A Dragon in Sheep’s Clothing

Entries from February 2007

This blog has moved

February 11, 2007 · Leave a Comment

My very own WP hosting for this blog is now set up at http://www.dragonsheep.com.

 If you were getting my posts through Feedburner (http://feeds.feedburner.com/ADragonInSheepsClothing), you don’t have to change anything. The feed has been updated to my new address.

Wish I could automatically bounce visitors to my new web site… but for now, just click. :-)

Categories: Blogs, podcasts and rss, oh my! · Everything Else

A $2M grant will digitize brittle books

February 6, 2007 · Leave a Comment

 Yay! Music to a book lover’s ears:

Scholars and others interested in flipping through some of the Library of Congress‘ most fragile books will be able to tap the knowledge without damaging the artifacts.

Librarian of Congress James H. Billington said Wednesday the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation awarded a $2 million grant to the world’s largest library for a program to digitize thousands of works with a major focus on “brittle books.”

The project supplements other efforts at the Library of Congress along with private companies such as Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. Those massive book digitization projects, however, have typically shied away from materials in vulnerable conditions.

Article at USA TODAY >>

Categories: Books · Library

Testing video post

February 1, 2007 · 1 Comment

Embedding video didn’t work.

Categories: Internet · Video