Assignment 9 aka my portfolio of LIS 2600

Well for better or worse it is done.

http://www.pitt.edu/~cee14/

I'm not sure how I feel about it. It is much harder to get things where you want them to go/look and eventually I gave up so it is what it is. I also ran into a snag where I was just about to add my last 3 files to my account when I started getting an error message. It turns out I had used up all my space so a quick call to the Technology Help Desk and voila I got more space.

Off to wipe the sweat from my brow.

Priavacy and online books

As if we don't have enough to worry about in terms of libraries - Seattle Public closing for several days b/c of budget cuts, the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh having to beg for funding, Philly closing many branches of the Free Library- Google is stalling on privacy policies for it's users.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/23/advocates-ask-google-for-privacy-guarantees-in-online-library/


I would like some good news please.

The trouble with XO.

I just finished reading One Laptop Per Child: Vision vs. Reality by Kenneth L. Kraemer, Jason Dedrick, and Prakul Sharma. It was interesting to me for two reasons. 1) A lot of the issues with the OLPC program that they discussed were the same points that I brought up a year and a half ago when we discussed the program in my Resources for Young Adults class. Things like access, support and training. 2) I have lived in several developing nations and it often seems that the great ideas of developed nations to 'bring the developing world into the 21st century' tend to forget that you can't really skip steps in terms of infrastructure. If there is little or no access to electricity it doesn't matter how efficient your laptop is. If you can't read it is very hard - if not impossible to utilize the internet. I am very interested to see where this all goes.

Feeling Stupid, yet Successful.

So I finally managed to get my Pitt website to appear. Don't you just love when you have tried (what you feel is everything) only to be told two small things and suddenly everything works? That is what happened today. Apparently I needed to change the page I had named as homepage to index and then I needed to upload each file individually rather than the whole folder and bada-bing bada-boom I was in business. So here is my webpage http://www.pitt.edu/~cee14 , finally!

CSS and Dreamweaver

So far using CSS and Dreamweaver has gone well. I bought the Adobe Suite which includes Dreamwaver, PhotoShop, Acrobat, etc. from Pitt for a price unheard of anywhere else. If you can spare the $250.00 for over a $1000 worth of software you should do it.

So far the CSS and link additions have seemed really simple and straight forward but if I can't manage to get the Pitt hosted web page to work I will no doubt resort to once again pulling out my hair.

Still singing

I just cannot get the Pitt web page to work for me. I read all these things and look at the tutorials and whenever I try to open the page it says the files are not found. I used Google Sites for the assignment but I really wanted to use the Pitt site and it is just irksome to still be unable to figure it out. I am feeling really let down by technology at the moment. Any suggestions?

Singing the (X)HTML blues

After viewing the PowerPoint on HTML and web pages I feel even more confused than I already had been feeling. I don't know if there is some mental disconnect for me or what but almost none of it made sense and I am really feeling stupid right now. My only consolation is that after reading many of my classmates' posts I feel like I am not alone in this.