Monthly Archives February 2007

My Celebrity Matches

I'd seen this Celebrity Face Match site before but a recent Facebook post made me realise it now had all kinds of fun new options to create collages and share your results. (You can click on any collage on this page to try it yourself – and make sure you post your results to your […]

Ding Dong – The Streak Is Dead!

Well, after nearly six months straight of daily posts (a quick run through the sidebar calendar shows Aug 30/06 was the last day I missed!), the streak ended yesterday.  (There was also a missing date on December 24 but I know I posted that day – not sure why it doesn't show up on the […]

Saskatchewan's New Family Day – I Called It! (Almost)

Now, far be it for me to take all the credit for Saskatchewan's first-ever Family Day.  But I would like to point out that I made a very accurate prediction, way back in July 2006 about a holiday that was announced in late October of that same year (er, if you ignore the part where […]

Stalking = Playful?!?

It's a loooong story but in our genealogy class, there was a bit of a revolt and a group of students ended up going to the prof to request our final assignment be changed from something that, as assigned, was going to be very redundant and not give us much in the way of  library-centered […]

Happy Birthday Shea (Try Not To Party Too Hearty Tonight – You're Getting Old!)

(This is an older photo of Shea as I was trying to capture the “party” aspect of the post title more than the “getting old. aspect.)  With that said, if you want to see some pics of how “the belly” is coming along, she has a Flickr account with more current photos!  Sorry for any […]

10 Reasons You Should Read at the Freedom To Read Week event on Monday

Talking to Michelle Lake on IM and it sounds like she's got a good line-up for the Freedom to Read Week event on Monday although there's still room for more readers to sign up, even now.  So if you're interested in reading, why not drop her a line!  Here's the scoop on the event:What: Freedom […]

Friday Fun Link – March of the Librarians (Feb 16, 2007)

I said last week that I love getting something in my in-box on Friday morning that I can turn around and use as a Friday Fun Link later that same day. (In fact, feel free to e-mail me if you know a site that is funny, unique or thought-provoking. I can’t guarantee I’ll use it […]

Ask Metafilter – Some Thoughts

I recently exchanged a couple e-mails with an MLIS student who was thinking of doing a paper on Yahoo! Answers having seen one of their executives do a presentation at OLA SuperConference.  I suggested that she should focus on Ask Metafilter which is arguably a lot more successful at what it does than Yahoo Answers.  […]

505 Is Gone

Heard via the grapevine that “505 – Technology” is officially gone as a required course at FIMS.  Here's a bit of background on how this came about…  (Disclaimer: all of the following is from my admittedly-faulty memory of stuff that happened months ago when I was at my busiest point in my final semester.  For […]

The Ten Largest Databases in the World

Library of Congress comes in at #10 on a list of the ten largest databases.  It might be a surprise who is listed as #1 but at the same time, you should take this list with a grain of salt as a lot of these numbers are speculative guesses. (via DiggieFilter which has some discussion […]