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		<title>my new books about books</title>
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i love this book of beautiful black &#038; white photographs of books






this book will help me talk about my 375 other books, some(!) which i haven&#8217;t read



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		<link>http://kothari.ca/2008/01/23/my-new-books-about-books/</link>
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		<title>bananas foster</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An original New Orleans treat! Bananas flambÃ© in a dark rum caramel sauce, prepared at your table and served over vanilla ice cream. &#8212; dadeo
after indulging in the decadent bananas foster many times at dadeo restaurant in edmonton, finally an attempt at flambÃ©!
no worries, the fire extinguisher was close at hand just in case&#8230;
first, we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kothari.ca/2007/08/11/bananas-foster/</link>
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		<title>a midsummer night&#8217;s discardia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[during the next fortnight or so, i will be celebrating discardia, a floating holiday which &#8220;takes place in the time between the Solstices &#038; Equinoxes and their following new moons&#8221; &#8212; so between june 21st (summer solstice) and july 14th (new moon) i will be celebrating&#8230; nothing!
Discardia is celebrated by getting rid of stuff and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kothari.ca/2007/06/20/a-midsummer-nights-discardia/</link>
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		<title>paging doctor wikipedia, stat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[i was searching our library catalogue for books on wikis, and was surprised to find a record for wikipedia added to the catalogue by several hospitals&#8230;

first of all, i wonder why the BBC is listed as a contact in the library record&#8217;s contents note&#8230; the review of wikipedia is from ALA&#8217;s RUSA group, and the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kothari.ca/2007/06/07/paging-doctor-wikipedia-stat/</link>
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		<title>educause</title>
		<description><![CDATA[greetings from San Francisco @ Educause Western Regional Conference:
Next-Gen IT: New Leaders, New Students, New Directions, and Expectations
i kicked off the conference by attending a pre-conference workshop called Fitting New Emerging Technologies into our Existing Learning Management Systems, presented by Cyprien Lomas from UBC.
the session provoked interesting discussion on the potential intersection between emerging trends [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kothari.ca/2007/05/08/educause/</link>
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		<title>zoom-zoom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[today i traded in my 1995 pontiac sunfire and drove away in a shiny, new 2007 mazda 3 sport GT!

zippy-zippy zoom-zoom!
since shopping for cars is not as easy as shopping for shoes, i was armed with a lot of information: articles on car-buying; wholesale reports from CarCostCanada; the latest Best 2007 Cars issue of Consumer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kothari.ca/2007/04/24/zoom-zoom/</link>
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		<title>Y2K7!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[oh, george, with your shifted daylight savings time (DST), a pox upon your whitehouse! 
in an effort to save energy, US congress passed a statute in 2005 mandating US to spring forward 3 weeks earlier than normal, and to fall back a week later than normal, commencing 2007. in an effort to sync with our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kothari.ca/2007/03/12/y2k7/</link>
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		<title>merry christmas crackers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[happy 359th day of the year!
it is not yet midnight and the turkey seems to have lulled everyone else to sleep. vegetarians unite!
during our fabulous feast (thanks anne and merran!) we partook in traditional british christmas crackers.
don we now our crafty colourful paper crowns.
while my friends got &#8220;recognizable&#8221; novelty toys in their cracker (mini-stapler, mini-sewing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kothari.ca/2006/12/25/merry-christmas-crackers/</link>
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		<title>wordie of the day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[i just discovered a new social software site called Wordie:
Wordie [wÃ»rd â€¢ Ä“]
Like Flickr, but without the photos.
Wordie lets you make lists of words &#8212; practical lists, words you love, words you hate, whatever &#8212; and see who else has listed the same words.
i know, you are thinking &#8220;what a word nerd&#8221; &#8212; well, i [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kothari.ca/2006/12/01/wordie-of-the-day/</link>
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		<title>photographica</title>
		<description><![CDATA[i recently bought a Nikon D80 DSLR. 
it tooks months of waffling over which camera to buy (years actually, if you count my personal nikon v. canon debate over the past 6 years &#8212; it took me so long to decide which camera to buy that my coveted film camera turned into a digital camera!).
here [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kothari.ca/2006/11/29/photographica/</link>
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