Archive for August 20th, 2003

I’m Back in the Land of Those with Internet Access at Home

Wednesday, August 20th, 2003

Out of sheer frustration, I tried something a blog reader suggested to me over the phone last night and it worked. I’m so baffled. If I summon the dialtone on my cordless phone, my modem can dial fine. I can get a dialtone fine from the back of my modem, so I [...]

Chicago Area Solo Librarians Experts Database

Wednesday, August 20th, 2003

The Chicago Area Solo Librarians has released an experts database of solo librarians in the Chicago area ” … to provide a knowledge base of solo librarian talent in the area to encourage professional interaction, consultation and support with other local solos.”
(A solo librarian is a librarian who works in a library alone, is the [...]

Waiting for Google News Alerts

Wednesday, August 20th, 2003

I’ve been continuing to run my daily Google News searches as well as being on the list for Google News Alerts. There were two new articles in my searches today. (Well, one new article listed twice.) I still haven’t seen today’s alert. The last one came on Friday just before 1 [...]

Neil Gaiman Blogs

Wednesday, August 20th, 2003

(Yeah, well, I’m sure a lot of you knew this already and I’m just slow.) I’m still amazed at who blogs and what they blog about. For those not in the know, Gaiman is an amazing author. He has a new book out, The Wolves in the Walls, which I should probably [...]

The Worm’s Got Me Double

Wednesday, August 20th, 2003

Besides having over 1000 messages in one of my e-mail accounts this morning (and that’s just this morning) and 570 by the end of business yesterday that’s related to the latest worm, I just got a bunch of bounced e-mail messages in another account. I didn’t send anything to those people. When I [...]


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