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YES. THE PAGE IS SET TO noindex BECAUSE I DO NOT WANT IT INDEXED.

THERE IS A SIMPLE SOLUTION TO THIS PROBLEM AND IT IS NOT ON MY END.

I work in a renovated part of the building, with a window behind me looking out into trees (it took eleven years here to get a window that didn't look out onto a dumpster or the interior of the building, but hey...). The now-retired woman whose office had these windows before the renovation had said, I am told, that she was tired of looking out and seeing hawks eating squirrels in the tree.

I have spent SEVEN YEARS (six minus the lockdown year) looking out the window hoping for a hawk. Today my eyes started hurting and I realized I needed to focus on something far away, so stood up and turned around. At that exact moment a hawk swooped into the tree in front of me.

( cut for pics. no dead squirrels, but one live angry one. )

myrialux picked me up for lunch today, and dropped me off at the loading dock, where I usually go in. Today I was not the only creature in the inside dock...



A small finch (female house finch, I think) had gotten trapped there. After attempting to call two different people, neither of whom were at their desks, I realized the answer was simple: the controls for the big garage door of the dock (there's a small, human-sized door we go in and out of) were right there. So I opened the door, then spent some time trying to find the bird, who'd hidden around the side of the big walk-in refrigerator unit that Dining Services installed in the dock to store drinks for the library Bistro.

The bird had found the window, and was trying desperately to exit through it, and I blocked its path away from the window (I expect), but I poked around, found a garbage bag full of party decorations, and used a fake branch with autumn leaves on it to gently harry the bird away from the window. It flew around the refrigerator unit and vanished, presumably out the open door.

I'm just glad it didn't get into the ceiling, as there were several missing tiles.

Since it's hitting local, if not national news: this morning there was an incident at the university where we work, in which two shuttle bus drivers got in an argument and one shot at the other (missing), then leaped into his shuttle and angrily drove off, presumably very slowly, as he hit the other driver but caused no injury (from the last report I read). (edit: He's now been arrested.)

The campus sent out an alert that there was an armed suspect on campus when he first fled, but we hadn't left yet and stayed home until we got the all-clear.

( cut for photo )

Very tiny, very scared wee beastie at the library today. I heard him squalling outside my window (CLOSED and TWO FLOORS UP!), and a coworker who does kitten fostering and campus trap-neuter-release went outside and caught him. He's on his way to the vet now.

I discovered yesterday that the campus Google appliance had gone bananas on our FAQ service, hitting it up for three specific search terms every five minutes or so.

Since May. Since 11:08 AM on May 13th, to be precise.

I'd discovered that I'd done searches on those three terms at the time the Google bot started its journey into darkness, which presumably triggered it, but I'd also done a number of searches on other terms at the same time because I was updating all the FAQs associated with them. No idea why the bot chose to obsess over "copyright," "texshare," and "new material alerts." The database that holds the logs for these queries is now overflowing with approximately 30K hits per month since May, rendering the stats tools in the service unusable.

I talked with campus IT and while the ultimate cause of why it picked those three terms is unknown, it was having problems with the searches not completing, so it was repeating them and repeating them. After discussion, I picked the option of not having the campus search index the FAQs to stop the madness. Most of our users use regular Google to search for stuff related to the campus and the library tbh, and I've got a custom Google search on the site, not the campus search, so it'll affect us not at all, and I've got a support ticket into the service asking them to delete all the records that come from that specific IP address.

So, um, yay technology?

Can you help me? If you have IE, could you go to this page and let me know if a list of links to questions/answers shows up under the heading "Library Access FAQs"? If they do NOT show up, please let me know your OS, and IE version?

It should look something like this: ( Read more... )Reason why I"m asking: I have a report that when the dean was giving a presentation, she pulled up this page (on IE) and the questions didn't show up. I'm trying to track down if it was the version of IE or what.

aaaargh

The website I'm working on is due to go live TOMORROW. Naturally I find bug in the code that displays the most-used part of the site (databases) yesterday afternoon. And this morning I confirm that it's appeared on the site for months now, and for some reason I just didn't hit the correct combination of factors to display it.

And looking at my code I'm all WHY DID YOU DO IT THIS WAY THIS IS CRAP so I get to spend today rewriting THIS ENTIRE SECTION OF THE SITE so I can actually take the thing live tomorrow.

AARGH.

Toby walked over for lunch today, and afterwards I let him out the handicapped entrance. It's got a foyer, where we stopped for a short time as I was pointing out the flood damage that occurred before they redid the damage, then he gave me a hug and a kiss before I opened the outer door.

And as he walked by the intercom, we heard a chorus of "AAAWWWWWW!!" coming from it. Methinks the lab managers and student workers who control the door have nothing better to do today.XD

The library is under construction and deconstruction right now, and there are LOUD JACKHAMMERS and other machinery happening near my office, enough so that I spent part of the afternoon in earplugs.

And as I was leaving for the day, I discovered that the vibrations are LITERALLY shaking the books off the shelves!

( Cut for PROOF )