The title refers to a much earlier post I wrote when we lived in Indiana. Now that we are back in Illinois and in our new house, I thought I’d write about wildlife sightings we’ve had over the course of the past few weeks.Last week Michele noticed a ground hog (or is it a [...]

CNN.com - Police: Teen admits to highway shootings - Jul 25, 2006
I was pretty surprised to read that a 17 year old from Gaston, Indiana, is the chief suspect in recent sniper shootings on I-69 and I-65. Gaston is only a few miles south of where we used to live and we drove [...]

I’ve mentioned many times that I have close ties to my alma mater, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, so forgive me for yet another mention of them. I have been meaning for a while to mention here that they are providing some nice social web functionality. Included in this is a library-specific [...]

It has always bothered me when a link to the library of a particular organization is not prominently featured on the home page of its website. This is particularly bothersome for educational institutions given the de facto role of the library as a centerpiece of learning. In fact when I browse the web [...]

This is old news by now but I wanted to briefly mention that NASIG has transformed its Newsletter into a blog. Very nice! I can remember the days when the Newsletter was a print only publication, one of the few that I read front to back. Then for many years there was [...]

I was thinking lately about MySpace, Facebook, Flickr, and other social networking sites. There has been a lot of positive buzz about libraries carving out a foothold in these online spaces as a way to market themselves and to make themselves more accessible particularly to younger generations. This a.m. I saw another positive [...]

A dream came true for us earlier this week. We finalized the purchase of a new house and moved into it on Monday. Most of the essential stuff is here but a lot of our belongings have yet to be moved from the rental house we lived in for the past year. [...]

The title of this post is definitely tongue-in-cheek. A joke, really. Seriously, though, another statistic that many people find very important is the number of people who subscribe to their blog’s feed. More than just about any other measure, the number of subscribers to a blog’s feed gives a sense of how [...]

I decided to look at some website traffic statistics today for the period July 1, 2005 to June 30, 2006. Here is what I found:
Number of Unique Visitors: 16,053
Total Number of Visitors: 55,699
Total Number of Hits: 256,267
Those are just some gross figures, but they are surprising to me, nevertheless.
Here is where [...]

We have been going through a very difficult and uncertain time regarding purchase of a new house. We were supposed to have closed on the purchase a month ago but couldn’t because of a number of last minute snags with regard to the financing. We didn’t know for sure that we would even [...]