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Monthly Archives May 2007

We Interrupt This Blog For A Farm Report

We interrupt our regular tech/library/baby-related news for an agricultural report.  Heard on the news tonight that it is the 100th Anniversary of Marquis Wheat, an early-maturing hybrid that is pretty much the entire reason that Saskatchewan is known as the bread basket of Canada.  They're doing a bunch of special celebrations at the Experimental Farm […]

Posted 10 May 2007 § Main Page § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (2) °

Facebook Embarrassments

I was talking to a friend who refuses to join Facebook.  They said that part of the reason they didn't want to join was how competitive it seemed: “I have 46 friends.”  “I have 87 friends.”  “I have 99 friends.”  And what's the first line of my Feliciter article about Facebook?  “I have exactly 159 […]

Posted 09 May 2007 § Baby § Humour § Internet § Main Page ‡ Comments (4) °

Facebook's Dark Side (And Some Thoughts Why I Blog)

I'd seen this before but a friend sending it to me last week inspired me to get it up on the blog.  It's a Flash video making some conspiracy theorist claims about Facebook – the people who run it having CIA ties, the abuse of its data-mining abilities and so on.I'm not sure what to […]

Posted 06 May 2007 § Blog § Censorship § Internet § Main Page § Video ‡ Comments (10) ° Tagged:

Friday Fun Link – Tag Clouds for US Presidential Debates (May 4, 2007)

Oh yeah, and it's Friday so time for the weekly FFL (I almost forgot!) Tag-clouds for the first debates of the Democratic and Republican primaries. (via MetaFilter)

Posted 04 May 2007 § FridayFunLink § Main Page § Politics ‡ Comments (0) °

A Bit of Downtime

We've got a bit of a break before the evening events at SLA so me and a couple of my co-workers came back to our suite to relax.  It's been a great day – seeing lots of people I know from my former life (SPG has a booth here staffed by a former colleague from […]

Posted 04 May 2007 § Library § Main Page ‡ Comments (2) °

Off to Saskatoon…

…for the Saskatchewan Library Association conference so posts may be few and far between until Saturday evening.  Have a good weekend! 

Posted 03 May 2007 § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

The Revolution Will Not Be Dugg Down

This is one of the craziest things I've ever seen online.  Digg, the community web site where users can upload stories and then other users vote them up or down with the most popular stories forming the highly trafficked home page, had a major revolt yesterday.It began when an article that contained the encryption key […]

Posted 02 May 2007 § Censorship § Internet § Main Page ‡ Comments (4) °

Eye-Opening!

(Ottawa, April 24, 2007) – The Canadian Library Association (CLA) is pleased to announce Melissa Poremba as winner of the Canadian Library Association’s 24th Student Article Contest for “Resources You can Count on @ Your Library”. Melissa is a distance education student in the Library and Information Technician Program at Mohawk College. The idea for […]

Posted 02 May 2007 § Library § LibrarySchool § Main Page ‡ Comments (10) ° Tagged:

"Stare out at that prairie sky, There was nothing else to do" – Fred Eaglesmith

Posted 01 May 2007 § Main Page § Photo § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (4) °