The Top 10 list is a ubiqutious part of our culture these days and using the power of folksonomy, you can easily find some interesting web sites. This is a list of sites that have been bookmarked using the tags “best”, “top10” and “toread” on Delicious, a social bookmarking web site. Fairly tech-heavy but there […]
Not very often but sometimes, I really don't like libraries.I was over at the University today for a group meeting and afterwards, went to the Business Library because the catalogue showed that they (as well as our main library Weldon, the Taylor library and a few others in the system had a copy of a […]
With apologies to Eminem, one of my favourite things, both at school or in the workplace, is when I lose myself in a project and all of a sudden, two or four or eight hours have passed. Last time I looked at the clock, it was 3am and I was thinking that I should probably […]
Having done a lot of web site design over the years, I thought of doing a list like this in first semester right before our 505 web site assignment was due. I never got around to it. But now, having spent quite a bit of time in the last few weeks helping fellow students who […]
Our genealogy class got out early today so that people could either work on assignments, do research or come down to LPL to vist the “London Room”, the library's local history room. I'd seen the room briefly during our LPL tour in Public Libraries class but had a couple hours to kill before I had […]
Is there anything better than getting your e-mail in-box under control? This program is pretty e-mail heavy at the best of times but this semester and especially this week has been crazy. I chip away and get my in-box under 100 messages and 25 more come in. I literally received 40 messages today on one […]
Shea and I whipped into Toronto today to attend the Baby and Toddler Show this afternoon. A bit disappointing in terms of the number of exhibitors but this is probably a case of us being really early in the pregnancy mixed with the fact that they weren't giving out free books like the last time […]
…I might as well sit here and talk to myself until I get this bandwidth issue resolved or the end of the month comes and it gets reset. Since I can still manipulate the layout of the site, I think people should be able to find me so that's good. I put up a “Read […]
Alright, continuing my attempts to learn more about the top Internet technologies and how they work, not just as a visitor but as an active user, I've decided to follow-up my “add a page to Wikipedia” experiment by submitting a post I did on “Five Things Google Could Learn From Wikipedia (and Five Things Wikipedia […]
Came across The Birthday Calculator which tells you your date of conception, how many days, weeks, months and years old you are (you probably know that one) on Ian's blog via an embedded Digg link that displayed on his site because he was using Feed2JavaScript, a neat little utility that allows you to embed RSS […]
