podland tricks

Hi Everyone, Two new things I recently discovered in Podland.

1. Internet Explorer is having problems with attachments. Today a student worked on a word document in the pods and emailed a copy of the article to himself. He returned to work on this document and discover that IE had compressed(created a zip file) his file and that it could not be opened. I had him open his email in Mozilla and the file open without issue.

2. Some websites are not working with Internet Explorer 8. Blackboard is(was) one of these problem databases. There is also a marketing course website that has issues with IE 8. Sorry, but I can’t remember the course. To get around this, use the compatibility view button. I have attached a file that shows how this button looks.

Joshua Garris

Headphones and Conductor’s Institute

There’s a Conductor’s Institute (musical, not train) on campus through most of June. They live on campus and have a temporary housing card but no other id. Nice guy asked to use headphones but Circ couldn’t check any out to him. Thankfully Josh was around for the building count and he reminded me we have a pair in the drawer below the name tags. (The guy had a clean head so I let him borrow them.)