Arriving Somewhere

The next three days I’ll be hanging out in Crystal City at the Computers in Libraries conference. The sessions look pretty good — I’m especially excited about a day-long track about the “Next-Gen Catalog Interface“. Right up my alley.
This will be my third CiL and while I’ve enjoyed each one, I’m considering a [...]

We are starting to get some questions at the Information Desk about troubleshooting Windows Vista on new laptops that students have purchased. Usually simple things like “how do I join the wireless network” or “how do I add network printers” and some not so simple like using Office 2007. So I asked for [...]

Interesting article that highlights how far behind the United States is when compared to other nations in terms of internet broadband speeds and users.

Google recently implemented a new feature for their popular map service called “street view”. Using it you can have a ground level panoramic view of streets and neighborhoods. Currently it is only available for a few major cities (San Francisco Bay area, Las Vegas, Denver, Miami, and New York City) but I’m sure that more [...]

In May Estonia experienced what might be considered the first case of state-sponsored cyber warfare. It began with the Estonian government’s decision to remove a World War II-era monument to a Soviet soldier from a park, sparking riots by ethnic Russians within Estonia as well as an official protest by the Russian government. [...]

Log in to Google Docs & Spreadsheets if you haven’t already today. They’ve updated the interface to include the ability to organize your documents into folders. Is it just me or is Google trying to replace our desktops?

Michael Gorman wrote a couple of interesting blog (!) posts in which he assails Web 2.0 and the “wisdom of crowds” as “a desire to avoid individual responsibility; anti-intellectualism…” In his words, “The life of the mind in the age of Web 2.0 suffers, in many ways, from an increase in credulity and an [...]

An interesting post-mortem of the Russian cyber attack on Estonia this past month. In Estonia, what may be the first war in cyberspace

I have been using the Macintosh almost exclusively at work for two weeks now. I would say that’s pretty successful! I can see why Mac fans are such diehard fans. The biggest appeal to me is the user interface. It is obvious that much more effort has been put into the [...]

Today I finally found the time to get started on my new Mac. The first thing I did? Shrink the pesky dock and “undock” most of the applications that are on it by default. And move it to the left side of the screen. Then I changed the screen resolution and [...]