Used a poor man's hack (point iPhone at TV) to get a clip from our local TV news about RPL joining our new province-wide consortium onto YouTube. Sorry for the crappy sound…
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Regina Public Library Joins SILS
Today was the big day when RPL joined three other library systems within the province who had already gone live as part of a province-wide library system called the Saskatchewan Information and Library Services consortium (SILS). By the end of the year, SILS will be comprised of a total of ten library systems covering the […]
Friday Fun Link – Fuck This Weather (January 8, 2010)
Appropriate for the first FFL of 2010 on a day where the mercury dropped to -48 with windchill (aka “hmmm, I did not realise that you could get frostbite there.”)
Saturday Snap – Sparkle Tour Highlight
This home was one of the highlights of our sparkle tour in my hometown tonight. (We're having Early Christmas with my parents this weekend then going to Shea's parents' for the actual day.)
Regina Public Library Upgrading to New System
The launch of the province-wide library system, SILS, is getting more and more media attention with Saskatoon being the first system to go live next week. Here's an article from our local daily newspaper about the new arrangement. Not sure if I mentioned this before but I think that with over 300 branches involved across […]
I Have Never Seen…
…a sporting championship won by a team that was behind the ENTIRE game and THEN, won on a horrible penalty AFTER the game was over due to a missed last second point score attempt. I mean, after Montreal's missed field goal, everyone at our house stood up and exchanged hugs, thinking the game was over, […]
Saturday Snap – Where Did the Watermelon Helmet Tradition Come From? (Go Riders Go!)
A colleague brought this to work on Friday then got snaps of a bunch of the staff trying it on. I'm a Rider fan but gotta say this was a first for me! (Here's a history of the watermelon helmet from TSN.)
Rider Fans = Neanderthals?
The person who submitted this Letter to the Editor to the Calgary Herald didn't give their title. But I suspect it might be “Agent for Henry Burris”.
Conservative? I Do Not Think That Word Means What You Think It Means
So it was just announced that the Sask Party, which initially projected potash revenues to be $1.9 billion will actually only bring $109 million to provincial coffers (a whopping 95% LESS than they projected! ) Now, whether your political colour is orange or green, blue or red, purple or pink, if you put aside the […]