The Travelin' Librarian

According to Amazon.com I’m quoted as thinking my book’s wonderful on the front cover. In reality, Stephen Abram is quoted on the cover’s front, while Bill Drew and Susan Johns-Smith are on the back cover.

The folks who carved these pumpkins have way more talent than you or I do.

I keep my eyes open for oddities while surfing when it comes to Web site design and usability. Here’s three finds from the past three days:

Best viewed in 10 year old technology

My desired username is too long

BlogThis! asked me to perform word verification

I’m up and running on Last.fm. I generally only listed to music on my laptop when I’m on the road so it’ll be a little while before what I listen to starts to appear. However, I know some of you have Last.fm accounts so log in and make me a friend. I’m always looking for new tunes.

As if F. Paul Wilson’s Repairman Jack novels didn’t kick A** enough, here’s Unshelved’s introduction to the books.

Don’t have software that’ll do just the basics to an image such as rotate, crop, zoom, and red eye removal or just looking to edit some photos while on a public computer? Try PXN8.COM. Just upload your photo, edit it, and resave or send it to your flickr account.
Thanks Steven

I was just contacted by someone from Livres Hebdo [English translation] “which is more or less the equivalent of Publishers Weekly” and they want to publish a copy of my photo of the BSU Library Sign. The total coolness is that they’re going to pay me €80 (about US$100) for it! See folks, yet another reason to post your photos on flickr.