Year: 2009

My Day As Facebook Updates

I rarely do Facebook updates so here's a glimpse of how today would be if I did them all the time.  7:11am – Jason is awake before everyone

Radiohead – Inexpensive Charity Single and a Free Song Too

Radiohead is no stranger to innovative music practices.  Recently, they've done a couple more…– a one-off charity single, “Harry Patch (In Memory Of), to support the British Legion,

Friday Fun Link – Guess The Famous Novels From Their Opening Lines (August 21, 2009)

I got 12/16 and once I saw the four I missed, realised I probably should've got 16/16.  If you want a hint, mouseover the following text…the site fills

Kidlandia: Who's More Excited – Daddy or Pace?

Usually when I read TechCrunch, I find stuff that gets me excited about some new web site or technology.  And don't get me wrong – the make-your-own-Medieval map

"I was in front of him, what happened with my phone?"

Instead of doing literal translations (word X in English is word Y in some other language), I read somewhere that Google Translations uses its massive processing power to

Request for Participation: MLIS Alumni Survey (WILIS 2)

Man, feels like old times doing a FIMS-related post.  When was the last time I used the “LibrarySchool” tag anyhow?  The following e-mail was sent out to recent

Music monday – "You never need to doubt it/I'll make you so sure about it"

No less an expert than Paul McCartney is on record as saying that “God Only Knows” is the best love song ever written.  Below is the vocals-only track

What The F**k Is Social Media?

Below are a couple great presentations I came across via the Slideshare newsletter.  The first one is from a year ago and does a bang-up job of explaining

Crop Checkin'

On the long weekend, we made a loop hitting Fort Qu'Appelle (a resort community an hour outside Regina), Katepwa Beach, our family cottage on the other side of

Friday Fun Link – BookSeer (August 14, 2009)

Some of the folks on MetaFilter are reporting bugs but after a few trials (admittedly with fairly well-known and recent books), I had no problems with BookSeer.  It's

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