Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
since we all read LISNews (and if you don’t – wtf?) and since Blake rocks all things LISHost (if you need a site hosted – check it out!), we should all subscribe to LISWire, which is:
a brand new idea from the guy behind LISNews & LISHost, Blake Carver. The plan is to allow member companies [...]
Sunday, April 27th, 2008
there’s a great meme making the rounds and i thought i’d jump on the bandwagon since some pretty rockin’ folk have uploaded their pix.
here’s what to do:
Post a picture from a source like FlickrCC or Flickr Creative Commons or make/take your own that captures what YOU are most passionate about for kids to learn about…and [...]
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
upgrading to WP 2.5 was totally painless. but the photo dropper plugin no longer seems happy. hmmm.
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
a bigger post will follow later this week (once i catch up on sleep and the job-that-pays-the-bills) but as of this morning, i am finished my master’s degree.
i’m a bit stunned that it’s suddenly over. leaving my job in vancouver to finish my undergrad so that i could go to library school – that all [...]
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
pecha kucha (pronounced “hootchie kootchie” by those of us who were tired of sounding like idiots) is a rockin’ great way to present at a conferences.
here’s the dirt: you get 20 seconds to talk about your slides, and 20 slides for your presentation. the slides advance automatically (well they’re supposed to – aaron was taking [...]
Sunday, April 6th, 2008
but it wasn’t totally uneventful. the security folk in Montreal weren’t sure what my XO laptop was so i got the “special” treatment – went into that little glass room and told them all about Nick Negroponte, MIT, the issues surrounding the north/south digital divide…
actually i just turned it on for them and tried to [...]
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
…like me.
i really hope i don’t act like a complete dork (a little dorkiness is de rigeur for me) at CiL2008 when i come face to face with librarians i think. are. the. bees. knees.
i’m heading down april 6-10 (returning in time for my presentation at the ABQLA conference on the 11th) and staying at [...]
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
so the new WP update is out and i’m dying to get it in place on this blog.
only i’m crazy busy trying to graduate.
so for the next two weeks, i’ll be running lame old WP 2.3.3. but soon…
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
so i’ve been working on a project for class which requires me to make a mini machinima (machine + cinema – think SL movie). since i tend to spend most of my life on a Mac (i have an Intel iMac though, and for work i occasionally need to run programs using the “evil side” [...]