Category: Miscellaneous
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Road trip survival – children’s music you’ll actually enjoy too!
Absolutely no relevance to libraryland, but as a public service I thought I’d throw you the names of several artists your children will love to listen to in the car, and that you’ll actually appreciate too! Wiggles – NOT! They Might Be Giants – not only their three wonderful kids albums (123 and ABC are…
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TeamViewer for Desktop Sharing
Haven’t had a chance to try this, but TeamViewer, free for non-commercial use, offers desktop sharing for both Windows and Mac. They claim 10 million users – wonder if they were known as something else before?
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Firefox 3 Coming Tuesday, June 17th
As noted at the Mozilla Developer Center, Firefox 3 will be officially released on Tuesday. They’re hoping to set a Guinness World Record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours – will you be helping? Here’s a long list of what’s new in this release.
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Wikitannica
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that the Encyclopaedia Britannica is “about to launch a new initiative” that will allow users to participate in the EB Wikipedia-style. From the press release, “A complete redesign, editing tools, and incentive programs will give expert contributors and users the means to take part in the further improvement of…
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Oh yeah, almost forgot – I got a new job!
Work life’s been such a whirlwind I forgot to let y’all know that as of May 1 I’m now officially the Public Services Systems Librarian here at the University of Calgary. I’ve been filling the role since last October and have been having a blast, so I’m really tickled that I get to stay in…
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‘Abortion’ is a stop word!
Holy crap! Article from The Chronicle of Higher Ed describing how the word ‘abortion’ is now a stopword in the Popline database. Meaning you can’t search for it. That’s insane! oooh, except if you go now, you CAN search on that word. Yay for the interwebs! Technorati Tags: censorship
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OvidSP Platform Enhancements
The Krafty Librarian reports that in response to customer feedback, OvidSP will be introducing some platform enhancements on Monday, March 31. Looks like some good tweaks, though no mention of the ability to tweak the OvidSP Tip box. Technorati Tags: OvidSP
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The Sub Prime meltdown explained (twice)
Two different ways to explain the same weird situation – which one works better for you? PBS NewsHour (thanks for the link Dad)The Subprime Primer, explained by Stick Men (contains potentially offensive language) Hope not too many of you are directly caught in this mess :-/