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View Article  When and Why Did Libraries Stop Being Silent?
The Books sub-Reddit on the Reddit web site gets asked a question about why libraries are no longer quiet.  Interesting to read some of the responses from the book-lover types who hang out in this area even though there aren't too many unexpected revelations in the answers provided (except that some libraries - in the UK possibly? - rent DVD's rather than loaning them for free) and many reply in terms of their experiences with academic rather than public libraries.

[Edit: oh, one other revelation from near the end of the thread - Reddit has a sub-Reddit just for libraries.  And...subscribe!]

View Article  Music Monday - "I got a letter from the government the other day/Opened it and read it/It said they were suckers/They wanted me for their army or whatever"
When I was in England in 1995, this song (and the album it appeared on) were consistently rated at or near the top of the "best of" lists for that year by the NME, Melody Maker and Q.
View Article  Has It Been A Week Already?
A detailed analysis of the four seconds leading up to Sidney Crosby's gold medal winning goal at the Olympics. 

(via Reddit)
View Article  Saturday Snap - Getting Ready For Our New Flooring
Everybody pitches in!



View Article  Friday Fun Link - What Do Today's Parents Need To Know That Previous Ones Didn't? (March 7, 2010)
Seriously, I think I could start dedicating a day to an Ask MetaFilter Question o' the Day.  (I did ask a category for MetaFilter recently so that's part way there already!) 

This one was particularly relevant - what things does a new parent today have to know about/worry about that previous generations didn't
View Article  The Saskatchewan Party Government - Now With Over 100% Incompetence!
100% is a good mark if you're taking an accounting class, not so good when it reflects how wrong you were with your budget predictions. 

I wrote about this when
our Saskatchewan Party government was out by 95% with their potash reveue projections late last year.  But man, it takes a special kind of stupid to be so wrong with your projections that you end up being *over* 100% wrong and actually end up having to pay back a couple hundred million dollars you were paid in advance against resource royalties. 

If anybody out there reading this really thinks it doesn't matter who you vote for (or even if you vote) and that all politicians are the same, I hope you realise that's not nearly the case. 

I try not to get into politics with family very often but an elderly relative raised the subject a few months back.  She was pumping up Brad Wall and running down the NDP so I pointed out what was at the time 95% error in the Sask Party's potash projections.  She countered with this interesting bit of logic: "at least Brad Wall's a good speaker."  I was like "well, then let's get him a TV show because he really really sucks at being a Premier!" 


But that kinda sums up the battle the NDP has for itself going into the next election - you've got the Sask Party with a leader who's (perceived to be) young, telegenic, a big football fan with a GW Bush-like capacity to make people think they'd just like to have a beer with him/that he's just a regular guy/he's a good speaker who's out there pounding the pavement to promote Saskatchewan.  

Hopefully people will take off the blinders and think just a wee little bit about how screw-ups like this one do so much damage to our province and our people.  Hmm, maybe time to give that aunt a follow-up call! 
View Article  What Do You Notice?
AskMetaFilter frowns on ChatFilter questions but they tend to be the most interesting to me.  Here's one on "What do you notice?" which has all kinds of answers from "when people are polite" to "clouds" to "typos" (or is that typo's? )
View Article  "Saskatchewan is used to leading, trying new things and being co-operative" - SILS officially launched!
The Saskatchewan Library & Information Services Consortium (SILS) which will bring together ten separate library systems across the province plus the government agency responsible for library services officially launched this morning at RPL's George Bothwell branch

Four systems are live already (Saskatoon Public Library, Palliser which is based in Moose Jaw, Southeast which is based in Weyburn and Regina Public Library) which together, represent over 50% of the province's population.  The other systems will join by this fall creating a common user experience anywhere from Conquest to Climax.  (Sorry - I had to.  Can you believe that I used that actual line in some promotional copy once?  It's true! )  


It's not quite the same "Where were you when?" moment that winning a gold medal in hockey is.  But for many of the province's librarians, trustees and others involved in the process, it's the closest thing we'll have in the library world.  Pretty amazing stuff! 
View Article  Music Monday - "We are the 'what' in 'what's new'."
The Olympics are over and the reactions are all over the place from claims from a perhaps unexpected source (Dave Bidini, not the National Post) that Canada has been changed for the better forever to claims that the debt will weigh down on our citizens for decades

Anyhow, for today's Music Monday, I thought I'd re-visit one of the most pleasant surprises from the Opening Ceremonies two weeks ago - a slam poet captures Canada...


View Article  Dear World: Canada will be closed from 12-3pm (PST) Sunday afternoon.
We're all going to church! ;-)
My web site dedicated to four great Canadian singer-songwriters (but currently only featuring guitar tab for two of them - Fred Eaglesmith and Hawksley Workman.)

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