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an inspired view on the cozy relationship between google and firefox

don't know a thing about the browser yet, but it totally rocks that Scott McCloud has done the comic intro.

congratulations walter!

"It is estimated that the CO2 emissions of the ICT industry alone exceeds the carbon output of the entire aviation industry. The ICT industry and research community has a collective responsibility to help address this problem." From Bill St. Arnaud, this is a great blog on a huge issue for us IT types.

rima++

the site of the 2003 Zap Your Pram conference and my home for the next week

from pei tech wizard and access conference alumni peter rukavina, who i am catching up with in 2 days

helping to keep the eyes of the world on zimbabwe

spotted on Acts of Volition, the 2003 incarnation was amazing and you can't beat the location

blocked by google books outside of the us, but full text available from within canada from IA, yet more evidence of why the internet archive rocks

google books is way too timid on this issue

winner of heritage award seems somewhat familiar :-)

commodity_cloud_hosting++

though the statistics and "doom and gloom" of observers of the newspaper industry are greatly misunderstood (and highly specific to north america), the experimentation idea is well worth exploring

love the "drunk, irate customer" example

at least canada voted against it

also has link to a NYT article on Red Hat that appeared on march 27

well i never thought i would see federated search be highlighted in The ServerSide site, but this is where the announcement appeared

green computing lives

only peter rukavina would come up with such a delightful workshop description, i esp. love this line: what if we wore our OPAC like socks, rather than visiting it like church?

the pdf of the darin barney hart house lecture, which is linked at jon udell's blog, great insight into the relationships between technology and citizenship

one of the access conference originals returns to hacking library systems, this time with a php class to share

from the amazing folks at the Tactical Technology Collective

kudos to mita for bringing this together

one of the more thoughtful reflections on the recent upheaval in the rails community

especially interesting from an NGC and what-to-do-about-MARC point of view

The *2nd* BC PINES pilot site goes live - a good day for Evergreen in every way

Congratulations to the Evergreen folks! - "$50,000 to the Georgia Public Library Service of the University System of Georgia (Atlanta, GA: www.georgialibraries.org) for the development and release of the Evergreen open-source library automation system (www.open-ils.org)."

"That drunken, worthless character, known as Jack Hopps, ought to get another three months in Owen Sound Jail. On Sunday last he hired a horse and a rig and drove to Eugenia, where he soon got well-filled with fire-water. While in a beastly state of intoxication, he drove over to the residence of his father, who is a respectful and honest man. Here he conducted himself in the most disgraceful manner." - look what libel has done to today's newspaper reporting

"Ruby is probably the most powerful language that you can be paid money to write in"

a place to start for tracking changes on bib records?

a metadata solution for sharing sports data, and to think we worry about frbr

if you grew up with canadian television, you will appreciate this, esp. the fate of casey and finnegan

yet another possible lib tech conference activity

good news everyone!

"Anyway, OLPC in their wisdom, have decided to make Write (which employs libAbiword,) save to ODF by default." I haven't found a confirmation of this on the OLPC wiki but this would so rock if true!

another brilliant move from google

From Australia, a big wmv file but well done.

If you were a C.S. student in the early 1980s, VMS was likely part of your life. A pretty cool OS for its time and it still seems to be in use.

The first of many migrations in British Columbia

and i have already ordered my new mac with leopard

i don't know how java would fare with this hardware, but it would be cool to increase the number of development environments for these devices

jon++

from someone who sold a modula-2 compiler for a while

an interesting extension of tag clouds from glen newton

few tears will be shed about this development

from my office neighbour, an interesting review of "When the Press Fails: Political Power and the New Media from Iraq to Katrina"

effective combination of images with a classic patti griffin song

just like cobol

incredible