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Custom Google Search Engine

I’ve always wanted a search engine that would only return results from the sites I use the most. This morning on Facebook, someone posted a link to a Google sub-site that allows you to do just that – Google Custom Search Engine. If this works, it should only search Wikipedia, YouTube, Reddit and MetaFilter – […]

Posted 09 February 2011 § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Too Many Tabs Tuesday

Just a link dump of some of the stuff I’ve got hanging around in my browser… “Evolving English” Exhibit at the British Library (via MF) “You’ll Upset Your Mother” – Atheists Are Expected to Remain Silent In A World Where Religion Is the Norm O Canada: Economic Lessons from Our Northern Neighbour (via somebody on […]

Posted 08 February 2011 § Library § Politics § Randomness ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

The Beauty of the PVR

We have a PVR on our TV and one of the biggest benefits for me is the ability to all but avoid commercials – either by recording programs and watching them at a later time or even while watching a show in near real-time. This is especially useful for “event” television like oh, I don’t […]

Posted 06 February 2011 § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Happy SILS-iversary!!!

Today is the one year anniversary of RPL going live as part of the SILS consortium.  Hard to believe and definitely deserving of a list (or even two!) Best Things About SILS 1. Patrons (and staff) can now easily get books from any public library system in the province.  Especially for smaller systems with fewer […]

Posted 02 February 2011 § Library § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Help Stop Usage Based Billing (UBB)

Metered Bandwidth isn’t about stopping bandwidth hogs, it’s about preserving old media business models Stephen Harper asks for review of CRTC Decision by March 1 But it’s not resolved yet – join a quarter million of your fellow Canadians by signing the petition More on UBB from Reddit. igning the petition

Posted 01 February 2011 § Politics ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Five Hits on National Family Literacy Day

It was National Family Literacy Day today and nothing starts your day off like doing the hokey pokey to tie in to this year’s theme of “Play for Literacy’.  Good stuff – I joked with one co-worker that we could do it everyday, sort of the RPL version of the Wal-Mart Cheer.   Another co-worker […]

Posted 27 January 2011 § Family § Politics § Work ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , ,

Friday Fun Link – World-o-Meters

A very cool statistical representation of various world statistics. (H/T to Kelly P. on Facebook)

Posted 21 January 2011 § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , ,

Saskatchewan’s Top Tweeters

Came across this on Twitter and thought I’d pass it along for anyone in Saskatchewan who’s interested in finding some more local contact for their Twitter feed.

Posted 20 January 2011 § ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: ,

How Much Does A Single Search Cost Google?

About a penny.

Posted 18 January 2011 § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Saturday Snap – The Nerd Is Strong With This One

Saturday Snap – 1988 Computer Specs, originally uploaded by headtale. My mom was cleaning out some papers at home and found the original spec sheet/packing slip for the first computer our family ever bought in 1988 which is when I was in grade nine. It doesn’t have the actual price mom and dad paid but […]

Posted 15 January 2011 § Family § MemoryLane § SaturdaySnap § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: , ,