I have been so industrious as of late that I have almost forgotten to slow down a bit and have a little fun, this is a “b” blog after all. Well, some folks might define fun as sniffing glue or waging war on same-sex marriages, but for me fun is nothing more [...]
Archive for October, 2006
CONELRAD: an Online Mecca for Cold War Culture
Published by October 26th, 2006 in movies and video. 2 CommentsLibrarians Rule! Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb
Published by October 24th, 2006 Uncategorizedin . 5 CommentsMy English 101 class spent the evening last night with Jack Bales, the Humanities librarian at UMW. Jack’s teaching style is wonderfully enthusiastic and rigorous. He worked us through the intricacies of database searching with dash and exactitude. He spent a bit of time discussing the reliability of sources using an example that [...]
I saw the most recent announcement from WordPress this morning regarding the latest, stable version of WPMU (ver. 1.0 -a milestone) and the integration of a phpbb forum with WordPress, known as bbpress. Both of these developments are really exciting for many reasons, but I am going to take a minute here about bbpress [...]
Upon signing out of Fickr after uploading some images, I was presented with an advertisement for something called the Yahoo Time Capsule. See the ad below:
My interest was piqued by the “Smithsonian Folkways Recordings” link as well as the whole Time capsule idea (a concept that immediately reminds me of Andy Warhol). So I [...]
At Faculty Academy 2006 last Spring, Rachel Smith gave an excellent presentation on Pachyderm. Pachyderm is …
… an easy-to-use multimedia authoring tool. Designed for people who have little or no multimedia authoring experience, Pachyderm is accessed through a web browser and is as easy to use as filling out a web form. Authors upload their [...]
Thanks go to Dmitry Dulepov for bringing Andreas Viklund’s opens source templates to Typo3 (currently typo3 has extensions for Andreas01 & andreas09). I have been playing with andreas01 here if you want to take a look (it is still a bit buggy in IE -but, hey, what isn’t?). Additionally, if you are looking for more [...]
I recently returned to an online exhibit I had worked on last Spring with John Pearce’s Museum lab class. Link. The site was running on Typo3 version 3.8, and I spent some time a few weeks ago updating it to the latest version (4.0.2). (By the way, I tried the fantastico upgrade shortcut which [...]
A few times over the last month I have exceeded the limits of the server CPU on Bluehost. Three of the four times I have gotten the message above (which suspends my entire account for at least a few minutes). When Ireceived this message I had been utlizing what I think are relatively undemanding web [...]
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