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In some bizarre crossing of

In some bizarre crossing of worlds, I just discovered this post from Eric Muller, one of the UNC bloggers and a law professor here. It's about going caving with his daughter in Corbin, KY. Besides the fact that both Betsy and I are from KY, Corbin is about 20 minutes, if that, from Betsy's parent's house. PLUS, I've caved in that area before…it's just down from Rockcastle County, where the Great Saltpetre Cave is located, and about 1 hour or so from Mammoth Cave (the largest cave in the world). Being a caver myself, I find this fascinating….wacky crossing of worlds.

FYI, for those that didn't know, I worked for 5 years at Carter Caves State Resort Park in KY, possibly the most beautiful place in the world. Not that all those pictures show it.

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Hi, my name is Jason, and I

Hi, my name is Jason, and I'm Addicted to Information? [Slashdot]

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Tons of fun at the 4th of J

Tons of fun at the 4th of July fireworks last night, and tossing frisbee with Abe and the gang beforehand. Got a few good pics, and since I mentioned Gallery before and finally got some pics up, take a look.

Question for Justin: I know you use Gallery as well….have you have issues with it being buggy at times? Mine seems to only want to upload 2 pics or less…not sure if there's a size restriciton on uploads somewhere that I'm missing. Also, does your install sometimes force you to logout and login to continue working with it? Mine locks occasionally. Figured I'd just ask here. 🙂

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Excellent technology day to

Excellent technology day today….finally managed to get Gallery (thanks Justin for the recommendation!) working, and now bets and I can start our online photo repository for our respective families to view. Nice.

It took a little bit of work…first wasn't happy with a missing program, then it wouldn't recognize the correct path for the photos themselves. Now I just need to figure out which CSS sections deal with which parts of the HTML, and I can figure out how to customize it a bit. Woo Hoo!

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Don't know who e

Don't know who else picked this out of the blogsphere, but Harvard now has an official privacy policy and terms of use for blogging by students. Even more interesting, the _default_ is a Creative Commons license.

Story from Scripting News:

http://scriptingnews.userland.com/2003/06/25#When:2:47:46AM

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Some quick
snapshots from the convention this weekend, to give you guys who aren't gamers
some sense of what it's like. Click on a picture for an enlargement.

The Card Hall, where all card games occur
during the convention. Yes, this is completely full at times. This pic
is about 1/3 of the total hall.

Another
view of the Card Hall. To give you some sense of scale of the convention,
there are at least 2 other rooms this size being used 24 hours a day (one
each for miniatures games and board games). That doesn't count the Role-Playing
areas that are scattered around.

Another
view of card game playing…some of the crew I hung out with all weekend.

The
guards at the doors checking to make sure you had a badge to enter the
Exhibit Hall were stormtroopers, complete with mic'd helmets and loudspeakers
to give them the right sound for it.
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Ok gang…I'm back, an

Ok gang…I'm back, and exhausted after nearly 1000 miles on the road, 4 days in Columbus, and something like 20 hours of sleep over those 4 days. Lots of game playing, lots of seeing friends…I'll have pics up later for those of you that have no idea what a gaming convention looks like. 🙂

But the blogging will resume.

Glad to be back.

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Just a quick blog….just m

Just a quick blog….just made it to Cincy, OH. 8 hours, 15 minutes door to door, with two quick pit stops. Not a bad drive, actually. Dinner tonight, then Columbus bound for Origins. Lots of pictures forthcoming from that, but no access after tomorrow…so it'll be up next week.

Have a great weeked, guys!

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Betsy and I were having a d

Betsy and I were having a discussion today about wierd names in our family. Mine just has a LOT of old fashioned, sort of “mountain” names. Here's a short list:

Van
Jorene
Thurman
Acey
Flo
Bernice (pronounced, for some reason, Ber-ness, no long e for the i)
Check (short for Chester)
Vida Lou (pronounced VYE-DA, not VEE-DA)

Not a lot of names that you'd find on birth certificates now. None of them appear in the top 1000 names from the last 12 years.

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Round-up of Links About SCOTUS Decision to Censor Library Internet Access.

Not too much new to report about the SCOTUS censorship decision yet, but here are more links from around the web. Some librarians are reporting calls from companies selling filtering software already. Oy.

Look twice at that Yahoo News headline – it refers to the Court approving “anti-porn” filters in libraries. What they fail to mention is that there's a heck of a lot more content than just porn that is also being blocked.

I want to make sure that I note that this ruling currently applies only to those libraries that accept federal e-rate money for technology and telecommunications. Unfortunately, with the funding situation facing most libraries today, many don't have a choice. And as Andrew Mutch implied in his message, it's a good bet that Congress will try to apply this logic to ALL federal funding now, which means pretty much every library everywhere.

It will be interesting to see if this applies to wireless internet within a library, too. What a major step backwards that would be.

[The Shifted Librarian]