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Hi. I may have actually gotten SmartFilter to remove my journal page from their control list. They had it listed, oddly, as “chat”. I sent them a note and they say it will be off the control list tomorrow. Now I’ll start the countdown to see how long it takes me to get N2H2 to not classifiy it as “pornography”. If you have websites that you would like seen in, say, the libraries and schools of Georgia, you may want to check and see if they’re blocked.

Hi. I have the day off today which means that I can stay home, mess with cars, watch it snow and not have to shake my fist at the weather. I have been working on the library web site for the past month and it’s almost ready to go live. If anyone would like to take a peek at it and give me some feedback, I’d appreciate it. My goals are to have the site use all CSS for layout, be accessible to people with low vision or who use screen-readers, be standards compliant [I am still doing some retrofitting to make this work, like closing my [li] tags] and have stuff be easy to find. On the back end, I’ll be running Movable Type on Lishost so it will have a series of templates and stylesheets that can be ignored as content is updated. Things I could not control includes the inclusion of images, the boxy logo and most of the content, which came with it. Here’s the old site and the new site. My goal is to improve on the old site which was not terribly bad to begin with, but hard to update and maintain, and to make it one of the best public library web sites in the state of Vermont.

Hi. Let me know if the category links to the left are giving erratic results. On to the inbox….

Hi. I saw my shadow so there’s ten more weeks of Winter. It is Vermont after all. Thanks to some nudging and helpful email from Hilary, I have categories up and running after a fashion. RSS readers you’ll have to come to the site to see what I mean.

Hi. One of the things I don’t like about aggregated news is its tendency to sort of swim rootless in space and time. I’m adding a date in the title field of my first post of the day. This weekend I will wrestle with getting MT categories to be a way to browse posts on my site. Also, Greg and I went out to a nice dinner at AJ’s steakhouse in White River Junction last night. AJ’s is a cool 35 minute drive from our house and as such it is the closest steakhouse to where we live. I got a NY strip sirloin and Greg got a tuna steak. We both had dessert which is, of course, crazily profligate in our law-student and half-time librarian lives. Thanks to any and all who clicked through the Powell’s link and bought stuff from that nice independent union shop in Portland.