You are invited to A Post-Work Gathering For Regina and Area LibrariansFriday, July 20, 2007 from 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm To be held at Cathedral Village Free House (2062 Albert Street) — your hosts are Jason Hammond and Julie McKennaThis is a chance for any librarians in Regina and area to get together for […]
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MICHAEL MOORE OFFERS TO REIMBURSE THE UNITED NURSES OF ALBERTA FOR THEIR SUPPORT OF HIS HIGHLY ACCLAIMED FILM SiCKO CANADIAN DISTRIBUTOR APPLAUDS MICHAEL MOORE'S ACTION AND OFFERS FREE ADMISSION TO ALL NURSES ACROSS CANADA STARTING MONDAY, JULY 16TH TORONTO, ONTARIO – July 12, 2007 – In an effort to encourage members of the public to […]
Okay, we're not quite there yet (or you aren't if you're my age – I suspect 18-24 year olds are) but it feels like we're heading in that direction. E-mail was the original “killer app” of the Internet. It was the one service that everybody online had since you got issued an e-mail address as […]
The author of the popular Freakonomics book looks at the question, “If public libraries didn’t exist, could you start one today?” “But here’s the point I’m (finally) getting to: if there was no such thing today as the public library and someone like Bill Gates proposed to establish them in cities and towns across the […]
I've had four speeding tickets in my life… #1 – I was driving home late at a night from a summer job during college after a week working in northern Saskatchewan. Anxious to get home, I was going pretty fast when an RCMP officer passed me just outside a town on the other site of […]
As opposed to the last time I did this, this avatar is officially sanctioned. (Oh, and the Simpsons movie better not suck – even though I have an inordinate amount of fear that it will!)Inspired by Kristina O, Michelle L and various others who changed their Facebook profile photos to 2-D form (which I'm told […]
I finally managed to catch up on responses to the comments that have come in over the last month (my policy is to try to respond to every comment I get – post a “hey Jay” and see if it's true! ) There was one a month ago from Taryn that said this:“Hi Jason, I'm […]
Here's an article that's making the rounds from the New York Times' Fashion & Style section – A Hipper Crowd of Shushers“How did such a nerdy profession become cool — aside from the fact that a certain amount of nerdiness is now cool? Many young librarians and library professors said that the work is no […]
When I posted that jokey one-liner yesterday about the ridiculousness of Madonna lecturing me about saving the environment, I knew her blather was typical celebrity hypocrisy. I didn't realise just how bad she is though. Thanks Madge. Go steal another kid from the third world. (Of course, we live in a world where even “celebrity-as-saviour” […]
I didn't do much about the July 7, 2007 (777) hype. I know there were lots of weddings (and c-sections!) and other milestone type events planned for yesterday. And I know casinos expected to be extremely busy. But it took me until today to realise that Pace was seven weeks old yesterday. So there's another […]
