…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 […]
There were a lot of suitors in the mix for this inevitability but in the end, I think Google's the best fit. Will be interesting to see how this develops from here. I think part of the reason Big Media never went after YouTube was that it didn't have a lot of capital – why […]
I told my in-laws about this blog and now I know that my mother-in-law is reading on a regular basis. So I thought I'd do an entry dedicated to her and my father-in-law. They're part-owners of a herd of buffalo in Saskatchewan so I thought this riddle is fitting. The sentence listed in the title […]
Here is a list of Firefox extensions I have installed on my computer: DOM Inspector – inspect web page information FoxyTunes – allows you to control multimedia functions within your browser GooglePreview – shows screenshots along with Google searches MetaFilthy – tracks which threads you've read on MetaFilter ColourfulTabs – makes tabs more readable SearchEngineOrdering […]
The new online library student journal (creatively called “Library Student Journal”) has an article about how libraries currently serve babies. (Resists urge to make Jonathan Swift joke.) I guess one way to solve the problem of “baby” entries versus “library” entries on this blog is to combine the two topics!And what's my record for blog […]
The vast majority of people I talk to who have recently started blogs all seem to say the same thing: “I don't really like blogs but I decided to give it a shot.” This instinctive reaction against blogs is interesting – why is there a natural resistance to blogs? (Going way back to entry one […]
Even though it rained off and on, Shea and I had a great day at the Kitchener-Waterloo's edition of the Word on the Street Festival today. Having been a board member of the Calgary edition for three years, I was looking forward to seeing what one of the other host cities for this national festival […]
Scholarly Journal Submission UpdateJust finished submitting the revised version of “Useless as Tits on a Bull: User Fees in Alberta Public Libraries” to Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Research and Theory. As I said before, it's been an extremely educational process, I got some great feedback and even if they don't decide to publish it […]
