Amy Jo Ehman and her husband recently spent a whole year eating nothing but Saskatchewan-produced foods. Her year-long experiment is over but she's continued to buy (mostly) from local suppliers. She recently posted a list of where she gets her food from these days.
If you're a regular reader of this blog, you know that I've been on the road for the past two months doing computer and Internet training at our various branches around SE Saskatchewan (for anyone who doesn't know about our territory, if you draw a straight line from Regina east to the Manitoba border and […]
Did you know that March 4 is apparently National Grammar Day? Neither did I which is why this post is coming on March 9.In honour of this obscure but auspicious occasion, here's a list of the Top Ten Grammar Myths.10. A run-on sentence is a really long sentence. 9. You shouldn't start a sentence with […]
You know it's a hard core list when the Library of Congress only ranks an “honourable mention”. Ranking the World's Best Digital Libraries
TechCrunch recently had a story about a new study which found that lower-income people tend to prefer Yahoo! and higher-income people prefer Google. (Shea's reading over my shoulder and goes “That's funny – I didn't know anyone preferred Yahoo!”)Anyhow, that made me think about the “Everything You Wanted To Know About the Internet (But Were […]
When I was in undergrad, I was a regular at the Bushwakker Brew Pub for Robbie Burns Night each January. Every year, they had a draw to go with the celebrations and on one particularly memorable occasion, I happened to win a free keg. Since the next major holiday after Robbie Burns Night (barring Groundhog […]
I was going to link to a list of the symptoms of severe food poisoning and leave off at that. But after sleeping sixteen hours out of the last twenty-four (I won't get too graphic about how I spent the other eight hours but you can imagine… …I'm feeling a bit better so I decided […]
Cue the “anal retentive librarian” stereotypes… I’ve kept a list of every book I’ve read since 1996. I was recently thinking about who my favourite authors are and instead of just picking the first names that came to mind, I thought it would be interesting to sort that list by author then record everybody whose […]
Just finished trying to help someone update their profile on VampireFreaks.com (half successfully, half not – I figured out how to add a background image rather than a solid colour and to add an embedded music player as well. But I couldn't figure out how to place the music player where the person wanted it on […]
The UK's Daily Telegraph comes in with a list of 100 books every child should read broken into three categories – early years, middle years and early teens.
