Staff Inflections

I've been playing around with Mozilla's (The people that bring you Firefox.) Thunderbird. I had tried using it a number of years ago and found it wanting but I recently had an excuse to try it again and it's much better. More over if you use Gmail setting up the account is almost fire and forget. So I'm kinda digging on it already only it doesn't have a calender which i wanted...only it DOES have a calender and it can be set up to allow access to your Google Calender from with in Thunderbird. All of a sudden this thing ROCKS. If you are interested in trying it just: Download Thunderbird Download the Add On called Lightning Download the Add On called Provider for Google Calender and then follow the instructions found here. It may take you a little bit to figure it all out but once you do it's REALLY EASY! And FREE! Did I mention that everything involved is free of charge? Cool enough? ~0ps

Time to weed out magazines from two years ago. Fun. Fun. Fun. If anyone is interested in magazines from 2007 please let me know. ~0ps

- or - "Oh no! I've got Linux in my Library!" I just downloaded and installed Ubuntu Linux on the catalog computer at my Library. For years we have been using a really old computer with a copy of Windows 2000 on it. It worked ok but had the annoying trait of not shutting down when you told it too. Well I finally got sick of it and since ALL it has to do is run Firefox I thought that Linux might be a good choice if I could figure out the install. I did a little looking around and determined that Ubuntu was among the most user friendly (read "windows like") of the various Linux Flavors. So I followed the instructions on their site and a few hours later I have a Linux box which should do everything I need it to and from what I'm seeing quite a bit more on top of that. More to follow as things develop. ~0ps edit: Oh yeah. We use Apollo Automation at my library, hence the Catalog only needing to run Firefox.

Well lets see. 23 things. 23 Blog Posts. A dozen or so new site signed up for (some of which I may actually continue to use. Nice.) and lots of new ideas for things I can do to make my libraries on-line presence more interesting. Not necessarily better mind you, but definitely more interesting. Would I do something like this again? Yes. Absolutely. I learned a lot and really enjoyed most of it. The only thing I would do differently has nothing to do with the program. If I had to do it over I would start just a bit sooner (more than 9 days out 8p ) so that I would have more time to really look at each Thing. I'm not sure if this Blog will ever be updated again but my gut says that it will. This may eventually become the Webermeiers main web site. I'd have to tweek a few things. Change the style a little, add some draperies but I think the ability to dynamically update the site could be very useful to me since I tend to be a fairly dynamic (as per the second listed d...

I subscribe to about 5 podcasts through iTunes . To be honest I rarely get around to listening to them. I like everything about the theory of a podcast. Pick a subject that interests you. Find a podcast or three about it. Listen a few times to make sure you can stand how they sound (a serious and common issue with podcasts IMHO) and repeat with a different subject. After a while you theoretically can create your very own talk Radio that only covers things you are interested in. Only I never get around to actually listening to them. I even have an Ipod so it's not that it's even difficult for me. I just have never gotten in the habit I guess. Anyway. I bopped around on a few of the Podcast specific search engines and there were several interesting sounding Podcasts but I actually found mine just by searching google. Maybe now that I'm (kinda sorta) getting used to the job I'll have time for Podcasts . Maybe I'll even come up with something for the Library ...

You have to sift through a lot of...uh...silt in order to find anything really worth while. That IS YouTube. Still if you have the patience and decent search-fu you can find some really amazing things. Video how too's; Hilarious clips; or just that music video you remember seeing 5 years ago by that band that you haven't seen in three...but it sure was a cool video. I on the other hand grabbed this. I play tested and did the layout for this game. It's very cool (even if I do say so myself) and if you have a RPG section in your Library I highly recommend this one...if it ever actually comes out. Yes. That was a shameless plug. :D ~0ps