Laurabelle's Blog

Yesterday as I was waking up I heard some commentary on NPR which mirrored some thoughts I had heard myself, namely the similarities between this coming war and the crusades. Of course I'm simplifying and condensing all the crusades into one, which is not fair to the complexity of that history, but I don't know [...]

It occurs to me that it would be cool to research how people organize their own bookshelves. This may indeed become my research project for LIS 570, whenever I get around to taking it. Outside of libraries, how do people arrange books for their own consumption?

Note (16 June 2004): Not only has my library-blog been defunct for over a year, but the University of Washington is going to delete my webspace in a few months. Therefore, I have removed the link to that blog from this post. You may have noticed that my blogroll contains a link to Laurabelle the [...]

A few weeks ago I thought I would be cool and make life hard for people who want to steal my bandwidth by linking to my images from their webpages. Not that I have many images to steal, but I thought it was a good idea for if I ever did. (I got the idea [...]

Sorry to do the linky-linky thing again, but this article about Microsoft's problems and how they were self-inflicted is really vindicating. It's not just why Microsoft is evil, it's why Microsoft is going to suffer for it. Evil contains the seeds of its own destruction, y'know.

The UW College Republicans had a rally on Saturday in support of US troops. I must admit I find this a bit of a joke, kind of like Conservative Awareness Month. UW has an enrollment of about 40,000, and the rally pulled about 60 people. Face it guys, you're in Seattle. Officially the rally wasn't [...]

At the time that I wrote my last entry about banning nasty user-agents, I tried blocking them with mod_rewrite, but I couldn't make it work. Later Mark Pilgrim wrote a blog entry about using mod_rewrite to block abusive sites and agents, and today I got around to trying out his examples. I still am not [...]

The way to a man's heart may be through his stomach, but the way to this man's heart is through his dog.

I've been using XHTML for quite a while, maybe a year and a half or so. All that time, I've been serving it as text/html, mostly because I didn't know any better. Knowing nothing of XML at the time, I assumed that XHTML was the future and that of course I should use it. However, [...]

My mother sent me this picture a few days ago: That's my cat, Goldie, breaking in the quilt that my mother is making me as a graduation present. (MHC graduation, that is.) Mom says that Goldie sleeps on it constantly and that she likes both sides but especially the flannel backing, which is the side [...]