We had a really fun time together with Michele’s family last week on the 4th of July. Below are some photos from that day showing the kids playing in the sprinkler.

TagFetch Searches YouTube, Flickr and More
This new service sounds quite interesting. I haven’t really tried it out yet, though. One big missing piece here is LibraryThing. I hope that someday the extensive amount of tags used in LibraryThing will be included in such metasearch engines.

LibraryThing > Our poor moose
It’s taken me a while to do but I wanted to comment on this interesting post from the folks at LibraryThing about a moose incident near their building. I thought it was incredible that a moose had wandered into Portland, Maine! I’ve been there (and elsewhere throughout the state) [...]

This song from Casting Crowns has developed special meaning for me during a time of great uncertainty and discouragement:
I was sure by nowThat You would have reached downAnd wiped our tears awayStepped in and saved the dayBut once again, I say “Amen”, and it’s still rainingAs the thunder rollsI barely hear Your whisper through the [...]

Information Wants To Be Free » Blog Archive » A big fat done stamp (and some advice)
Meredith Farkas does it again. She writes about finishing her book project — EARLY, mind you. I am so envious. Why? Because as I’ve mentioned before, I am a procrastinator by habit. I admire [...]

blogwithoutalibrary.net » state of the library blogosphere, 2006
Amanda Etches-Johnson of blogwithoutalibrary.net has produced some interesting graphs about the state of the library blogosphere. (When writing this, I just noticed that she didn’t use the term “biblioblogosphere” — thank goodness.) Of particular interest to me was the statistic that 12% of academic library blogs [...]

Marc Meola from ACRLog writes about the Wall St. Journal article on LibraryThing. What stood out to me in his post was the phrase “Maybe I’m just being grumpy…” I am glad he wrote that, admitting that sometimes we who blog can sometimes just be in a particularly negative frame of mind. [...]