Instant MessagingI am back on instant messaging. After using IM quite a bit in the heyday of ICQ, I got away from it for a variety of reasons (no friends mainly ) but after being asked for my MSN info by a colleague today (and also attempting to do a virtual reference exercise last week […]
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Southwest Ontario Playlist
I'm creating a playlist of songs that have some connection to SW Ontario, preferably by specific name checks of locations in the title of the song but also by subject matter, artist residency or other similar factors. Here's what I've got so far…“Linda, Put the Coffee On” – Ray Materick “Tillsonburg” – Stompin' Tom Connors“Wreck […]
Canadian Library Association
Turn around twice and after two days in Toronto, I'm off to Ottawa for the Canadian Library Association conference. I'm taking my laptop but not sure what the Internet situation will be like where we're staying so new blog posts may be sporadic until next week. The timing couldn't have been better – the one […]
George W. Bush performing U2's "Sunday Bloody Sunday"
I heard the audio version of this a few months ago but someone went and made a video to accompany it. Brilliant!
Hawksley Workman = Awesome!
Went to the Hawksley Workman show tonight (early show – I think London is the only place on the current tour that got two shows because of high demand. ) I might do a full review later but I'll just say that Hawksley Workman is awesome in concert and if you've never seen him before, […]
Jane Siberry's Distribution Model…
…is that she lets her fans decide how much and when they want to pay for downloading her music. How cool and progressive (and Canadian) is that? This is in contrast to the Red Hot Chili Peppers who issued some lower case poetry to expression their concern that fans may download an inferior sounding digital […]
Bonsoir, je n'ai aucun poisson
Despite the ribbing I took from my much hipper, cooler acquaintances (who only listen to Franz Ferdinand and Sufjan Stevens), the Willie Nelson and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band concert was excellent last night. What can I say? Both are part of growing up in rural Saskatchewan and ironically, the opening act are probably more […]
Recent Tracks RSS Feed
I've been using Last FM to track the songs I listen to since sometime before Christmas and was very glad to see that they also provide an RSS feed of “Songs That You've Recently Listened To” among other options. After a bit of messing around, I was able to add the feed to the right […]
Treeful of Starling
Until I figure out an automated way, let's do it like this… N(ow) P(laying): “You and the Candles” – Hawksley Workman …from his new CD “Treeful of Starling” which I picked up today at Masonville Mall. It's been a fairly commerce-enabled day – I also finally broke down and ordered a digital camera, a Canon […]
Fredettes…
Now that I've figured out what time zone I'm in (I think my first entry was timemarked as the default Pacific time zone and that last one, I thought I was in “Central” (because I'm in Central Canada right?) when in fact, I'm in “Eastern”. That's what I get from coming from a province that […]