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Monthly Archives April 2011

Friday Fun Link – What’s Your Price? A Dating Site With A Twi$t

I really wish I could remember where I first came across this site otherwise it’s going to look *really* suspicious. But anyhow, I did somehow manage to stumble across a new dating site called What’s Your Price which has a bit of a unique twist – men (who are called “The Generous” in the site’s […]

Posted 08 April 2011 § FridayFunLink ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged:

What Are the Main Factors In Being Elected?

With a federal election underway and a provincial election coming up later this year, I’ve been thinking about “what are the main factors involved in getting a candidate elected?” This is what I’ve come up with (ranked roughly in order of importance) but would love to hear things I missed (or mis-ranked). 1. Name Recognition […]

Posted 07 April 2011 § Politics ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

E-Books, Libraries and the Lessons of Blockbuster

I’m very interested in the impact of e-books on libraries and have been doing a lot of reading on the subject lately.  I came across this article about the unprecedented fall of Blockbuster (which is contrasted with the rise of NetFlix) and it makes me wonder – are libraries more like Blockbuster?  Or are they […]

Posted 06 April 2011 § Library § Technology § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

I’m not a huge curling fan (especially compared to some librarians that I know!)  But since the World Men’s Curling Championships are in Regina this week and because someone at work hooked me up with four tickets for Sunday night’s draw so I could take Shea as well as my parents, I’ve been following it […]

Posted 05 April 2011 § Library § Video § Work ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: , ,

Music Monday – “I’d always taught my sons/We were safe around police/But when they charged on horses/Well, I dragged us off the street/It made me so angry/They’d endanger children too/In silencing the voices of 1932”

We had singer-songwriter Maria Dunn as the endnote speaker for one of the conferences I organized when I worked for the Writers Guild of Alberta.  She gave an awesome presentation about her writing process mixed with a performance of songs from what was then her newest CD (she was in town a couple weeks ago […]

Posted 04 April 2011 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § Politics § Video § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Internet in Cuba

A few random thoughts on Internet (or lack thereof) during our recent week-long holiday in Cuba… I am happy to report that I didn’t have any seizures or meltdowns after a week without Internet access of any kind.  (In comparison, even when we went to Mexico in 2003, I ended up going to a nearby […]

Posted 03 April 2011 § Politics § Technology ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , ,

Saturday Snap – Winter’s Ending & Time For Spring Cleaning

Saw this in front of a house where I catch the bus…

Posted 02 April 2011 § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – NHL Player Rater

In honour of the Flames’ Jarome Iginla getting his 1000th career point tonight, here’s a really cool site that displays the names of two fairly equal NHL players and allows you to pick which one you think is best.  (If you don’t recognize one or both players, it helpfully puts their career stats side-by-side and […]

Posted 01 April 2011 § FridayFunLink § PopCulture § Randomness ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,