Several of you have asked about posting your own entries on the blog as opposed to commenting on old posts. I have begun extending authorship to the rest of the staff, let me know if you are interested.
For future reference, the 2 player mode does not work on our computers. Dan looked for a patch online to fix it, but none exists. This is another example of why sharing just isn't worth it.
The psychedelic Little Tikes Computer that has been displaying the "aura" around the mouse has been diagnosed with a broken video card. This will probably be fatal, since the video card it used predates the written word. Hopefully our replacements will arrive in a timely fashion.
The System is having some sort of difficulties. As a result, Suffolk Web and the OPACS are down. You should still be able to search the catalog at the Reference Desk.
Ten movies streaming across that, that Internet, and what happens to your own personal Internet? I just the other day got... an Internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday, I got it yesterday. Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the Internet commercially.
They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the Internet. And again, the Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes. And if you don't understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.
~Senator Ted Stevens
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.