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Category Archives: Technology

Travel Planning, Coincidence and (Another) Once In A Lifetime Experience

Recently, at my library, I delivered a program called “Trip Planning 2.0: How To Research Your Vacation Online” where I gave registrants a “guided tour” of some the most useful sites for trip planning, both well-known (Google, TripAdvisor) and lesser-known (Reddit, FourSquare). (The program was basically an expanded version of a blog post I did […]

Posted 17 February 2015 § Library § PopCulture § Travel § Video § Work ‡ Comments (5) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Friday Fun Link – AllTheMinutes (Twitter Clock)

You may want to turn your Mute button but otherwise, the site AllTheMinutes.com is pretty cool. It shows a clock comprised of live tweets (one per second) from people around the world who have mentioned the current time. Great insight into the boring everyday lives of humanity (at least those who use Twitter!)

Posted 23 January 2015 § FridayFunLink ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – New Copyright Laws Come Into Effect Today (On An Unrelated Note, Here’s Some Info On How To Torrent Without Your ISP Being Able to Identify You)

A new law comes into effect today which requires ISPs to forward letters to their customers that media companies suspect of pirating movies, music and other digital content via IP addresses connected to those files. On a completely unrelated note, here’s a thread on Reddit about ways that people can torrent files without your ISP knowing […]

Posted 02 January 2015 § Canada § FridayFunLink § Humour § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – 7 Top Kickstarter Projects Now Available on Amazon

Some really interesting, cool stuff here.

Posted 19 December 2014 § FridayFunLink ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Today in Piracy (er, Grey Market Copyright Activity)

Pirate Bay taken down by Swiss authorities It will likely be up again very soon in a different form and/or with a different URL SaskTel rumoured to begin sending copyright infringement notices to its Internet customers in the new year

Posted 09 December 2014 § Censorship § Internet § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Happy Singles Day!

Originally started by Chinese university students as an anti-Valentines Day where single people were encouraged to buy themselves gifts, “Singles Day” on November 11 (11/11) has exploded in popularity over the past five years to become China’s equivalent of Black Friday with their Amazon/eBay clone, Alibaba, leading the charge. I heard about it last year […]

Posted 11 November 2014 § Internet § Meme § PopCulture § Randomness § Travel § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) °

Library Web Sites Worth Looking At

A few good suggestions here for what’s current in library web design.

Posted 04 November 2014 § Internet § Library § List ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – What the Hell is Ello?

An ad-free, privacy conscious social network (or is it?) (via Quinn Dupont who, if possible, is using even bigger words than when I knew him at FIMS!) 😉

Posted 26 September 2014 § FridayFunLink § LibrarySchool ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Five Topics

Hockey Pre-season has begun which means the real season is only a couple weeks away.  Did you know that a generally accepted rule of Canadian publishing is any book with anything to do with hockey is guaranteed to be a huge seller?  True story. Politics No matter, how much he tries to excuse it, I […]

Posted 24 September 2014 § Humour § Jobs § Library § List § Pace § Randomness § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – How Would Steve Jobs Sell You A Pen?

“Sell me this pen.” An old business school cliche, recently brought to attention again in the movie, “The Wolf of Wall Street” gets a fictional Steve Jobs spin.

Posted 19 September 2014 § FridayFunLink § PopCulture § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,