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Monthly Archives February 2011

Custom Google Search Engine

I’ve always wanted a search engine that would only return results from the sites I use the most. This morning on Facebook, someone posted a link to a Google sub-site that allows you to do just that – Google Custom Search Engine. If this works, it should only search Wikipedia, YouTube, Reddit and MetaFilter – […]

Posted 09 February 2011 § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Too Many Tabs Tuesday

Just a link dump of some of the stuff I’ve got hanging around in my browser… “Evolving English” Exhibit at the British Library (via MF) “You’ll Upset Your Mother” – Atheists Are Expected to Remain Silent In A World Where Religion Is the Norm O Canada: Economic Lessons from Our Northern Neighbour (via somebody on […]

Posted 08 February 2011 § Library § Politics § Randomness § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Music Monday – “What so proudly we watched/At the twilight’s last gleaming”

The Superbowl is always one of the most watched TV events of the year so most people probably saw this live yesterday or have heard about it by now. So you probably also know that Christina Aguilera screwed up the words to the US national anthem before the game. What you might not know is […]

Posted 07 February 2011 § MusicMonday § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

The Beauty of the PVR

We have a PVR on our TV and one of the biggest benefits for me is the ability to all but avoid commercials – either by recording programs and watching them at a later time or even while watching a show in near real-time. This is especially useful for “event” television like oh, I don’t […]

Posted 06 February 2011 § PopCulture § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Saturday Snap – RSO at RPL

Believe it or not, RPL offers ~5000 programs a year.  This was one of the best (and most successful) I’ve been to, popping down during my lunch hour last week:

Posted 05 February 2011 § Library § PopCulture § SaturdaySnap § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – Yorkton to Regina in Five Minutes

A guy I went to elementary school with posted this time lapse video of the drive from Yorkton, SK to Regina, SK.  Normally about a two hour drive, this video condenses the trip to five minutes (and every time he passes a car will make you feel like you’re on a highway in Mexico for […]

Posted 04 February 2011 § FridayFunLink § MemoryLane § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

100 Best First Lines and Last Lines From Novels

The 100 Best First Lines The 100 Best Last Lines Part of Pace’s storytime routine is that when we come to the end of a picture book, I say “What do we say when we come to the end of a book?” and then he yells out “THE END!”  So that’s probably my favourite last […]

Posted 03 February 2011 § Family § Library § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Happy SILS-iversary!!!

Today is the one year anniversary of RPL going live as part of the SILS consortium.  Hard to believe and definitely deserving of a list (or even two!) Best Things About SILS 1. Patrons (and staff) can now easily get books from any public library system in the province.  Especially for smaller systems with fewer […]

Posted 02 February 2011 § Library § Technology § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Help Stop Usage Based Billing (UBB)

Metered Bandwidth isn’t about stopping bandwidth hogs, it’s about preserving old media business models Stephen Harper asks for review of CRTC Decision by March 1 But it’s not resolved yet – join a quarter million of your fellow Canadians by signing the petition More on UBB from Reddit. igning the petition

Posted 01 February 2011 § Politics § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Wow, This Is A Long, Detailed Wikipedia Article…

…especially when the answer is so obviously “Over“. 😉

Posted 01 February 2011 § Randomness ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: