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Category Archives: Technology

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: , ,

Friday Fun Link – Best Free Web Stuff For Broke Libraries

A great summary of every single type of free online service you (or your library) might be interested in… (via LibrarianInBlack) Best Free Web Stuff for Broke Libraries View more presentations from Sarah Houghton-Jan.

Posted 14 January 2011 § FridayFunLink § Library ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Two. Periods. After. A. Space.

Guility.  Yep.  Definitely.  Learned it in Typing10 a million years ago.  Hard to break a habit like that. (H/T to CP on FB for the link)

Posted 13 January 2011 § MemoryLane ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Friday Fun Link – Web Services Worth Paying For?

The nature of the Internet is changing and developing constantly and one of the most significant evolutions is the nature of commerce online. Now, there’s always been commerce online and most definitely since the web entered the popular consciousness in the mid to late 1990’s.  I remember buying a book from Amazon somewhere around 1997 […]

Posted 07 January 2011 § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

8 Smears and Misconceptions About WikiLeaks Spread By the Media | | AlterNet

(Trying the “Press This” WordPress bookmarklet…) 8 Smears and Misconceptions About WikiLeaks Spread By the Media | | AlterNet. [Edit: Oh, and here’s a Reddit thread that summarizes, beyond the hype and lies, “what has WikiLeaks actually done?”]

Posted 06 January 2011 § Politics ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Going Viral

As I posted on Facebook on New Year’s Day, there was a time when puking all night on New Year’s Eve meant you’d had a “good time”.  But this year, it wasn’t such a good time since Pace caught a flu bug and spent the night in bed between Shea and I, puking into a […]

Posted 02 January 2011 § Family ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

The Mother of All Lists

I think I post this site every year and once again, Fimoculous is compiling all of the various “Best of” and “Top 10” lists that come out around the end of the year.  It’s a great place to check in on the music, movies, books and other listable items that you may have missed.

Posted 30 December 2010 § PopCulture § Randomness ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – Google Books NGram Viewer

A Google Labs project, the strangely named NGram Viewer allows you to search for various words and see how their usage in books within the Google Books archive has changed over the past 200 year (or any time frame you specify). Examples: Hitler Computer (note the weird blip around 1900?) War Socialism Negro Canada (highest […]

Posted 17 December 2010 § FridayFunLink ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Awesome Google Docs “Presentation” Mode Demo

This slideshow presentation was made only using Google Docs’ “Presentation” mode – no Flash, no animation software, no trickery at all!

Posted 16 December 2010 § Video ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: ,

A World Map Drawn With Facebook Connections

With the announcement of Mark Zuckerberg as Time’s 2010 “Person of the Year”, I thought it would be fitting to post this awesome map that’s been created by a Facebook engineer comprised solely of lines showing the connections between 10 million Facebook users around the world. (Full size image – 4.3 mb but worth it) […]

Posted 15 December 2010 § ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: ,