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Music Monday – “Thought I was alone in the world/Until my memories gathered ’round me in the night/Thought I was strong/Until I finally had to fight”

Jason Isbell, one of the greatest living songwriters today, did a free concert to promote the release of his new album, “Reunions”, and though lots of artists are doing live streams from their living rooms and their music rooms and so on, this might be the first one I’ve seen that’s tried to re-create much […]

¶ Posted 18 May 2020 § Jobs § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, economics, music

Friday Fun Link – Some Useful COVID-19 Resources & Trackers

These are ordered roughly in the order that I find them useful but I’d encourage anyone reading this to open them all and find which ones you prefer for yourself. Also, feel free to post a comment if there are sites I haven’t listed that you prefer. COVID-19 Canada Tracker – designed by a […]

¶ Posted 27 March 2020 § Canada § FridayFunLink § Infographic § Internet § List § News § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, economics, education, health, unitedstates

Sorry, @officialRPL, I have a new favourite “RPL”

Radiohead has launched the Radiohead Public Library – a massive online archive of streaming albums, music & concert videos, rarities, merchandise and much more. Here’s a list of ten things that are getting fans very excited about this new site. And just for the heck of it, something not on the RPL site but instead, […]

¶ Posted 21 January 2020 § Internet § Library § MemoryLane § PopCulture § UK ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, history, music

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Blog Analytics for 2019

As so many sites/apps do at this time of year, one of my blog plug-ins also provided a “Year in Review” report for my blog traffic. Now, I should back up and repeat my standard line that I tend to think of this blog as my “acreage in the country” – far away from the […]

¶ Posted 02 January 2020 § Blog § Humour § MemoryLane § Randomness § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – Quick Draw With Google

This is a pretty fun game (especially if you don’t think about the implications of millions of humans training Google’s AI systems so tech companies can control us more!) 😉

¶ Posted 13 September 2019 § FridayFunLink § Internet § Meme ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, economics, education, language

A Taste of What The Public Library in a Village of 255 People Has To Offer…

Man, do I love small town libraries! And always great to see the amazing things happening across the regional system where I first worked after completing my MLIS 13 (!) years ago. Southeast Regional Library has a slogan “Not The Library You Remember” and though I think it’s mostly aimed at people who only remember […]