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Friday Fun Link – “Google.com” Was Registered Twenty Years Ago Today

At the time, I never thought I’d leave AltaVista, which is retroactively recognized as the “Google of Its Time“.

¶ Posted 15 September 2017 § FridayFunLink § Internet § MemoryLane § News § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, education, google, history

Obligatory iPhone X Post

I feel an obligation to post this… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4wEI5zhHB0

¶ Posted 13 September 2017 § Internet § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, economics, history

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Bridge Between Katepwa and Mission Lakes (Aug 30, 2009)

I’ve always liked this photo taken from a boat in the channel between Katepwa and Mission Lakes in the Qu’Appelle Valley. Not bad for an iPhone 3G camera…

¶ Posted 07 September 2017 § MemoryLane § Photo § Saskatchewan § ThrowbackThursday § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: saskatchewan, travel

Friday Fun Link – r/solareclipse

We were out at the lake all weekend and just got back today (Tuesday) but I’m going to do a few quick backdated posts for the past few days starting with the Friday Fun Link I missed – Reddit’s r/solareclipse sub-Reddit which actually works really well as a delayed link because it now has lots of […]

¶ Posted 18 August 2017 § FridayFunLink § Internet § Meme § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, science

Friday Fun Link – Camping Hifi

Bluetooth speaker in a bucket…

¶ Posted 21 July 2017 § FridayFunLink § Humour § Photo § Randomness ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: camping, science, travel

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – iPhone’s 10th Anniversary

Today is the tenth anniversary of the iPhone being released, perhaps the single most revolutionary product of my lifetime. There has been numerous models of iPhone in that time of course, each offering incremental and often transformative improvements. I got my first iPhone 3GS around 2009 – I was too cheap to buy one even […]

¶ Posted 29 June 2017 § Internet § MemoryLane § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) °

No @ChickfilA For You Thanks To @TD_Canada Text Alerts!

About a year and a half ago, my credit card got compromised. I don’t think I blogged about it but I posted this on Facebook at the time in response to a post by someone else who said their card got compromised: I just had my first encounter with credit card fraud too. Early the […]

¶ Posted 17 May 2017 § MemoryLane § Randomness § ThrowbackThursday § UK § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, unitedstates

Music Monday – “There are places I’ll remember/All my life, though some have changed/Some forever, not for better/Some have gone and some remain” (4000th Post Milestone!)

It’s pretty hard to believe but today marks the 4000th post this blog since I started it over a decade ago on February 25, 2006, a couple months after starting the Masters of Library Science program at the University of Western Ontario. I had always been into computers and technology from banging out programs in […]

¶ Posted 15 May 2017 § Blog § Internet § Library § LibrarySchool § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: history, ontario

10 Things Elwin Hermanson Could Learn At A Library #skpoli #SaveSKLibraries

Former Reform MP and first leader of the Sask Party, Elwin Hermanson, came out of the woodwork (there’s a Hermanson/hermit pun in there somewhere) recently to weigh in on the backlash to the Sask Party’s cuts to public libraries… It’s hard to know where to start with such a clueless and misinformed post. But I’ll try… […]

¶ Posted 23 April 2017 § Humour § Internet § Library § List § Meme § News § Politics § Sad § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (7) ° Tagged: economics, education, saskatchewan