I am a contributor to another blog, for the Special Library Association’s Information Technology Division. This morning I became aware of a really embarrassing situation: I found out that two personal posts were published to the SLA IT Division’s blog from my contributor account. They were posted accidentally by my two littlest [...]

I’ve been awake since about 5 am. I wish I was still fast asleep but our golden retriever, Champ, had an upset stomach and desperately needed to go out. I am enjoying the solitude though but hope eventually I can get some more sleep.
As is the case almost every Saturday the question is, what will [...]

The news that Newsgator was giving away its software suite for individuals — including FeedDemon, NetNewsWire, Newsgator Go, and others — gave me the incentive to give their offerings a try.  I have been a loyal fan of Google Reader (or Bloglines — hey, I’m fickle) for several years and didn’t see any substantial benefit [...]

These are my links for June 6th through June 11th:

COinS Generator - “This tool will take bibliographic metadata for a citation and produce a “COinS”, i.e. a snippet of HTML that can be placed on a webpage and processed by web tools.”
Scopus - A multidisciplinary database of citations to articles in the life, health, physical, [...]

 
Wish I could try out this new “location aware”  photo service from Yahoo! called Zurfer.  It allows you to receive photos taken by others based on your location.  It won’t download to my Blackberry 8700c, however; I just tried. 

OK, this is really geeky, but I was very excited to discover this a.m. that my bank finally went live with its mobile banking capabilities.  I’m not sure but it might be the first nationwide bank to roll out such a feature.  It’s worthwhile to say at this point, also, that the forward-looking, easy-to-use, FREE [...]

These are my links for May 2nd through May 14th:

Ex Libris - Incident Report for Endeavor Products -
ELUNA: Ex Libris Users of North America - The user group website for North American customers of Ex Libris.
Letters to Christians in the U.S.A. - This is a post on a blog maintained by Brian McLaren containing some [...]

A lot has been written in other blogs, in conference reports, in articles and elsewhere about the growing technology gap between the “haves” and the “have nots.”  It definitely exists; what is debatable is how rapidly the gap is increasing.  I was interested to note on a TV monitor in my company’s cafeteria a brief [...]

Last week I bought a refurbished Blackberry 8700c from Cingular. I
wanted it for a number of reasons yet wondered if it would live up to
my expectations. I was worried, for example, if I would be able to
work with a thumb keyboard–the centerpiece of the device. While I am
still getting used to it and still don’t [...]

Many people have said that handheld computing is going to be huge; that cell phones or so-called “smart” phones will become increasingly powerful and feature-rich. But I have been much less than impressed with what I have seen thus far. That is, until I read about the iPhone introduced earlier this week by [...]