Friday Updates on a Quiet Week

I’ll start today’s “Friday Updates” with a couple quick notes on the server. Index.pl takes forever to load. (By this I mean if you’re logged in and go to the LISNews home page, you can expect a 10 second wait.) Super Sysadmin Shane is working on that issue, but it’s turning out to be a tricky problem. Doubling the RAM in the server didn’t help, nor did killing tags, or the ads. There’s a few other slashsites on the same server, and LISNews is the only problem child. In other “bug” news, I did figure out why some stories flop over to the extreme left side of the screen (didn’t fix it yet) but I still can’t chase down that bug in the submission form.

In addition to the tagging & titles changes from earlier in the month, I added 2 new features that might interest you. If you go to Your Account Page you should see a box for your “Flickr ID”. If you put your Flickr username in there a random picture from that account will appear on your journal and elsewhere when you’re logged in. You can now also use the Slashcode Bookmarks system on LISNews. Here’s the LISNews Bookmarklet (never mind, I need to post that differently).

So enough about the code, below is a roundup of all the interesting stuff you might have missed this week.

I’ll start today’s “Friday Updates” with a couple quick notes on the server. Index.pl takes forever to load. (By this I mean if you’re logged in and go to the LISNews home page, you can expect a 10 second wait.) Super Sysadmin Shane is working on that issue, but it’s turning out to be a tricky problem. Doubling the RAM in the server didn’t help, nor did killing tags, or the ads. There’s a few other slashsites on the same server, and LISNews is the only problem child. In other “bug” news, I did figure out why some stories flop over to the extreme left side of the screen (didn’t fix it yet) but I still can’t chase down that bug in the submission form.

In addition to the tagging & titles changes from earlier in the month, I added 2 new features that might interest you. If you go to Your Account Page you should see a box for your “Flickr ID”. If you put your Flickr username in there a random picture from that account will appear on your journal and elsewhere when you’re logged in. You can now also use the Slashcode Bookmarks system on LISNews. Here’s the LISNews Bookmarklet (never mind, I need to post that differently).

So enough about the code, below is a roundup of all the interesting stuff you might have missed this week.Overall there weren’t many comments on the stories this week. A link to Libraryprivacy.org resulted in the usual political shouting match, but other than that, the only other stories to have any decent conversation were As library cuts costs, it raises CEO’s pay and Truant Kids In The Library.

I cleaned out all my “Bloglines-Saves” which resulted in several links to other blogs. This isn’t something I normally do, but there’s so many people writing very interesting things out there I figured it was time to start posting some links into the blogoshpere. I especially liked Biran Surrat’s White Paper on academic libraries and the CIL Sketches.

While the stories were quiet, this week’s Poll was lively. “What time is 3 pm?” This is probably one of the best poll discussions we’ve ever had.

Pleanty of interesting posts on the journals this week, some sad, some funny, some educational. Daniel left a note telling us of the sad news of his mother’s passing. We all wish him and his family well. Rochelle Formally Announced her big job offer in WI. I hope this won’t cut into her LISNews time! GregS* posted a funny little *Doh* from work. I continued to be impressed by The Search Engines Guy, he’s pointed to some interesting things in his journal. I also spotted his name on the front page of Digg this week.

I also found my new favorite quote from a censor “I am not trying to censor this book from the United States of America. They can go right down to Borders and buy it if they want…” This from the story on “The Handmaid’s Tale” being challenged down in TX.

Last, but not least, don’t forget to go Eat A Book Tomorrow.