These are my links for March 12th through March 29th:

News Spot -
How to Resolve a Conflict at Work - A brief but helpful outline of tips for resolving work-related conflicts. Most of this I’ve already known about but it is helpful to have them reiterated.
Thomson Topic Locator Version 1.2.0 -
Assembly Quest: My [...]

For years now, we have struggled to get the three youngest kids to stay in their beds throughout the night. Brinley is the worst. So when she stayed in her bed all night Thursday, Michele and I made a big deal out of it the next morning when she woke up. She [...]

This is the sweet face of our Jack Russell, Maddie.

These are my links for March 1st through March 11th:

Install Wordpress on a USB stick - I am a big fan of using USB flash drives for portable applications like Firefox, Flock, and now WordPress. MPOW locks down PCs to such an extent that this is sometimes the only way someone can use the [...]

One of the things I am responsible for is my library’s SFX service. I am a huge SFX fan and one of the reasons for my enthusiasm is that there are so many interesting things one can do with SFX. Today I stumbled across an example SFX services window customized for the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft. [...]

How bizarre to find out yesterday that another Steve Oberg is now actively blogging. Reading his profile gives me the impression that we might have a few more things in common than just our first and last name…
Link to The Thought

Although its usefulness is still uncertain to me, I am currently exploring a new social web tool called Twitter, thanks to a recommendation by Steven Cohen of Library Stuff.
Link to Twitter

Michele was feeling pretty well this weekend so yesterday, we decided to take advantage of that by doing something fun together as a family. We went to the Shedd Aquarium. Here is a video clip taken in the temporary lizard exhibit:
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Great article (found via Steven Cohen’s Library Stuff blog) on LibraryThing. While some competitors have recently entered the same type of niche (such as Shelfari), noone does it better than Tim Spalding, Abby Blachly, and others at LibraryThing.
Link to A Cozy Book Club, in a Virtual Reading Room - New York Times

I consider myself a pretty techno-centric guy. I am a pretty fast learner when presented with new technologies but right now I am stumped. Yesterday a new combo DVD burner/player plus VHS recorder came via UPS and I was excited to get it set up and running. However, several hours later I still [...]