Category Archives: List

Who's Gonna Save Me? Ten Songs I Could Put On Repeat and Listen to Non-Stop

We all have those songs that are so catchy or that have great lyrics or that we connect with so strongly for other reasons that we could put them on repeat on our music players and just listen to them over and over (in the old days, this same effect was accomplished by taping the […]

Five Things That Had The Biggest Impact in the 2009 Sask NDP Leadership Race (And Five That Didn't)

I’ll still thinking about a post with my thoughts on some of the things the Meili campaign could’ve done differently to perhaps put themselves over the top.  But until that comes clearer, I thought I’d do a post looking at things in the bigger picture.  I never get a good response when I call for […]

Ten Reasons I'm Supporting Ryan Meili – #2 – He Dreams Big

I’ve mentioned in passing one of my first experiences when I chose to volunteer with Ryan’s campaign.  I went to a planning meeting for his volunteers a few months ago.  When it was time to ask questions, I had a pretty important one.“What’s Ryan’s big idea?  What’s his Medicare?”Dion Tchorzewski looked at me and said, […]

Scroll Down for A Pic of Some Dork at the Emerging Technology Interest Group Pre-Conference

My session this morning went okay but for the second time in less than a month, I was disappointed that I didn’t “nail it” the way I wanted to.  In library school, I used to regularly do presentations that kicked ass (he says humbly).  One got a comment from a student who won Highest Academic […]

Five Things I Learned at Image Cable Systems

I’m doing a series of posts on what I learned from the various jobs I’ve held in my life.  First up was a list of the five things I learned during my time at my hometown gas station when I was in high school.  Now, having signed up to do some volunteer phone calling for […]

Some Reasons… (Happy 65th Birthday, Dad!)

I’ve been on a real kick of reading anything to do with father and son relationships since Pace was born – from sentimental stuff like Tim Russert’s “Wisdom of Our Fathers: Lessons and Letters from Daughters and Sons” (which collects a bunch of responses his bestseller about his own dad, “Big Russ and Me” received) […]

The Facebook Generation vs. The Fortune 500

Rarely do I read an article where I just keep going “yes, yes, yes!” (well, not in a mainstream publication anyhow! ) But that was my reaction after reading “The Facebook Generation vs. The Fortune 500”, a Wall Street Journal article which outlines the 12 differences between the Facebook generation (aka Generation Y aka  Millennials […]

Correction: Dwain Lingenfelter's Google Mash-up Map Isn't Misleading

Loyal reader, Kent posted a comment in response to my last post about Dwain Lingenfelter’s Google Map mash-up to tell me that I was wrong – the map does work and every push pin does have information about an event, you just have to click on the right *spot* on the push pin. I’m big […]

Some Final Thoughts About FIMS From A Current Student

Warren L. from Libre-arian has a post summing up his experiences at FIMS (including a shout-out to yours truly.)  Not sure if I mentioned before but while I was at FIMS, someone told me that as soon as you’re done the program (really, as soon as you hand in your last assignment because, really, if […]

The Sites I Use for Basic Research

Our recent trip to Vegas made me think that I should do an entry where I list all of the sites I tend to visit (roughly in order) when you want to find out everything you can about any topic (ie. the “stay up until 4am the night before you leave” kinda topics).* Google* Wikipedia […]