Archive for May 2nd, 2004

Library Card Number as the Answer to a Secret Question

Sunday, May 2nd, 2004

When I signed up for a new e-mail account tonight (I now have 8 or 9), I noticed one of the security questions to verify a user’s identity is “What is your library card number?”
Addendum 5/5: I only have 8 e-mail addresses. The ninth one isn’t valid and I’m not sure I’m going to set […]

Profile of Nashville

Sunday, May 2nd, 2004

The March 2004 Sky magazine explores Nashville, site of the Special Libraries Association 2004 Annual Conference. About Belle Meade Plantation, location for the SLA News Division Awards Banquet, it says, “The ornate Victorian interiors at Belle Meade, once a renowned thoroughbred stud farm, are filled with memorabilia dedicated to its most famous resident, Iroquois, who […]

Article about Merriam-Webster Online

Sunday, May 2nd, 2004

This April 2004 Sky magazine article about the online Merriam-Webster dictionary discusses how the executives use the data gathered from online searches to revise the dictionary and its Web site. The Springfield, Massachusetts, company scrolls the search terms across a screen like an Internet search company does and compiles rankings and stats from a day’s […]

Blog Server Keeps Going Down

Sunday, May 2nd, 2004

I feel like I’m playing basketball this weekend with the blog server. I was hoping to catch up on some blogging I’ve been meaning to do, but the instability of the server is preventing me from getting to the blog and discouraging me from posting anything for fear that the new post will disappear with […]


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