Blogging, Marching, and Matrimony

Alex MacDonell spotted the phrase 'Nom de Blog' in the New York Times of 15 February. "It looks," he suggests, "as though 'blog' is joining 'plume' and 'guerre' as an American-French appellation." It turns out to be fairly common and has already reached several online glossaries of terms. There's also "nom de Web" and the much older "nom de Usenet", which is recorded as far back as 1990. (From: World Wide Words 2/24/07)

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'March of the Librarians' is a video about the latest convention of the American Libraries Association, done as a take-off on March of the Penguins. "How they know to congregate in the same spot, no one knows. They come to learn, network, collect free stuff and, possibly, to mate."

Click on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Td922l0NoDQ
(From: www.LibrarianOfFortune.com 2/13/07)


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Just for the record, I've been married 41 years today - to the same person no less !