…and that’s all I’m doing. Swear. I have decided that orange is now my (in public) signature color so I changed the theme. Well, pale pink is really the color of my heart and the color that makes me happy but I don’t have time to make my own pale pink theme right now. The [...]
One of my favorite technology blogs, Make Use Of, shocked me this morning with a post about book review websites. I had to read the introductory paragraph twice to make sure that this post wasn’t a joke of some kind. The author claims that the reading of books is dying and cajoles us into making [...]
All IT staff who work with student systems need to take classes in how write directions. They simply bury the information the student needs in dense, dull text. So, the student is frustrated because they can’t use the system they need to use for class, then they have to literally wade through IT’s self-absorbed ass [...]
Ok, I had to bring this topic back because I have found that I cannot, or should not, change the name of my blog to be less representative of my work as a librarian. I like being a librarian. I worked really hard to become a librarian. Like many people who are entering the mid-stage [...]
“Success is peace of mind attained only through self-satisfaction in knowing that you made the effort to do the best of which you are capable.” I really like this. Mr. Wooden also makes a distinction between reputation and character that is such a healthy approach to way we think about ourselves. TED talks rock.
I find it a little scary and depressing that we need a whole sub-genre of Happy in the area of personal growth. Have people forgotten how?
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about change. The concept of it. The doing of it. How change happens. How to cope when Change comes, does its thing to your life and takes off again. Change has occurred in copious amounts at my place of work during the last few weeks, some of it not [...]
I haven’t posted in a long time but I listened to Richard Trumka of the AFL-CIO today and was compelled to share with the 6 people who follow my blog. Trumka is a powerful public speaker and could probably get people charged up about cottage cheese but his message in this speech made cry big [...]
The GMAC people won their law suit against ScoreTop. They won 2.something million dollars, the list of all the poor schmucks that used the ScoreTop service as a study tool for the GMAT, plus rights to the ScoreTop domain name. Now GMAC is going to cancel the GMAT scores of some of the people who [...]
Believe it or no, I was bored this weekend so I watched television for like 4 whole hours. One of the things I sat through while trying to read was The Andromeda Strain on A&E. The movie was just so-so. I was more taken by the commercials for programs on other channels. I was most [...]