Friday the 13th
Apr. 13th, 2007 08:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
altivoFirst some good news: FurRag.com has been updated to a new shiny look and is no longer Beta. All the same authors and stories are still there for your enjoyment, but framed in a new and shinier site.
Now the nuisances: Got to work to find almost immediately that something glitched in our public internet access control system. The usage tracker database didn't turn over last night, so people who had used up their maximum daily time allotment (generally an hour) on Thursday were not being allowed to log on. Naturally, those who use their maximum time every day are the ones most likely to be obnoxious and obstreperous about something like that. Turned out to be a bug introduced by the vendor when they installed an upgrade yesterday, but it took them until noon to correct it. I have to ask, though, where the notion come from that an hour of internet access on public equipment is somehow a god-given right? Yes, we put computers with internet access into the libraries (against my strong inclinations and recommendations) but it was to allow use of the internet for information gathering, not game playing, chat rooming, and looking at you-boob videos. And before you start screeching at me about "taxpayer money" let me point out that the computers and software in this particular library are paid for by a private foundation, using money from bequests and endowments, and NOT by taxpayer money at all. Your taxes bought all those stupid books by Tim LaHaye and the dumb kung fu movies, but not the computers. So if you aren't satisfied with the quality of internet access here, tough, kid. Go buy your own computer and pay for your own phone line or whatever. And don't start in on me about your taxes paying my salary either. I'll be happy to refund the ten cents that is your share of what I made last year. If you want my sympathy, give me a raise. Or better yet, some time off.
The snow and ice is gone from the roads now, so of course the idiots are back to their usual stuff. Like the jerk who tailgated me for five miles out of town tonight as I was going home, since I was only traveling at the legal speed limit and not ten mph over it. He waited to pass me until he was in a double-yellow striped no passing zone, with a semi coming toward us in the other lane. By that time he was approaching the flashing red light at Kishwaukee Valley Rd. anyway and still had to stop. Total jerk.
Now the nuisances: Got to work to find almost immediately that something glitched in our public internet access control system. The usage tracker database didn't turn over last night, so people who had used up their maximum daily time allotment (generally an hour) on Thursday were not being allowed to log on. Naturally, those who use their maximum time every day are the ones most likely to be obnoxious and obstreperous about something like that. Turned out to be a bug introduced by the vendor when they installed an upgrade yesterday, but it took them until noon to correct it. I have to ask, though, where the notion come from that an hour of internet access on public equipment is somehow a god-given right? Yes, we put computers with internet access into the libraries (against my strong inclinations and recommendations) but it was to allow use of the internet for information gathering, not game playing, chat rooming, and looking at you-boob videos. And before you start screeching at me about "taxpayer money" let me point out that the computers and software in this particular library are paid for by a private foundation, using money from bequests and endowments, and NOT by taxpayer money at all. Your taxes bought all those stupid books by Tim LaHaye and the dumb kung fu movies, but not the computers. So if you aren't satisfied with the quality of internet access here, tough, kid. Go buy your own computer and pay for your own phone line or whatever. And don't start in on me about your taxes paying my salary either. I'll be happy to refund the ten cents that is your share of what I made last year. If you want my sympathy, give me a raise. Or better yet, some time off.
The snow and ice is gone from the roads now, so of course the idiots are back to their usual stuff. Like the jerk who tailgated me for five miles out of town tonight as I was going home, since I was only traveling at the legal speed limit and not ten mph over it. He waited to pass me until he was in a double-yellow striped no passing zone, with a semi coming toward us in the other lane. By that time he was approaching the flashing red light at Kishwaukee Valley Rd. anyway and still had to stop. Total jerk.
