beta release of my favorite web browser, Flock, was released. Naturally I was eager to put it through its paces. I’m glad to say that this is an even better browser than before, with one or two exceptions. In my [...]

Last week I met face-to-face with the students who signed up for LIS578LE: Technical Services Functions at UIUC GSLIS. Overall it was a great time, including an informative meeting with librarians and staff who work in technical services areas at the Main Library at UIUC, followed by a guided tour. This invariably serves [...]

I’ve long been fascinated with passenger jets and the whole flying experience, so it was with keen interest that I’ve read as much as possible about the decades-long knock-’em-drag-out fight between Airbus and Boeing over who will truly dominate the skies. I have to admit to being partial to Boeing. Sort of like [...]

Last night I managed to solve the longstanding problem with the main RSS feed for FML. Basically I upgraded the version of WordPress I have been using to the latest release (ver. 2.0.2) which overwrote some files that, I think, had become corrupted. In the process I also changed the theme to a [...]

I’ve been having a consistent problem with the main RSS feed for this blog, such that only the title of each post is distributed, in spite of the fact that I’ve designated that the full text of each post be included. Be patient, I will try to figure this out. (And if anyone [...]

[Update: I forgot, dumb me, to link to the original post. Fixed.]
In a Slashdot posting read this a.m., entitled “Why Everyone Loves Apple,” I found some words that I think are very relevant to libraries, technology, debates about Library 2.0, Web 2.0, you name it. Here is the particular sentence I found to be so [...]