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5 Things You Probably Don’t Know About Me

Sylvie Szafranski tagged me, and I’ve now contracted a meme that’s going around. If you’re not hot for Josh Trivia (and who is these days, what with the price of eggs and all?), you should skip this post and head straight to your favorite purveyor of fine delicacies.
1. I have a hard time not singing […]

My Wired Family

This weekend, my house fell eerily silent, even as my entire family communicated and collaborated with each other.
My daughter was chatting with me on IM. At the same time, she was chatting with my wife on IM. At the same time, my wife was chatting with me on IM. At the same time, my wife […]

Daddy’s Little Wired Girl

My daughter just used Gmail’s chat for the first time and IM’d me at work.
I’m kvelling right now.
EDIT: Now she’s trying out emoticons.

Like a Dog

I’m feeling awfully puny (as my branch manager would say), but I’m here at work anyway, because Mondays are the days when I have to most time on the reference desk, and there’s no one else to cover it (what with other staff taking days off and people in training sessions for our big ILS […]

By the Time I Get to California

One week from today, I’ll be winging my way to Monterey for Internet Librarian. Boy, am I excited!
And boy, am I glad today’s not the day I go, because a nasty cold has jumped on me like Jet Li. My head is stuffier than the 1926 graduating class of Harvard. Ugh.
EDIT: You can tell I’m […]

The Goblin Outside of the Library

My daughter has a tree and leaf project she’s working on for school, the kind of project my wife (a science and nature geek) loves helping with. I’m more of an indoors type of chap, but because I know it’s good for me to get out of the house (and the library) from time to […]

An Important Day

We take a break from the usual library woolgathering and shenanigans to say that two years ago today, I married the love of my life, and I’ve never been happier.

Happy anniversary, Julie! I love you.

Connections and Disconnections

If this is a somewhat rambling post, I apologize. I’m a bit discombobulated and I’m fighting back tears as I type this.
Next week, I’ll be co-running a session on Flickr and libraries at NEKLS Tech Day. I was brainstorming about it with Michael Porter, and he made this point: Flickr and other social web […]

Toys

Okay, so we broke down and bought a digital camera.

This Space is My Space

Okay, so I broke down and made my own MySpace page.