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Music Monday – “There are places I’ll remember/All my life, though some have changed/Some forever, not for better/Some have gone and some remain” (4000th Post Milestone!)

It’s pretty hard to believe but today marks the 4000th post this blog since I started it over a decade ago on February 25, 2006, a couple months after starting the Masters of Library Science program at the University of Western Ontario. I had always been into computers and technology from banging out programs in […]

¶ Posted 15 May 2017 § Internet § Library § LibrarySchool § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § Technology § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: history, ontario

First Snow of the Year – Hawksley Workman

We had one brief hit a few weeks ago that went away but otherwise, November 29 is a pretty good day for posting this traditional blog post to commemorate the first snow of the year (the first that looks like it’s going to stick around anyhow)…

¶ Posted 29 November 2016 § Family § Humour § Meme § MemoryLane § Pace § Saskatchewan § Shea § Video ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: weather

Blog Crashes Resolved?

I’m probably speaking too soon but after my blog has been crashing on a near daily basis for way too long, I finally got around to trying the obvious fix. Earlier this weekend, I disabled all my various plug-ins and have been slowly re-activating them one-by-one to see if I can figure out if there’s […]

¶ Posted 30 October 2016 § Technology ‡ Comments (0) °

Music Monday – “Yes, we’re going to a party-party/Yes, we’re going to a party-party”

I’ve had this blog for ten years and my actual birthday has fallen on a “Music Monday” only once in 2009 when I naturally posted…“Paranoid Android” by Radiohead? Maybe I did this because only a couple years earlier in 2009, I fudged things and posted “Birthday” by the Beatles on the Monday before my birthday […]

¶ Posted 18 July 2016 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: holiday

Hmm, Maybe I Should Do More Political Blogging?

My post about #elbowgate got shared out by a few well-connected people on a couple different social media sites and ended up getting, oh, about a zillion times more traffic to that one post than my blog posts usually get.

¶ Posted 05 June 2016 § Canada § News § Politics ‡ Comments (0) °

A Look at the Log Files…

I haven’t done a navel-gazing post for awhile so I thought it’d be interesting to list which of my blog posts have had the most views during this year along with the date that they were originally published… How To Make A Rye & Coke Press (Dec 2006) Myers-Briggs Results as Cultural Touchstones (Oct 2013) Ranking […]

¶ Posted 20 September 2015 § FridayFunLink § LibrarySchool § List § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § Randomness § SaturdaySnap § ThrowbackThursday § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – The Geocities-izer

This web page allows you to make any site look like you designed it in 1998 using GeoCities… (via Reddit)

¶ Posted 18 September 2015 § FridayFunLink § Humour § Internet § MemoryLane ‡ Comments (0) °

Two Months to Canadian Federal Election

The Federal Election was called nearly three weeks ago and I haven’t written about it nearly as much as I thought I would. I mean, if you’ve read this blog for more than a couple days, I think my politics are pretty clear. Beyond that, there are tons of others who are covering every aspect […]

¶ Posted 19 August 2015 § Canada § News § Politics § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, education, history

Friday Fun Link – Find Out Which Technologies A Web Site Is Using

BuiltWith.com is a cool site that will allow you to find out what technologies any web site is using. I thought it would just say “WordPress” for my site but turns out it identifies everything from the server software to the hosting company to various plug-ins. Here are the full results for headtale.com.