Wednesday, March 31, 2004
http://www.airamericaradio.com/ I am just a tad frustrated at the otherwise good coverage of this new liberal talk-radio that fails to note its live Web broadcast capability. Break a leg, Air America! I’ll be listening! Bookmark to:
Wednesday, March 31, 2004
I appeal to your collective wisdom. My dear old ridiculously outdated Visor Deluxe, purchased the first month these became available, had some badly-timed “senior moments” this past couple of weeks, and I’m realizing that though I’m very attached to it, it’s time to look for something better. I’m tempted to get a Treo 600, and […]
The city of Richmond CA, facing very serious financial problems, elected to “eliminate” the director’s position, which has been vacant for over a year. A cursory review of the city’s budget-cut plan suggests the library is the only department to eliminate its leadership as a cost-cutting measure. The budget does not indicate if the city […]
Last year, in 52 days ALA received less than 10,000 ballots. This year, with only ten days since the “polls opened,” ALA has received over 5,000 ballots. 1/4 of all ballots mailed out this year were paper ballots. We can expect a lag time for this participation, but I’m still surprised that ALA has received […]
Instructions for writing the Times: http://www.nytimes.com/ref/opinion/14READ.html The New York Times has a wonderful editorial today, March 26, condemning the March, 2003 crackdown in Cuba. The editorial specifically mentions the independent librarians now languishing in prison, along with journalists and writers, and goes on to describe the other “crimes”: “writing for Web sites based abroad, setting […]
Wednesday, March 24, 2004
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=9879&Cr=UNESCO&Cr1= “The Cuban journalist and poet Raúl Rivero Castañeda, in jail since last April, was today awarded the annual Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). “UNESCO Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura said the award was a tribute to Mr. Rivero’s ‘brave and longstanding commitment to independent reporting, […]
This is actually tough for me, because the standard advice is to bullet-vote for five or so candidates, and yet I can easily find 34 people I’d like to serve with on Council–and that includes people I don’t agree with most of the time. The list below represents some of the people who received my […]
How tempting this is! http://www.alastore.ala.org/SiteSolution.taf?_pi=515 This is a hoot, and for the price ($89), it’s really reasonable. I’d need Photoshop, but realistically I’d also need a graphics designer since even putting a small graphic of a cow on this Web site has exceeded my design abilities. Just this morning I was thinking about fundraising efforts […]
Yesterday the NY Times ran an editorial by Vladimiro Roca, a spokesman for Todos Unidos, a coalition of Cuban dissident groups. He concludes: “On the one-year anniversary of the crackdown, I want to pass along a message to those behind bars: we will not give up in our fight to bring democratic change to our […]
The message below my post just came to the Council list. Zounds! Egad! And my stars! That’s over a 10% increase in voter participation since yesterday morning. Plus now we know what’s going on with the paper ballots. (1/4 of all members are using paper ballots? Let me adjust my bustle!) John Duke says he […]
