Thoughts for Today

I went to the library today and dropped off a book. I really didn’t stay like I usually do. Then I went to my local produce store and bought some watermelon and grapes. It was very nice out, cool and crisp. When I got back I wrote the essay on Deep [...]

Stick To Drawing Comics Monkey Brain! — Scott Adams– Review

Stick to Drawing Comics Monkey Brain! Cartoonist Ignores Helpful Advice by Scott Adams is a collection of short essays or so it says on the front flap. It consists of some 150 entries. If you read the back cover, however, you notice that it says 98% of the material in this book comes from his [...]

Morning Thoughts, Supermarket Reading

Hello, I have finished reading Oil by Upton Sinclair. I will be taking some time to take notes so I can write a review of this very complex novel. There is still a lot that is very relevant in this book to todays world. In fact, I feel in some ways, it is a novel [...]

Blog2Print, Morning Thoughts

Hello, I was looking at various sites last night. I decided I wanted to start posting and looking at sites that are part of the corporate world. Mostly, I have been focused on personal blogs. But, last night, I went ahead and decided I should probably start posting to and looking at “professional” blogs in [...]

The Meaning of Book Reviews, A New Year’s Resolution

I read a lot of book reviews. The ones that are especially interesting to read are not necessarily about how good the book is. Sometimes, the best reviews are the ones where you get the reviewers personality or beliefs thrown into the mix. I think most people are looking for book reviews with a particular [...]

Wandering Through Blog Land, Virnor Vinge Ebook

I’ve been wandering through blogland looking at lots of different blogs. I find most library blogs to be pretty boring. They usually have a big picture of the library building on the outside. It would be much more interesting if they took a picture of the inside with the staff next to the bookshelves.
Most of [...]

How to: Be an uber blogger, by Cory

An interesting talk about how to promote your blog by Cory Doctorow, Editor of Boing Boing and Science Fiction writer.

The Recruiter, The Competitive Intelligence Professional And The Librarian

Aynsworth Rand Spofford, Librarian of Congress, 1864-1897

For a while during the internet boom, I worked as a sourcer locating people for an internal recruiting department. There are some librarian positions at the larger recruitment agencies and outplacement services. At the outplacement companies they help executive locate companies and find information on companies they are applying [...]

Elizabeth Moon and Some More Random Thoughts.

I am about halfway through Moon Flights by Elizabeth Moon, a short story collection. I enjoyed reading her earlier science fiction and fantasy. Both the Deeds of Paksenarion series, and the Vatta’s War series are very good. There is a short story called Say Cheese which is set in the Vatta’s war setting. This collection [...]

Please Tell Me About the Books I Have Posted.

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Hello, if you could please tell me about the books I have posted so far it would be great to get some comments. Also comments on any of the links would be appreciated as well. I am surprised at the lack of feedback.
I recently went to Yahoo Groups, but I found most of them were [...]