During a visit to family on New Year’s, the younger kids had a lot of fun playing dress up in some old clothes. Click here for the full set of photos.

Click here to view some photos from Tristan’s 5th birthday party in December.

The following song was sung at our church this a.m. It was sung in the context of a powerful sermon focusing on social justice in light of celebrating the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. There has never been someone in this world more focused on or better at social justice than [...]

I’ve been using Google Analytics since mid-November 2005 to gain some knowledge about who visits this blog, how much traffic it generates, and from where. It’s not a perfect tool but hey, it’s free and it’s easy to use. I’ve read that others question the results given to them by Google Analytics and [...]

This article in the Chicago Tribune today was interesting to read, although it didn’t cover any new ground in the debate about employee blogging. Now that I work for a commercial entity again, this is an issue that I am more aware of. As far as I know there is no official blogging [...]

There is still a lot of debate about the usefulness and longevity of blogs. I can see both sides, i.e. that blogs can be dangerous, erroneous, harmful; and that blogs can be very beneficial, informative, and useful. One aspect to blogging that has also been discussed is its effect on one’s job or [...]

A few days ago while perusing the latest issue of American Libraries, I was pleased to read an announcement that ACRL has decided to make the archive of its flagship journal, College & Research Libraries, accessible for free after a six month embargo.

It’s not the first time, nor will it be the last, I’m sure. I boasted about Illinois’s basketball team beating Michigan State, only to see Illinois lose, big time, to Iowa — Iowa! of all teams — a few days later. Sigh. No more sports commentary.

Yesterday was Keegan’s 14th birthday. We are celebrating his birthday this coming weekend with a get together, but last night, Michele made him a special meal and we had cake and ice cream. Keegan was pretty down in the dumps in spite of this, mainly because he found out that a Gamecube game [...]

I couldn’t be more pleased that Illinois trounced Michigan State tonight. Go Illini! And some so-called expert at Sports Illustrated had the temerity to insist just last week that Michigan State was the logical favorite, the team to beat, in the Big 10. Hmmm, maybe that guy’s eating his words tonight.