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Category Archives: Technology

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: , , , ,

10 Steps Society Needs To Take Before The *Next* Pandemic

Yes, the *next* mass pandemic. We dodged the bullet a few times with recent outbreaks like SARS, H1N1, Ebola, etc. But some very smart people foresaw that a devastating worldwide pandemic was inevitable due to the increasing number of viruses that were reaching humans. This is the result of a combination of humans aggressively moving […]

Posted 25 March 2020 § List § News § Politics ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

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: , ,

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 – 99 Good News Stories You Probably Didn’t Hear About In 2019

Things aren’t so bad.

Posted 20 December 2019 § FridayFunLink § List ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

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: , , ,

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 […]

Posted 10 September 2019 § Library § LibrarySchool § MemoryLane § Saskatchewan § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Eating With The World’s Most Isolated Tribe

We live in a pretty amazing world where I can use some of the world’s most advanced technology – the Internet, YouTube, wifi – to watch a video clip about one of the world’s most primitive societies.  

Posted 28 August 2019 § Internet § Travel § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , ,

Friday Fun Link – “Stone Cold” Steve Austin on “Hot Ones”

 

Posted 16 August 2019 § FridayFunLink § PopCulture § Video § Wrestling ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

(Belated) Throwback Thursday – #tbt – That’s A Switch! (April 2008)

Pace used his saved up birthday/Christmas/babysitting money to buy himself a $500 Nintendo Switch the other day – a long ways from when he was a year old and having fun on the $50 desktop computer I bought from Southeast Regional Library after they decommissioned it.

Posted 11 July 2019 § Baby § Family § Humour § Library § Pace § Photo § ThrowbackThursday § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,