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 […]

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