tidbits gleaned from cyberland

A nice word of the day today from Dictionary.com: "phantasmagoria: a shifting series or succession of things seen or imagined." Also, yesterday's WOTD leads me to a nice quote: "The anger caroms around in our psyches like jagged stones. -- Randall Robinson, Defending the Spirit"

and, when I'm in Pittsburgh/Oakland, I'd like to visit this hookah bar - the Sphinx Cafe. I was turned on to hookahs in Paris when the roommate of my friend, who I was staying with, was dating someone from Egypt and regularly filling the flat with sweet-smelling fruit/tobacco smoke.

Too bad the Sphinx doesn't have any food (although they do have beverages); what seems to be their sister restaurant looks a bit far from campus: in the Penn Hills neighborhood: "King Tuts Restaurant, 200 Rodi Road, Penn Hills Shopping Center, Pittsburgh." Still, I probably would go to some length to get middle eastern food.

My favorite middle eastern hookah/food purveyor in Phil'a is Fez (Morrocan). [Wow, they have a really corny website! (never visited it before now)]

I like this blog called "the Holomorphism Exchange". I found it a little while ago, resultant from some search or other, and now I can't for the life of me remember how I found it...

LIS2600 assignment, due June 24 - (2nd of 2 posting requirements): URL for my custom Google Search Engine

It's called Gender and Technology

It's not as refined yet as I'd like it to be; I'll keep tweaking it.

LIS2600 assignment, due June 24 - (1st of 2 posting requirements): URL for Scopus search results via Bloglines

My Scopus search terms were "digital divide" AND "library" OR "libraries".

Here is the URL for my public folder in Bloglines, containing the search results.

wonderful/helpful use of vlogging (video blogging)

this really helps me with my research, looking into buying a tablet-type computer...

a video comparison of 2 different tablet-type (UMPC, ultra mobile PC) machines, by Hugo Ortega

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I actually used to use the LiveJournal widget to update my LiveJournal/personal blog, but eventually I found it faster/easier just to update directly at my LJ blog page... so yes, I've had a blog before, but never while I was formally in school, and also never required!

I'm intending to use this as a school-assignments notes/musings space, almost like my written notebooks used to be when I was in undergrad, and so far it is indeed working to help me organize my thoughts (which was always one important function of keeping notes). now, if only Blogger will stay online and not crash (as I fear it will do although it's given me no reason to doubt as much), then I can also use it for the other function of taking notes: review in advance of papers/quizzes/exams! Here's hoping...

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