A Wandering Eyre

You will never be able to make everyone happy. Please accept this and move on.
I am going to poke my head out of Dragon Age Origins long enough to write this post and make sure the Dog is still watching the Bairn. For more about how Dragon Age has disrupted the Rochester household, see these [...]

Library 101 lives up to the hype.
Thank you for creating a community of learning and sharing for librarians. This is beautiful. Michael says it best when he stated that if two guys can do this, than a whole group of librarians can do anything. He is right. We can.
David Lee King and Michael Porter [...]

The wonderful and handsome Mr. Rochester presented me with a Kindle for my birthday at the beginning of the month. I was surprised and delighted. I did not think I would own an ebook device anytime soon. In a few short weeks, I have fallen in love with this gadget (I can not even begin [...]

There is a new post on Library Garden that sums up every reason why filters in our public schools (and often in public libraries) get an epic fail. Epic. Fail.
Most of the stories I have heard from school librarians involving filtering have absolutely nothing to do with protecting children against things obscene and everything [...]

I started reading Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us by Seth Godin a couple days ago. It is a short read and well worth the time. As an individual who has spent a good portion of the last 15 years or so on the Internet, participating in various tribes, the ideas are not new [...]

Mr. Rochester is a picky reader in the sense that there are just very few things he wants to read bad enough to actually read them. He finds reading a bit boring.
I know at this point you are wondering why I married him, especially after he locked his first wife in the attic (she [...]

In my city newsletter, there is always a list of library events which I like to peruse with varying degrees of interest. This month a children’s program caught my eye. It is called, ahem, the “Pocket Puppeteer.” *cough*
I am not sure what the puppet master has in his pocket, but I am fairly certain that [...]

I have complained about paper newsletters before. I know that there is a demographic that like them and would get the information no other way, however, I still contend that the ROI is too low and the cost way, way too high.
I have never received a newsletter that could not easily and more conveniently, for [...]

Mr. Rochester sent me an article from Tom’s Hardware this morning that discusses a marketer’s ability to make you love or hate a product for reasons not grounded in either fact or reality. Rob Enderle uses the Coke v Pepsi and the recent Vista v Mac commercials as examples to prove that we humans are [...]

It is important to have a back-up plan when creating the plan you hope will work. Sometimes even the best laid plans go awry and then it is time to revamp, evaluate, call in the A-Team, or whatever is needed to keep the levy from breaking.
I recently gave birth in a Birth Center with a [...]