I’m lucky to own an iPod Touch but I can’t help longing for an iPhone 3G too The main difference between them, for me, is that the iPhone 3G can truly be an “always on” device in terms of Internet access because of its dual wifi/cell capabilities. The iPod Touch can only [...]

I just finished upgrading to WordPress 2.5. Pretty easy-peasy! I love the much-improved admin interface. Still trying to figure out what all the new goodies are, but already I see a lot to like.

If you’re one of the small group of people who regularly reads my blog, you may be wondering what’s going on here right now. Well, after several years with one web hosting company, last night I switched to a different one. So far I am quite pleased with the decision. However, I [...]

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I have randomly selected 5 of you below to be tagged and I hope that you will similarly publish this post in your blog. You will have to tag 5 other bloggers and just keep adding on to the list. (Do not replace, just keep on adding! Yes we hope it will be [...]

This weekend I got into a bread-baking craze.  My whole family loves bread and nothing — really, it’s true — beats good, homemade bread.  I’ve always enjoyed making it but the time spent doing that has been infrequent for several years.  We have an old bread machine that we’ve used for a long time and [...]

I’m a big Zotero fan.  Anyone who has access to the Firefox web browser and needs or wants to keep track of bibliographies, websites, and other material used for research should use it instead of the bloated, overly expensive, difficult to use commercial citation managers such as Reference Manager, RefWorks, ProCite, and the like.  Zotero [...]

I have been sick for a week now and I am sick of it. I wish there was a way that I could build up my immune system. All of the kids except Keegan have been sick — for the second time in as many weeks — as well.In other news, in the [...]

The evening of the day that version 2.3 of WordPress was released, I took the plunge and installed it. I have had few problems. I can’t say enough positive things about the Wordpress Automatic Upgrade plugin. It makes the task of keeping my blog software updated much easier.

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 [...]

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 [...]