Family Man Librarian

Michele isn’t feeling well this a.m. so we won’t be going to church.  Keegan stayed overnight at a friend’s house to work on a big school project, so things around here are a bit more quiet than usual.  Today is my beautiful wife’s birthday! so that makes it an extra special day.
I’ve been watching a [...]

I’ve been thinking for a while now about writing down some of the things I knew or experienced when I was younger in comparison to what my kids experience or will experience.
Here is what I could think of (there are lots more that could be added):
Kiwi fruit — I can remember when we [...]

Last night I watched the 20 minute introductory movie for the iPhone. Pretty interesting! (Although the presenter was, to me, a little freaky. Just personal opinion.) The amount of hype and attention given to the iPhone is overwhelming and threatens to actually turn me off of it. Nevertheless I was [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I’ve finally dipped my toes into a couple of much-hyped social web services: MySpace, and Skype. Actually I’ve had a MySpace account for several months but haven’t really used it because, frankly, I have little use for what seems like a service that recreates the high school cliques experience in an online format. [...]