Having a December 1st birthday, I'm particularly enamoured of Advent Calendars. (I know it's approximately 24 days too late for this post.) My mom can't quite remember from year to year that I'd love for my birthday package to include one (preferably with chocolate, but I don't want to push my luck). [...]

Is there anything more wonderful than a snow day off (Brian pointed out that snow days are better than calling in well.)? Yes! A snow day off spent baking two, yes TWO cakes for a best girlfriend's 30th birthday/Christmas party AND making a delicious mexican soup for lunch (and dinner… for the [...]

A colleague just send The Catalog Department to me. I think the idea of being 'passionate enough for text' is beautiful and true. I was also just discussing the pitfalls of IM and communicating with it. How does it change the idea of and value we assign to 'face time'? He [...]

Yahoo recently acquired del.icio.us and Flickr (ads are already starting to appear… sigh.), AND this morning I sit down to a message that konfabulator is also now also part of the Yahoo empire. This is okay, I suppose, as long as they don't bundle a bunch of s**t with the downloads as they do [...]

I just saw audible.com's new ad campaign, dontread.org. I'm flabbergasted that they saw fit to spoof ALA's Celebrity Read campaign. (Perhaps I should say that I'm home sick today, so I'm slower on the news that usual. And thanks to Brian for pointing it out. After my initial round of obligatory indignation [...]

So, my uncle is an economist and he arrived back from the World Summit on the Information Society just before Thanksgiving. After dinner (and a number of glasses of wine) I gently questioned him about the Information Society Summit that I, as an information professional, had no idea about and had heard no buzz [...]