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May 2008 - Posts

  • mobile phone services that make me happy

    Over the past few weeks, I’ve found myself using two services a lot on my mobile phone, and when I talk about them at conferences people tend to “oooh” and “ahhh”…so I thought I’d post about them here, as well...
  • creative constraints

    I’m attending a really great NSF-funded workshop on Productive Play this weekend, and Thomas Malaby, who’s sitting next to me, just cited a lovely quote from Igor Stravinsky. I don’t want to forget it, so the blog is the obvious place...
  • summer fiction plans

    Lest you think I plan to spend my summer immersed entirely in professional reading, here’s my fiction reading list at the moment: Daemon, by Leinad Zeraus (read each word backwards for his _real_name), which was highly recommended by Joi Ito. This...
  • occupational benefits

    One of the very best parts of being a university professor is being able to get free books from many publishers. It makes sense for them, because I’m unlikely to assign a book to my students if I haven’t had a chance to review it carefully...
  • minitex conference keynote

    I gave a keynote this morning at the Minitex ILL Conference in St. Paul, and I've uploaded the powerpoint file to Slideshare. Unfortunately, Slideshare doesn't show transitions, so a number of the slides are messed up where I have multiple images...
  • you go, girlfriend

    Wow. Just…wow. ome people will one day try to convince you that what I’ve done here is some sort of sickening betrayal of your childhood, and what those people fail to recognize is that I am doing the exact opposite. This is the glorification...
  • coming up for air

    Last week, my 95-year-old grandmother suffered a series of small strokes. This week has been a bit of blur what with hospital visits, social worker conversations, research on everything from stroke rehabilitation to long-term care insurance (for me, not...
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