From the category archives:

opinion

Amen

13 October 2008

Go read this comic.
http://xkcd.com/488/
Consider that the pile of CDs that you have been hording is insurance (for a little while…)
Now where did I put that turn-table?…

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Pellon (sewing products) is not well served by it’s web presence.

19 August 2008

BTW finding on-line information for Pellon sewing products is difficult. When I was working on the previous post I wanted to put in a link to the product page for the interfacing that I was talking about. Clarity and all that…
Not so easy it turns out.
www.pellon.com is the home page of Finnish company that produces [...]

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the survey says…

28 May 2008

Right now the Library Research Service is conducting a survey on the worth of an MLIS. (I got in mine 1996.)
For the final comment I had to sum up my thoughts about my experince in the little box at the bottom of the survey. I said:
As a professional degree an MLIS is terribly perishable. The [...]

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the value of free speech

27 May 2008

Mostly I find the comments on the larger blogs to be so much me-to-ism but this afternoon I came across this comment on a post about a silly anti-non-Christian (yes i made that word up) advertisement used by a California car dealership that was in boing-boing.
One of the greatest gifts of truly understanding the notion [...]

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