This Is a Real Quest for Maps

This Is a Real Quest for Maps “When David Rumsey decided to take his private collection of 19th and 20th century maps public, even the world's largest library couldn't handle the load. So, rather than donate his vast collection of 150,000 maps to the Library of Congress, Rumsey decided to put it online. The result… Continue reading This Is a Real Quest for Maps

For Real Singles, Chastity Is Hardly the Tough Part

40 days and 40 nights or… Hollywood, Lent and Abstinence. L.A. Times: For Real Singles, Chastity Is Hardly the Tough Part “Hollywood has it all wrong. Abstinence is easy because finding the right person isn't.” [2020 Hindsight]

Nothing is as simple as it seems

Joel on Software: Nothing is as simple as it seems. “…if you think you can refactor your wrongly-implemented file-copy function to make it preemptive rather than threaded as quickly as I could write that sentence, you're in deep denial.” [Archipelago]

Camworld

Camworld: “Hmmm, would it be useful to be able to use your cell phone to scan bar-codes? I think so. A few years back when I was working at Borders.com we were pushing hard for the management to accept the idea of letting customers in the stores use portable bar-code scanners to build a “digital… Continue reading

Camworld

please contact her

Lori P. would like to find out if anyone knows of libraries that are using scanned images of book covers on their web sites, whether they scan them in themselves or “steal” them from Amazon, the publisher, etc. If you know of any, please contact her! [The Shifted Librarian]

The Shifted Librarian has some thoughts on Google Bombs.  I don't get the analysis.  Search engines rank returns.  How do you propose they rank it?” [John Robb's Radio Weblog

“The Shifted Librarian has some thoughts on Google Bombs.  I don't get the analysis.  Search engines rank returns.  How do you propose they rank it?” [John Robb's Radio Weblog] I'm worried about the weight given to blogs, as much as I love them. When Matt Haughey comes up higher than the company Critical IP site purely… Continue reading

The Shifted Librarian has some thoughts on Google Bombs.  I don't get the analysis.  Search engines rank returns.  How do you propose they rank it?” [John Robb's Radio Weblog

Macromedia Unveils Latest Release of Flash, ColdFusion

Macromedia Unveils Latest Release of Flash, ColdFusion. Macromedia Monday unveiled Flash MX, the latest version of the Macromedia Flash development environment, and discussed plans for its release of ColdFusion MX this summer. [Product News]