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Meshell, who recently posted a great article called “Huckleberry Who?” on her blog that ties in nicely to my posts on the question of “Is there a Universal book?“, forwarded me the call for Spirit of Librarianship nomination for this term. I try to do a good job remembering to cite where I get my […]
The woman who teaches the course, Sally Elliott, gets raves from everybody we talk to so I'm pretty excited. Plus I'll find out if reading “The Poo Bomb” is sufficient preparation for having a child.
I've put a bookmarking widget up on the top left of this site that will allow you to submit my site (and any individual page or range of pages – ie. all pages within a category or a keyword) to any of thirty or so social bookmarking sites. This includes all the major services – […]
Congrats to Amanda Etches-Johnson who was recently named one of Library Journal's 2007 Movers & Shakers. Amanda taught the “Social Software” course at FIMS in Fall 2006 and everything I heard about this class sounded like it was amazing. I don't know many of the names on the list of past winners but wonder if […]
Your IQ = 130.Here are my scores. Language 11/12Memory 5/6Logic 12/12Visual Memory 5/6Math 10/12Perception 9/12Some random thoughts (may contain spoilers so why not do the quiz then come back to finish reading if you haven't already?)…CBC Television : Test the Nation – I know it's just for fun but any IQ test that asks me […]
I know that everybody who reads this blog doesn't necessarily read all of the same blogs that I do. So every once in awhile, I like to highlight some of the great entries I've found elsewhere. For example, Meshell had a great post on what exactly a blog is, why people do it and a […]
(This is just a random picture I grabbed off Flickr. Not a photo of the DVD collection of anyone I know.) Something I've noticed more frequently when visiting friends and family (and even on occasion when I get access to strangers' homes – ie. going to check out used baby items or whatever) is that […]
It's funny – you do a post you think will get lots of responses and then, ..not really. But then you do a bit of a throwaway post albeit on a fairly interesting hypothetical question and you get tons of thoughtful, passionate responses. So inspired by Cenobyte who said she was going to pose that […]
