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If you hadn't noticed, I have begun to blog about various academic and semi-academic talks that I have had the pleasure of attending. While, yes this began as a course assignment, I have determined that I enjoy doing so, therefore I think I'll continue as a practice — though I likely won't blog every single… Continue reading GIS Day summary

So I'm about to start the annual Christmas card tradition, and it strikes me, yet again that I don't necessarily have accurate address information for everyone to whom I want to write. Indeed, a number of people have moved into new abodes, some in new cities, provinces, states and countries. Others, I have no idea… Continue reading Addresses please?

Instead of being productive and actually getting started on my php homework like I was supposed to be doing, I got stuck. Why? Because my wampserver isn't operating properly. It's supposed to open a page at http://localhost (essentially opening its www directory) but it won't open this page. All the problems I can think of… Continue reading My time is more valuable than this, really it is.

I don't know how many of you caught my status updates from this past week/weekend. I spent most of my time lazing about sleeping about 12 hours a day, and eating very little. My appetite has pretty much returned, and I feel pretty much back to normal now, with the slight exception that I cough… Continue reading Just a brief personal update 🙂

Today, Michael Olsson gave an excellent talk about Shakespeare, or rather about a study that he completed through interviews of 36 participants from Canada, Finland and the UK, who were all involved as actors, directors, designers or dramaturages with Shakespeare productions. Each semi-structured interview lasted on average about two hours but ranged in length from… Continue reading On Michael Olsson's talk

because I don't think I've done one of these either recently or ever… at least not effectively. Step 1: Put your music player on shuffle. Step 2: Post the first line from the first 40 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing. Step 3: Bold out the songs when someone guesses both artist and track… Continue reading One of those lyric song guessing game things

Okay, so I don't much enjoy being sick. Sure that's an understatement, but it's the truth. I simply don't have time to be less than 100%. Which is, of course, also ridiculous, but the truth. I'm far too busy for that — now I realize that it's my own fault that I am as busy… Continue reading Sick, with what seems to be a cold, but it's still a mild inconvenience!

Also in early October, I volunteered at the AACL (American Association of Corpus Linquistics) conference at the UofA (in Lister Centre). Since the organizers knew I was planning on attending Mark Davies' Humanities Computing Colloquium on the 9th, I was given the opportunity to guide him across campus to our talk and back to the… Continue reading On Mark Davies' Talks (Oct 9-10, 2009)

During the week of October 5-11, Dr. Howard D. White from Drexel University's College of Information Science was a Distinguished Visitor at the University of Alberta's School of Library and Information Studies. He presented three excellent lectures during this time period. The first lecture was on the use of author-centered citation data. This lecture explained… Continue reading On Dr. Howard D. White's first talk (SLIS Distinguished Visitor)

Check out my guest post on the LibraryRoad Blog! This time it is about my group's field trip to the Alberta Legislature Library. Many thanks again to Maria for creating this avenue for blog posting about our library adventures.