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Monthly Archives October 2008

A Celebrity Filled Day (Yes, In Regina)

Went over to the downtown mall for lunch today as I forgot my customary lunch o' leftovers.  It was packed in the food court so I ended up sharing a table with a guy who turned out to be the guitarist from a band who were a bit of a one-hit wonder in the early […]

Posted 31 October 2008 § Main Page § PopCulture § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: ,

"Barry's Infomercial"

In addition to going to my usual sources to read responses to the Barack Obama half-hour, less than a week to go “infomercial”, I went to a fairly popular right-wing blog called Little Green Footballs to see what kind of response the speech got there.  Just like my conversation with the library technician from the […]

Posted 30 October 2008 § Main Page § Politics § United States ‡ Comments (0) °

Saskatchewan SILS Project Gets Government Funding

After being skipped over in the most recent budget, Saskatchewan's public libraries are overjoyed that the Provincial Government announced yesterday that they will be putting $5 million towards the Single Integrated Library System project over the next few years.  SILS will create a single card system for the entire province, something that was previously not […]

Posted 29 October 2008 § Library § Main Page § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (2) °

Music Monday – "I was the one who let you know/I was just sorry ever after."

I attended an excellent Teen Literacy conference today, tomorrow's the wrap-up conference call for the Canadian Library HR Summit but instead of writing about either of those subjects, I think I'm going to introduce a new recurring feature that I've been thinking about adding to my blog for awhile.  Like the Friday Fun Links that […]

Posted 28 October 2008 § Main Page § MusicMonday § Video ‡ Comments (0) °

Some Thoughts on Networking in a Networked Age

I recently came across an article titled “Facebook in a Crowd” in the New York Times magazine.  It was written by Canadian writer, Hal Niedzviecki and details the fact that he has nearly 700 Facebook friends but, when he tried to use Facebook Events to plan a party in Toronto and invited every one on […]

Posted 26 October 2008 § Internet § Library § Main Page ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged:

Friday Fun Link – Judge A Book By Its Cover (Oct 24, 2008)

Try to guess a random book's Amazon star rating just by looking at its cover.  (via MetaFilter)

Posted 25 October 2008 § FridayFunLink § Main Page § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

"I Hate Hockey" Hockey Update

I’ve just finished week four of my return to beer league hockey after a seven year absence so I thought I’d give a completely useless update since hockey is consistently the most despised topic on this blog when I do my annual survey.  (Hmm, when’s that due again?)  Week One – Scrimmage– we only have […]

Posted 24 October 2008 § Main Page § Sports ‡ Comments (3) ° Tagged:

Our First Home Is For Sale

So I'm watching the Calgary Flames game earlier tonight and that inspires me to do something I haven't done in a long time – look at the MLS listings for our old neighbourhood in Calgary.  I'll admit that when we first left Calgary in 2004, I did this search on a WAY too regular basis.  […]

Posted 22 October 2008 § Canada § Internet § Main Page § Photo ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

A Trio of Obama Stories

When No One's Watching“Can I Be Your Date?”  Please!Not That It Matters But…(Okay, one more… “A History Teacher Sees The Future“)

Posted 22 October 2008 § Main Page § Politics § United States ‡ Comments (0) °

Small Steps

If you visit this blog in person (and why would you in the age of RSS?), you'll see that I've installed the Mac-daddy version of last.fm so you can once again track when I am listening to embarrassing music from my high school days.I admit that the learning curve on the Mac is a bit […]

Posted 20 October 2008 § Main Page § Technology ‡ Comments (6) °