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How Far Would You Go to Promote Your Web Site?

I was looking through my MetaFilter profile – seeing which posts and comments of others that I've favourited and who has favourited posts and comments of mine.  This led me to realise that someone appears to have paid the $5 lifetime membership to create a MetaFilter account simply to have a profile with a single […]

Posted 05 January 2008 § Internet ‡ Comments (2) °

Friday Fun Link – Edge Annual Question (Jan 5, 2008)

Each year for the past ten years, the Edge Foundation has asked leading intellectuals and thinkers, from Brian Eno to Richard Dawkins to Tim O'Reilly for their thoughts on a particular question.The 2008 question is “What have you changed your mind about?  Why?” You can also find an archive of previous questions such as…2007 – […]

Posted 05 January 2008 § FridayFunLink ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

The 5 Most Annoying Programs on Your PC

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? 

Posted 03 January 2008 § Library § List § Technology ‡ Comments (2) °

Threatened By The Internet? Music Biz Should Rock Like Librarians

Quinn has posted a great article on his site (I've bolded the really fascinating part below):At the risk of jinxing things – I think it’s pretty clear that there’s a historic shift underway between activities we used to engage in offline and things we now do online. It’s no surprise, for example, that CD saleswere down […]

Posted 02 January 2008 § Internet § Library § PopCulture ‡ Comments (4) ° Tagged:

For Your New Year's Baby (or If You're Expecting One Soon), You Need Nymbler

From the people who brought you the endlessly fascinating, Baby Name Wizard's “Name Voyageur” web site which shows the popularity of various names during the past 100 years, a new web site called Nymbler – Your Personal Baby Name Assistant which provides baby name recommendations. Some of their suggestions when we put in “Jason” and […]

Posted 02 January 2008 § Baby ‡ Comments (0) °

Another Photo From Our Christmas

One of my favourites…

Posted 31 December 2007 § Baby § Photo § Sports § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

More Than Babble: Baby's First Words May Be Key To Origins of Spoken Language

Pace is babbling up a storm these days (what's the line?  “You spend the first few months of their lives waiting for them to talk and the next eighteen years wishing they would stop!” ) with lots of “da da”, “ga ga”, “blah blah, blah” (seriously!) and grunting noises.  So I did some research (okay, […]

Posted 29 December 2007 § Baby § Library ‡ Comments (4) ° Tagged:

Friday Fun Link – List of Bests (Dec 28, 2007)

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 […]

Posted 29 December 2007 § FridayFunLink § List ‡ Comments (0) °

Merry (Belated) Christmas From The Hammond Family

Posted 28 December 2007 § Baby § Photo § Shea § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) °

"Christmas Card From A Hooker" – Tom Waits

Not really a music video but a fine example of the “emotionally ambivalent” style of Christmas song I wrote about recently.

Posted 27 December 2007 § PopCulture § Video § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: