A Wandering Eyre

Can there be official announcements for an unevent? Perhaps.
Mark your calenders, oh you lovers of chaos and fun. ALA Unconference 2010 or unala10 will be Friday, June 25, 2010 from 9am-4:30pm in room 207A at the Washington Convention Center.
This year, I am planning the unconference with the amazing Sean Robinson. Last year, ALA was [...]

My friend, who works in Washington, DC, and I were having a nice little chat today and he asked me how things were at Lockheed.
Mr. Rochester, for those of you that do not know, is an actual Rocket Scientist on the Constellation Program which has been canceled by the new NASA budget. That budget [...]

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I keep thinking I will get stuff done at night and then the Olympics come on and I am sucked in. Needless to say, we have spent most of the last week or so on the couch. I took this picture yesterday of Mr. Rochester and the Bairn as they watched [...]

It is all well and good for librarians, publishers, and other professional bibliophiles to rave and rant about publishing, ebooks, DRM, and other things that we love and hate, but it is something all together when regular readers have the same conversation.
Sarah at Smart Bitches, Trashy Books will be speaking at O’Reilly Tools of [...]

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Here is a picture with my sister, Jennifer, myself, and our Band Director, Mr. Johnson.
It is funny how fast time goes by, but how gathering with old friends makes years seem like yesterday.
–Jane, very, very blessed to have been a Band Nerd

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I am thankful for many things, but here is a picture of two of the big things. I took this while we were camping last week.
–Jane, loves her boys

In preparation for a major writing project (more later), I have been reading a lot of books on collaboration in the era of the Internet and the ways this mindset has influenced… everything. I am currently in the middle of Wikinomincs. I know this is something I should have read ages ago, but there is [...]

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It is important that every geek parent strive to indoctrinate geekery in their wee ones.
Here is Wee Bairn Rochester sitting in the captain’s chair of one of our computer set-ups. He loves to click the mouse and pound the keyboard. Unfortunately for Mr. R, Wee Bairn has already figured out how [...]

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I am thankful for many blessings in my life.

Mr. Rochester was kind enough to point out to me that today I officially move from being just 30 to thirtysomething. Thanks for noticing, love.
I was surprised when Mr. R and the Bairn presented me with an Amazon Kindle. I never expected to own a Kindle, mostly because it was hard for me to justify [...]