So I was giving my standard “these days, buying online or doing your online banking is as safe, if not safer, than doing it via a real world transaction” line during a public Internet session the other day when some old guy puts up his hand and goes “What about that Silent Banker virus they […]
Gives new meaning to the phrase “cook book“. And pretty much any site's even more fun when viewed with this.
Is there a word for “expected volunteering”? I see this all the time in the small towns I visit where the locals are expected to volunteer for various organizations to keep those organizations running – the rec board, the library board, the arts society, the parks committee, etc – so their “volunteer” service to these […]
It's a bit ironic that the town I visited today for Internet training happens to have a small place in Internet history itself. But other than a brief discussion with the branch librarian about the events of the last couple years since a young man from Montreal was able to execute a series of online […]
U2's manager, Paul McGuinness, recently came out heavily against Radiohead and file sharing in general. If you know U2's position on copyright, that's probably not a big surprise. So the main reason I'm posting this story isn't because of that revelation but because of this hilarious quote from the MetaFilter discussion:[McGuinness:] Notwithstanding the promotional noise, […]
(Click on the graphic to see a larger image) (via Reddit which has some good discussion about this magical, mystical place the person is seeking)
Our library director commutes daily from Regina to Weyburn and back, a round-trip of about two and a half hours. He told a funny story before Christmas about one day a few years ago when a blizzard hit the province and he was the only person to make it to work that day – even […]
I'm following the US primaries (especially the Democratic ones) with great interest. Here are a few Barack Obama-related stories that have caught my attention lately…Barack Obama decisively wins South Carolina. Caroline Kennedy endorsed Obama via a NY Times editorial entitled “A President Like My Father“Barakoblogger is one of many Obama-focused blogs out there that's a […]
We've had Pace going pretty good a few times but haven't caught it on camera yet. So, instead I give you Jack's first belly laugh (who coincidentally is also 8 months old)…
One of the things I'm trying to do while on the road training branch librarians and the general public about the Internet and computers is to go beyond the usual suspects (Google, Wikipedia, Flickr and so on) to share some more obscure sites people might not have heard about but which are really interesting or […]
