(Thanks to Jon Udell, whose insightful posts are the only reason this would ever have occurred to me.)
I live in Waterloo, Ontario, a city with weekly residential waste collection. My collection day is Monday. In the warm months, there's an additional biweekly (that's every 2 weeks, not twice a …
A meme, from No Magic Here.
Today's challenge, the BBC Top 100.
Instructions: Bold those books you’ve read in their entirety, italicize the ones you started but didn’t finish or read an excerpt.
It's fashionable to complain about the IT department at the Day Job, but sometimes we get pretty good service. I had occasion to contact them today for two unrelated problems. The first, an issue with a Lotus Notes upgrade, was quickly resolved over the phone. The other problem involved hardware …
I'm an avid reader, but not an avid collector of objects, so I prefer to get books from the library. As you might imagine, I was initially thrilled to discover the greasemonkey user script version of Jon Udell's LibraryLookup bookmarklet. The ability to visit web pages about books and be …
For a while now, I've been dithering over getting LibraryHippo its own domain name. I hadn't, mostly because I'm a little lazy and cheap and afraid of the domain registration process. Yesterday at the Day Job, a co-worker (whose name just might be an anagram of Yen Waster), on learning …
I won't talk about every book I read here - that's what Goodreads is for. However, every once in a while something exceptional's bound to come up, and I'll be compelled to mention it here. This is one such thing. Anyone who's talked to me this year will have heard how …
I was listening to CBC's Ideas Podcast today, specifically to You Are "Pre-Diseased", Part 2 (which aired on 18 January and is available for download until mid-February, in case you want to listen) when I heard a new acronym that's relevant to my Day Job.
Victim Of M …
It's a little late, but I'm participating in Tarek Ziadé's Python Meme (via Richard Jones):
Google App Engine. I'd known of it before, but hadn't tried it until early this year when I started to work …