The weekend was fairly quiet; it seems like I spent most of it asleep (which, unfortunately, is not much of an exaggeration). On Saturday we left the house only once, to visit a nearby AT&T store where I tried, unsuccessfully, to determine whether our street address was eligible for DSL service. Long story, [...]

Happy 40th Birthday!  I love you and always will!Michele
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Almost every post Meredith Farkas writes provides plentiful food for thought.  She has a real talent for expressing her views and thoughts and for digging deeper into “big issues” than many others.  Recently she wrote about all of the success she has already had professionally and identifies some of the factors that have helped her [...]

Dear Steve,
In a few days you are going to be 40 years old. I’m sure at this stage of your life, you are asking yourself what this means and how you should handle this milestone. You may be asking yourself questions like, “Am I officially ‘old’ now?” or “Is it all downhill from [...]

While we have a local public library where we now live, it isn’t that great in terms of its collection and physical space, especially its children’s area. Why the library isn’t better, I don’t know, but it isn’t because of lack of a tax base or sufficient funding, or so it seems to me.
It [...]

With some sadness and lots of fanfare, Keegan and Tristan left with Grandpa and Grandma Jozwiak on a missions trip to Manitoulin Island, Ontario. This is what Keegan has done each year for the past eight years, but this year is Tristan’s first time. His grandparents promised him that he could go with [...]

Here are a few photos of flowers and such in our garden:

I haven’t read the nitty gritty details about the whole story, but I understand that Duke University IT folks decided this afternoon that heavy iPhone usage was not the culprit for their network problems, after all. Hm. This, in spite of the fact that various tech-related news outlets have been reporting that the [...]

This week I encountered a significant roadblock when trying to use OpenURL in a situation where it is a natural fit. Let me explain the scenario. A scientific researcher at the company where I work built an extensive bibliography of journal articles on a particular subject, and wants to publish that bibliography on [...]

This afternoon, Kathryn Wesley, NASIG Newsletter Editor-in-Chief, announced the availability of results of a site selection survey of NASIG members.  Check it out here.
Some initial thoughts:

I am happy to see a lot of interest in having NASIG return to Vancouver as a conference site.  The last time NASIG was in Vancouver was in the mid-1990s [...]