10 June 2008 Comments Off

Remember the OLD Internet?

The Internet Is Too Smart » The WVb:
I remember first accessing the internet. If you wanted to know something you’d hit up a chatroom via one of the crappy browser chatrooms or IRC. Doing this you’d meet a ton of people. You’d break the ice by them helping you with your problem, or you helping [...]

24 April 2008 Comments Off

Guest Post at Willtaft.com

As some people know, I have been dealing with a health issue involving a colleague at work and have not had the time I normally would have in the evenings to write blog posts.
Yesterday however, I ended up writing a very lengthy comment in response to Will Taft’s blog post Why Obama Might Be Our [...]

29 September 2007 6 Comments

Excellent Quote from PP, or Why I don’t do Facebook or MySpace

Phil’s Proof » Everything that’s wrong with Facebook:

Suddenly, when all your friends have been reduced to teensy avatars, canned quotations, and endless ‘favourites’ lists, they don’t seem quite as special as you may have once remembered them.
I really liked this quote from a blog post on the problems with the big social networking [...]

29 September 2007 Comments Off

More on Banned Books Week…

I rarely do this, but since today is the first day of Banned Books Week and I just don’t have the time to write about it, I am going to link off to Alan’s post on the subject.  He wrote Free People Read Freely yesterday.   I’ve read 9 of the 10 books he lists in [...]

18 September 2007 2 Comments

BlogRush Trial

UPDATE: Six hours later I decided to remove it.  Too many spam posts showing up there.
After noticing it on exquizzme, I decided to give the BlogRush widget a try.  That’s it on the right above the Library Stuff booknails.  It is supposed to only do targeted links so I will be keeping an eye on [...]

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