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Scholarships are available to help defray the costs of attending Wikimania 2007, which will be held in Taipei, Taiwan from August 3-5. The deadline for scholarships has been extended to April 15, 2007; please apply soon. You can find more information here: http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships and an application form here: http://wm07schols.wikimedia.org/apply.php Registration and our Call for Participation [...]

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I am processing Scholarship applications for Wikimania 2007. NB: The application deadline is soon, so apply if you’re going to! One of the questions reads: Tell us a little bit about yourself: Absolutely best answer to date: I’m a professional low-budget world traveler. Awesomeness. Hello, new career goal!

My dear friend is visiting for a few days with her six-week old son. He is adorable, and it has been great having them. However, I am totally exhausted after a few days of dealing with an infant, and I’m not the one feeding it or getting up in the middle of the night. It [...]

This is big, big news in the engineering library world right now… http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/20/2135201 My library is currently dealing with the same issue. SAE has cut us off b/c we refused to sign their contract, which wouldn’t allow: * a paper to be used anywhere except the computer where it was downloaded — obviously a problem [...]

Soooo, Would anyone like to go to the Sasquatch music festival with me? I wasn’t exactly planning to go, but: * Bjork * Beastie Boys * Ghostland Observatory * Neko! Case! * The Arcade Fire * The Dandy Warhols * Michael Franti and Spearhead etc etc I probably can’t afford to go, but I’m in [...]

There’s no sunset tonight; it’s just slowly getting dim. There’s no sunset; the sky still has the paleness of winter, not the blazing pinks and reds that will come later, when the dust kicks up, when fields are dry. Now they’re lush; clover growing an inch a minute, everything green, miraculous. (New leaves on the [...]