“Blogs, they're what old people do now…E-mail is the same way. The youngest generation of Internet users don't bother with blogs or e-mail, preferring social sites such as MySpace and instant messaging to stay in touch.” – Librarian.net's Jessamyn West, profiled in the “Everybody's Interesting” column of Valley News…although to be fair, the article does […]
Now, we just need:“My Grandpa Thompson is a Gas Man”“Help! My Grandma Thompson is Stealing Me (again)”“How come my Grandpa Hammond has as many teeth as I do?” “I think my Grandma Hammond slipped some homemade wine in my bottle!”…and we're good to go! Thanks to Meshell for the tip!
Nurses, rightfully so, have one of the highest trust/respect ratings of any profession in society. But like any profession, they're not immune to frustrations with their patients.
Here's a humourous look at some of them via a forwarded e-mail my mom (a nurse) sent to Shea (also a nurse):
For many library users, the OPAC is the source of connection to their library – how they find books, movies, CD's, etc. And it's a well-known issue in libraryland that OPAC's frequently aren't all they should be, something that's increasingly in the spotlight because of how much better Web 2.0 sites like Amazon and LibraryThing […]
A cultural anthropology professor has put together a very engaging presentation on what exactly “Web 2.0” is all about. (via Digg) [2007-02-05 – I love MetaFilter but man, sometimes they can be harsh. The majority are ripping this video a new one in a thread that was just posted. I sometimes forget that people – […]
Saskatchewan Round-UpSask Government Insurance, a crown corporation that provides insurance to all drivers in our province, is offering $180 rebates to safe drivers on their automobile insurance and lowering rates by an average of 5% as well (when we already have the lowest auto insurance rates in Canada – why do you think I love […]
DoTheRightThing.com is a new web site that’s similar to Digg in that users submit stories and others vote the stories up or down. But unlike Digg, where the criteria for voting up or down a story are fairly diverse, this site asks for you to vote based on the positive or negative impact the story […]
Google announced their fourth quarter earnings today. They made a profit of $1.03 Billion which is triple what they made in the final quarter of 2005. I have to admit that I was responsible for, oh, about twenty bucks of that. I've detailed my experiments with creating Wikipedia pages, submitting Digg stories and my thoughts […]
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Tom Carmichael was recently selected as the new Dean at FIMS. (Thanks to Linda B. for the tip – it's been a month and I'm already out of touch with what's going on at FIMS!) I went to all three information sessions for the Decanal candidates and Tom was my second pick of the three […]
My dad has a heavy old, four-drawer metal filing cabinet. When I was a kid, that filing cabinet was one the most fascinating things for me in our entire house. Many times, when my sister and I would play school or store, the filing cabinet had a part in the story. And it's probably not […]
