Laurabelle's Blog

I requested Muriel Spark's Memento Mori from KCLS because I wanted an audio book, and I thought it sounded like a potentially interesting mystery story. The catalog summary reads: A voice on the telephone warns, Remember, you must die. The recipient of the grim message is elderly Dame Lettie Colston, but soon ten of Lettie's [...]

I have to write an RFP for my systems administration class, and it’s actually rather an interesting assignment. It’s a good exercise to have to do one hypothetically, before actually being thrown at the problem when a real system is on the line. Besides, I get to make up lots of details that weren’t in [...]

My tagline: Making it up as I go along. Now with extra librarian! My tagline run through Babelfish ten times: The member, as I go to the length. Fullfilled with the additional librarian becomes! Ahhh, the wonders of modern technology!

This weekend was not terribly illustrious. The ASIS&T Pacific Northwest Chapter Annual Conference was on Friday and Saturday, but I only went to the Saturday morning sessions because I was too energy-less on Friday. I wouldn't even have gone on Saturday morning, I think, if I hadn't said I would volunteer. I'm glad I went, [...]

I can't really say much about this that hasn't already been said here. Halfway through the documentary/drama What the #$*! Do We Know!?, the key question shifts from the scientific (How does our knowledge of quantum physics redefine what it means to exist?) to the self-help (How can I use this knowledge of quantum physics [...]

Wednesday I was bumming around on the Web and read a blog entry by pjm mentioning browser hijacker programs like CoolWebSearch that take over your browser, open pop-ups, change Internet Explorer favorites, add sites to "trusted sites" lists (so that IE will download and install software without asking), and block sites like Lavasoft that offer [...]

Rant alert! I don't know if this happens anywhere else, but at the iSchool there are a lot of people who call webserver logs weblogs, and it bugs the crap out of me. I've explained it to people several times, but they just don't seem to get it. I guess people make this mistake because [...]

I've been thinking more about Ben and Mena, Six Apart, and this licensing scheme, and I've decided that I don't blame them for this turn of events. They started developing Movable Type in their spare bedroom, in their spare time, and as it got more popular, they decided it would be great if they could [...]

According to the Zodiac Personality Test, I'm a Capricorn. It's bullpocky, of course, because none of the possible answers to the questions fit me at all, and besides, I'm a Scorpio.

It looks like I won’t be upgrading to MT 3.0. Six Apart is trying to put a happy face on it, but their pricing scheme is frankly absurd, and Shelley is right that there’s no guarantee of a free version past 3.0. It’s really too bad, and I think (hope) that Ben and Mena will [...]