Technology – Page 24

Storing Languages Forever

August 25, 2008August 25, 2008 John Archive, Archiving, Comet 67P, Data, digital storage, European Space Agency, Language, LOCKS, Long Now Foundation, Microfiche, Microfilm, paper, Preservation, Rosetta Disk, Rosetta Stone

As a records manager by trade (and having worked in the government sector for a bit), I have had to learn a thing or two about preservation. An article concerning the use some special eye readable technologies to store thousands of pages in a durable media to last thousands caught my eye, and I found it to be fascinating project. The Long Now Foundation has undertaken a project to try to preserve language for 1,000- 10,000 years, and has come up with a cool way to do that. It’s called a Rosetta Disk.

Business Software Technology

Upgrading to Office 2007?

August 7, 2008 John 2007, Microsoft, Microsoft Office, Upgrades

I seem to be doing lots of upgrading lately. I’ve been having an issue for some time now with my Outlook crashing several times each day, and often taking multiple attempts to restart it. In some cases, it will even break the connection to the pst file, and I’ll have to restart the computer. I’ve tried everything without success, so I’m now considering an upgrade to Office 2007.

Software Technology

A Clean Upgrade to Deep Sand

August 7, 2008August 7, 2008 John Upgrades, Wordpress, Wordpress Plugins, WordPress Themes

If you visited Deep Sand earlier this week, you might have gotten a message saying we were temporarily unavailable. I was performing an upgrade to a new version of the software. Normally, that’s not a huge task, but this time I wanted to get as clean a database and code base as possible. Over the years, a lot of additional tables for plugins and files and folders and options settings have been left behind. I wanted to get that cleaned out.

Places Society Technology

WTF in North Carolina

July 10, 2008 John Department of Motor Vehicles, License Plate, North Carolina, WTF

For those who don’t know, “WTF” is the short hand today for “what the fuck.” A lot of people know that, but a lot don’t. And unless it’s in the context of an email of IM message, I’d think nothing of it. However, that’s not the case with every North Carolinian.

Election Featured Politics Technology Travel

A Rambling Blog

June 14, 2008 John Air Travel, Airport, airports, Amendment 2, Blogging, Blogs, Deep Sand, fl, florida, Plugins, Wordpress

I don’t get a ton of traffic on this site, and have always been disappointed with the lack of comments. I get a few, but I know I have opinionated friends, and would expect a little more from them. I suspect one of the reasons is that this blog is so far ranging in the topics I write about. I’ve read some good articles lately on blogging, and most say to narrow the focus of your blog. The people writing these articles do have very widely read blogs, so one must give them their props.