new chapter

Chapter 16, the latest chapter of DSHnD is up!

We have the next three or so chapters already substantially written. Wow.

Really random Final Fantasy question

What's the plural of Ochu? Ochus? Ochui? Ochoa?

I have to admit, my Latin roots? Not the best. Or is Ochu even derived from Latin? Hmm.

MySpace et. al. revisited

So the other day I was expressing distress at legislation targeting MySpace, LiveJournal, and other networking software for blocking in federally-funded libraries and doing a fairly bad job of articulating why that bothered me so much.

This article does a much better job of it. The introduction and the first two sections are where she really deals with this, particularly under the "Are MySpace and Facebook Bad?" heading. (Most of the rest is about library marketing and is therefore probably not of interest to most of you.)

( This is the key quote, for me. )

It's not the site, it's the behavior. And banning the site won't stop the behavior. Education, not legislation. That's my philosophy, too.

"Ask me" meme

This has been going around for awhile, and I am succumbing.

Ask me anything.

I don't necessarily promise to answer, but I will definitely respond.