Monthly Archives: October 2006

I was playing around with some new ideas earlier this week; that’s usually a sign that my research brain is swinging from asleep to awake and hollering. In this case, it was prompted by my having to proctor tests without … Continue reading →

This appeared in my mailbox tonight: not spam, so much as the template for spam. Subject: Never-seen {SPUR_2} Take pleasure from Dear user. {SPUR_1} {SPUR_3} {SPUR_4} Find what you need: {SPUR_DOMAIN} Come on in and get it all very cheap! … Continue reading →

I am drunk on the power of networked library systems. While they won’t quite deliver books to my door, the results are generally close enough.

So remember how last month I posted about iTunes 7? This post was presumably sucked in by a search-engine spider (as all blog posts ultimately are), and was thus found by a reporter for the Wall Street Journal. The reporter … Continue reading →