[Update: I forgot, dumb me, to link to the original post. Fixed.]
In a Slashdot posting read this a.m., entitled “Why Everyone Loves Apple,” I found some words that I think are very relevant to libraries, technology, debates about Library 2.0, Web 2.0, you name it. Here is the particular sentence I found to be so [...]

Karen Schneider’s post on the ALA Techsource blog, “How OPACs Suck, Part 1: Relevance Rank (Or the Lack of It),” is a rant by a librarian who either presents a foregone conclusion due to incomplete research, or one who reaches a conclusion out of misunderstanding. Unfortunately such rants are fairly common. Karen complains [...]

Well, Christmas is over. I’m tired out and so is Michele. We are still in our PJs and it’s almost noon! The kids are playing with their new toys on the living room floor, recovering from late nights, sugar highs, and excessive excitement. I’m listening to some of the songs I [...]

Keegan and I are at home by ourselves this weekend because Michele and the younger kids went with her family to her uncle’s funeral. Uncle Donny died last week from an unknown form of cancer. I wish we could have gone to the funeral but Keegan had a test at school yesterday morning [...]

I was excited by the news today that a new video iPod is now available from Apple. I can dream of some day being able to own one of them. I still like the one I’ve got (a 4 Gb iPod Mini), but I’d like to have the battery life and storage capacity [...]

At the risk of sounding like a mindless Google-ogue (because I like Google Reader and Gmail), let me write some good things about Google Desktop. One good thing is that it provides me with a quick way to find files on my PC and any shared network drives that I specify. That’s an [...]

ACM Queue - A Call to Arms - Long anticipated, the arrival of radically restructured database architectures is now finally at hand.
This article on the need for further research and development into new database architectures is pretty interesting. Although somewhat technical in parts, I think I got the gist of it. I found [...]

Is desktop search secure?
I love Google Desktop Search. I use it every day. I particularly like the fact that it now supports indexing of Thunderbird. I wouldn’t use it if I was in a purely OS X environment, because the search in Mail, iTunes, and Sherlock in general work so much faster [...]

Tonight I proved the wonders of technology. I video chatted (is that a word?) with my wife and kids in the Chicago area, then video chatted afterward with my family in east central Illinois. All of this done from the comfort of my own couch at home in Indiana. Made possible by [...]

BBC NEWS | Business | Apple Macs: Objects of devotion — This is quite an interesting article, worth reading whether you are an Apple devotee or not. The author really hits on something, that Macs may indeed be better than their Wintel counterparts, but a lot of “it” is just a sociological phenomenon. Yeah, I [...]