Monthly Archives: March 2005

spring fever, wireless town

29 Mar 05 – 5:11 pm

I’ve got my office torn apart for remodeling, and I haven’t had my computer hooked up for about 48 hours. I can hardly believe I haven’t started frothing at the mouth. We don’t have television or cable either, so we’ve been nicely disconnected for the past few days.
At any rate, [...]

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money –> mouth

29 Mar 05 – 11:51 am

In the post leading communities through info technologies I mentioned that I’d report back on the results of some advanced type classes at the library. Last week I held a class titled “Weblogs and Really Simple Sundication (RSS)” at the library.
Only 4 people attended. This, however, was a good size. Noone [...]

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language

28 Mar 05 – 4:21 pm

One of the best moments at Computers in Libraries 2005 for me was when I was completely stumped by a question from the audience during our IM presentation. I was talking about the shortened version of English that can make up the majority of an IM conversation. I had the image of [...]

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sms numbers

28 Mar 05 – 4:09 pm

There isn’t a full report, but PEW Internet /American Life has a ‘PIP Comment’ out titled

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you are looking at a cult/occult website

21 Mar 05 – 6:53 pm

[update: rochelle get’s it all right in her post Cult of Ranganathan Busted by SonicWALL. p.s. i wonder anyone know off the top of their head how i get this site unlisted? if not, i’ll look back and report.]
Good morning all.
I visited Panera* earlier today to get some coffee and wireless. [...]

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