Yes this is cheesy but it does convey the message of proper care of Library materials. I recommend that Library workers view the video and implement it in training.
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Murder in the Stacks (Library Preservation) Read Post »
In a new addition of Iwata Asks a pictoral hardware tear down is conducted and discussed. I found the discussion concerning power consumption, performance and design to be very interesting.
I purchased a Wii after it’s launch but due to hardware shortages it took several weeks of searching. In this environment of increaing numbers of iOS and Android gadgets, I wonder what is the outlook for console makers like Nintendo. I find myself wanting to wait and see. As a new father I find I have little time for games and the bit of time I do have is used primarily on my desktop or Andoid phone. I have only broken out my NES and Wii since moving in for a quick test to see that both work… well and a few levels of SMB.
Prior to moving, my wife expressed an interest in having her blog on a simpler platform. I previously had it on a Drupal 6 installation which she often found the admin panel to be over whelming. I was self hosting my blog, her blog and a few other sites on an Ubuntu 10.04 LTS machine prior to the move. The server was in a 12 bay server case with and AMD Processor. I felt the hardware was a little larger and more power hungry than I needed for a home web and file server. Taking that all into account I decided to reinstall on an old Aspire One Netbook that I had.
I decided this time around that I would use Debian as the Operating System. While Ubuntu LTS had been good to me, I run Ubuntu on my desktop and I wanted to diversify slightly. For the blogging platform I decided to go with WordPress as it has a reputation of meeting my Wife’s requirement of simple. I decided to “eat my own dog food” and I migrated my blog over to WordPress also. Since WordPress is FLOSS software it also still makes me happy on that end of things.
The move hasn’t been all that simple. First was the hurdle of migrating blog content. Then there were the hurdles of setting up Plugins. I recently had a Google+ Plugin go haywire and repost a bunch of old content to my Google+ stream which I had to clean up. So far my wife seems to like having an Android app she can post from and I think she is happier with her blog.
If you know of any must have WordPress Plugins, please let me know about them in the comments. I would love trying a few things out.
The WordPress and Debian Experiment Read Post »
I just got the book shelves up in our new house and we pretty much have them filled already. So I pulled out the D&D book and cast Tenser’s Floating Disc to get the result’s on the left. I am pretty happy with the results. It’s nice that it’s all out of Hands McGrab’ems (my sons) reach. His books are also on floating shelves in his room and the top of his book case.
