library too hard, too big

When I briefly had a job scoring essays for the California Achievement tests, I was always sadly surprised at how much trouble some people had with them. I read one essay that just said “I did not finish” and another that said “don’t fale me.” I was reminded about this when I looked at the image on Aaron Schmidt’s post about the Jail Finds Flickr group about the things that this person found in books or on the book cart at the jail where they volunteer.

National Library Week in my neighborhood

For National Library Week (or coincidentally) my local library, Bethel Library, got a computer, broadband access, and wireless. I know this because I read about it in the newspaper. This is a nearly linkless post because both the library and the newspaper aren’t quite online yet. I haven’t been there to check it out yet because the library is only open fifteen hours a week. I’m looking forward to it.

linkdump 05apr

Here are the websites that have been gracing my sidebar for the past few months, for those of you reading the site via your RSS reader. You can see all the posts containing these lists by exploring the linkdump tag I’m in the middle of trying to convert my personal site from hand-coded HTML to some sort of hybrid Blogger solution, please wish me luck.