Below is a long overdue photo of Keegan, our resident teenager.

One of the highlights of my travel experiences was a trip to Fiji on the way back from New Zealand several years ago. My friend, Kevin, and I stayed in a small hut near the beach on the Coral Coast of Viti Levu, the largest island in the Fijian island group. The place [...]

Yesterday I got a brand new inkjet printer for my work PC: a Canon Pixma iP3000. I wanted a better color printer than my old Epson C80 and this has way more functionality at a cheaper cost. Especially important is that its cost of ownership (e.g. ink replacement cost, etc.) is much [...]

I just received word that my article on locally developed serials management systems (published in Serials Review Volume 30, Issue 2, 1 January 2004, Pages 122-126), was #10 in the top 10 most downloaded articles from that journal. How cool is that?!

BBC NEWS | Business | Apple Macs: Objects of devotion — This is quite an interesting article, worth reading whether you are an Apple devotee or not. The author really hits on something, that Macs may indeed be better than their Wintel counterparts, but a lot of “it” is just a sociological phenomenon. Yeah, I [...]

A long time ago I was invited to give a presentation on the extended DVD for The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King for a meeting of the C.S. Lewis Society here at Taylor. I had given a similar presentation last January as part of a panel including Dr. Paul Michelson [...]

Yesterday I put up a PDF bibliography of selected resources by and about Martin Luther King, Jr. at Taylor in honor of MLK Day, created by my boss and a Taylor undergraduate who is working for us as a library intern. Check it out.

Keegan turned thirteen this week. Yikes! We now have a teenager in the house! See photos from his birthday here. Next up: Cohen turns one year old in a few weeks…

The latest issue of Beneath the Bell Tower, my library’s online newsletter, was made available in December but I neglected to mention it here ’til now. Of particular note is that this issue features a completely new and more professional design thanks to Ashley, one of the student web developers who worked for me [...]

MacCentral: Apple posts MWSF keynote webcast – a post from MacCentral, highlights the availability of Steve Job’s keynote speech as MacWorld SF. I watched most of it late last night while lying in bed, unable to get to sleep. It was interesting for me to notice some rather important glitches in Jobs’s presentation, perhaps as [...]