BusinessWeek has done an analysis to determine the relatively abstract notion of which countries are the happiest.As you go through the blurbs, it's revealing that one of my own personal “when I am king” theories is highly represented as a criterion for a happy society – free post-secondary education. (Click through the arrows on the […]
Download Squad ranks them as follows: 1. Acrobat Reader2. iTunes3. RealPlayer4. Internet Explorer 5. Microsoft OutlookYet how many libraries rely on two or three of these programs, both for their PAC's and for their staff computers?
Lists of Bests is a rather unique site that allows you to not only see various “Best of” lists but also to track your progress working through the lists and compare your progress with others. The usual categories (books, music, movies) are here but there are some unique ones too (travel, people, things to do […]
LISNews presents their annual list of ten library-related stories that shaped 2007. Closer to home, our top story of the day is that Shea won the AM1190 “Turkey Trotter” today by stalking the radio station's van as she drove home from a doctor's appointment. It parked in its “secret location” (one block from our house) […]
Now that I've been blogging for a year (actually heading towards two years I think), I've started to think about some posts that may become recurring features. For example, last year around this time, I posted a link to a site that collects all the end of year “best of” lists in movies, music, books […]
I asked the following question on Ask MetaFilter and got a lot of song suggestions I wouldn't otherwise have known about. “From now on, we'll have to muddle through somehow/So have yourself a Merry Little Christmas now.” | Ask MetaFilter There are other similar questions that can be found with some quick Googling – for […]
Following up nicely on yesterday's post about Yahoo Answers! (with its passing compliment of Ask MetaFilter), I see today that a MetaFilter user has taken the time to compile and categorize a master list of book-related questions from Ask MetaFilter in Wiki format. Called ReadMe, I especially like that the first question listed on the […]
This list is focused mostly on the Internet and technology as things that librarians are better at (rather than librarians successfully utilizing these tools beyond what normal users might do – he says, typing on a blog) but it’s still a lot of food for thought. To be honest, I think it wouldn’t be hard to make a […]
I was asked to teach a four week “Intro To Computers” course for the month of November at the Weyburn Public Library, one of two city branches in our region, while they are temporarily short-staffed. Last week was my final class so I thought I'd put up the outlines and some thoughts in case that's […]
Pace has a new cousin! Almost six months to the day after he was born, Pace's cousin, Dennon Robert Thompson arrived in very similar circumstances – breech position requiring an unplanned c-section. It was a weird sense of deja vu for me all day – finding my way to the labour and delivery unit, sitting […]
