The Calgary Flames start their season tonight. Pace is wearing an orange off-red outfit in this picture but I'm sure his loyalties are clear. My predictions for the final this year are Flames over Tampa Bay in a re-match of 2004 with the right team winning this time. Pace is picking the Ducks repeating as […]
Reading History Backwards – a blogger decides to read history, one year at a time, starting with the current year and working his way back by reading the one defining book of each year's major news event. This column covers the 1990's. Books Toolbox – 50+ great sites for book lovers Top 10 Wikipedia Tricks
A quantitative look at the Top 25 Library Bloggers provides some obvious ones, some new ones to check out and one massive glaring omission! (via the ALA's “American Libraries Direct” e-newsletter which is frankly one of the best e-newsletters I've seen in my life.) Also from the newsletter, I wants! [Edit: compare and contrast the […]
Other bands and artists have hinted at this model but nobody on the level of Radiohead has gone this far. Their new album, “In Rainbows” will be released on October 10 using a “Pay What You Want” model for those who download it digitally. Says one commentator on Reddit: “I can't stand Radiohead's music, but […]
Today marks the six month anniversary of me starting at Southeast Regional Library. It's hard to believe how time is flying – I think any job tends to go faster, the longer you're there and the more comfortable you get but this one, mixed with the new baby which also helps to make time pretty […]
Mark P. has collected a random assortment of YouTube clips for one of his recent blog posts which features some great live performances. I'd seen the one with the British cell phone salesman singing opera before and it's definitely worth checking out (although admittedly, the editing goes a long way to increasing the impact – […]
I mentioned in an earlier post that Bloglines isn't reading the RSS feed for this blog for some reason (and hasn't for some time apparently.) I sent them a complaint and they basically said “we're working on it”. A couple readers also sent in complaints to Bloglines with no results. No other news but I […]
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This is a wicked version of an awesome song (even the drunk guys singing in the audience don't ruin it – actually, they sort of add to the anthemic feel.) And I never really caught the power of James Dean Bradfield's voice until hearing him do acoustic versions of some Manic songs. (Thanks intrawebs!)
An annual survey provides a snapshot of the world of library bloggers. I don't think I filled this out when the call for responses went out so here are my responses:1. Male2. 31-40 years old3. Western Canada (survey methodology – she lists “Eastern, Western and Middle of” as choices for Canada. I know there are […]
