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Category Archives: Technology

Four Week "Introduction To Computers" Course

I was asked to teach a four week “Intro To Computers” course for the month of November at the Weyburn Public Library, one of two city branches in our region, while they are temporarily short-staffed.  Last week was my final class so I thought I'd put up the outlines and some thoughts in case that's […]

Posted 03 December 2007 § Internet § Library § List § Main Page § Work ‡ Comments (0) °

Google Launches PowerPoint Clone, "Presently"

“Google has officially launched the missing piece in Google’s online office suite: Presently, a presentation product that competes directly with Microsoft PowerPoint.” (via TechCrunch)In related office suite news, IBM has announced that they're going to release their Lotus Symphony software for free to compete directly with MS-Office.  Symphony is based on open source software from […]

Posted 19 September 2007 § Internet § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

Universal Health Care 2.0

I had an appointment with a specialist last week and during the course of it, he asked me about a procedure I'd had over ten years ago.  Being so long ago, I couldn't remember some of the important details such as what the exact sequence of events leading to me having this procedure was or […]

Posted 17 September 2007 § Internet § Main Page § Politics ‡ Comments (0) °

Things You Can Do When You Have Your Laptop But No Internet Access

Went to our family cottage at Katepwa Lake last night, one of the few places left on earth that doesn't have Internet connectivity apparently. I did have my laptop so after Pace went down for the night, here are some things I was able to do (or at least thought about doing)…– I've mentioned that […]

Posted 09 September 2007 § List § Main Page ‡ Comments (4) °

Friday Fun Link – Does Internet Filtering Work? (June 22, 2007)

In keeping with the topic of the day over at my other most favourite site on the Internet, LibrarianActivist, here’s a report on internet filtering from the National Coalition Against Censorship which is admittedly, a bit dated, having been produced in 2001. But it gives an excellent overview of many of the issues and problems […]

Posted 22 June 2007 § Canada § Censorship § FridayFunLink § Internet § Library § LibrarySchool § List § Main Page § Politics ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged:

Extended Warranties

Have you ever had the experience of going into an electronics store and having a salesperson try to hard sell you an extended warranty before you've even committed to actually buying a product?  There's a mixed view on these warranties which are licenses to print money for the electronics retailers – some people say you […]

Posted 03 June 2007 § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °