Laurabelle’s Blog

In an early post about teamwork I anguished a bit about how hard it was going to be. I've been trying to come to grips with the difficulties I anticipate in working on a big database/information retrieval/user interface project. (For more info about the project, look at the LIS 540 course webpage and scroll down [...]

Some things I understand, like why I cut my finger while chopping up onions today (wasn't thinking properly and stuck my finger where I shouldn't have). Some things I don't, like why that driver this morning... but I'll start from the beginning. I was on my way to Braille class this morning. I waited for the [...]

What is it with telecoms arguing that they have a patent on basic WWW technology? BT tried it first, suing Prodigy over what BT said was a patent on hyperlinks. Not suprisingly, BT lost. Now SBC is saying that they have a patent on framed navigation. *sigh* I believe they will lose too, because they [...]

For some reason, Simon and Garfunkel is cooking music, especially Cecilia. When that song comes on, my heels itch to dance. It just makes me feel like sauteeing some onions and cooking up a nice big pot of chili, which is what I'm going to do right now.

On Monday I talked about the iSchool Friends of First Place Library and how we're raising money for the First Place library to buy a barcode scanner and barcodes. The specific way that we chose to raise this money was a raffle. Although in retrospect we probably shouldn't have picked a raffle since there are [...]

I meant to post this late yesterday evening, but the Sapphire worm took effect just as I started working on it. I added the Food category, and then when I came back to write my new entry, it seemed like I couldn't get any response from the server. I thought about emailing Kevin about it, [...]

Everyone must read this: Hobbits