Off the Mark

I would like to extend my heartfelt apologies to Steven M. Cohen of Library Stuff.
While I did not mean to act badly, I did so.  As Steven said in his comment at the previous post, my comments were a bit harsh.  I did not intend them to be.  But the simple fact is that I [...]

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Maybe I’m just being snarky, although that is certainly not my intention.  But I am very tired, it is nearing the end of the semester, I had to spend Turkey Day alone, I am involved in trying to craft a student body response to a situation here that is extremely political, and honestly, I am [...]

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Today my July 2005 archive page turned up #8 on a search  at search.yahoo.com for:concrete lesson on how to teach kindergarteners with separation anxiety
Certainly a topic I frequently write about!  Aren’t unqualified keyword searches wonderful?  You have no idea what you’re missing Mr. Gorman.  </sarcasm>
It has really been amazing the things of mine that have [...]

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If blogging about blogging is called metablogging, what do you call dreaming about blogging?  Complete with trackbacks and comments.  Or is it blogging while dreaming?
Another critical question is whether it is even dreaming?  And the practical question.  What am I doing up at 4 AM blogging?  Well now.  That last one is the easy one [...]

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As much as I need to get away from this machine and relax for bed, I also need to end the day on a more positive note.
The newest (December) Cites & Insights is out.  It is a must-read as usual.  I’d also like to thank Walt for the kind words.  And remind him that we [...]

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Heaven
is a disaster.
And you won’t get there
any faster.
Wagner, Kurt. “the saturday option” on Lambchop’s what another man spills.
In case you weren’t up to reading all of The Unbearable Lightness of Being and morality and A Nation Beyond Forgiveness, or you can’t see the connection, I am going to try to tie them together [...]

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Oops!  That little bit of CSS that I added to the last post appears to have affected every post.  Not exactly what I wanted.  Dang.
Oh, it is only when they are on the main page together.  And probably also once it is archived it will affect all the others on the November page.  But it [...]

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This one is going to be long!  It is a book review essay on Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being that I wrote for a grad Sociology Seminar in Sociological Institutions on the topic of Modern Morality, Fall 2001.
Here is what I said when I posted the Word doc to my website which almost no [...]

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From E-LIS (and, yes, they have an RSS feed):
Shaheen, Maqsood Ahmad (2004) "The library of the future." In SciTech World (Saturday, September 25), Daily Dawn.
This is a short, half-page article that, although written by a reference librarian, is as bad as any newspaper article.
The author does make a few decent points.  "Instead of asking whether [...]

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Somewhere around 2 weeks ago I started reading Arthur Silber at Once Upon A Time….  I really don’t remember how I came across his blog, but that isn’t relevant.  He seems fairly astute and I look forward to reading more of his prolific writings.
His post today made me scream and cry in rage, frustration [...]

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