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So. I just got back from a weeklong trip that took me to Somerville, Nova Scotia and environs, and the Manchester/Hooksett New Hampshire area. You can see some photos. This is what I did there.

• I went to a brown bag lunch with the Dalhousie students which I mentioned a few days ago. It was really a good time. It was the first brown bag lunch session of the year and there was a big group of first and second year students there, as well as a few faculty members. People had done their homework and had really interesting questions to ask me from many different facets of what I do. We had a nice talk.
• I helped Ryan Deschamps kick off the Learning 2.0 program he is doing at Halifax Public Libraries. I gave a talk on Learning 2.0 called Smart Tiny Tech and hung around for some of the other activities. The Learning 2.0 program is such a fun and non-threatening way to get people really digging under the hood learning some technology topics, I love seeing it being rolled out.
• I gave a talk at NSLA about Library 2.0 topics, a little more “big picture” and a little less specific. I like doing this talk because I can always take the general outline and add local 2.0 examples so it doesn’t look like all 2.0 development is at Ann Arbor District Library and a few other techie-seeming places. My favorite new find was the Natural Resources Library of Canada (Ottowa) and their del.icio.us links.
• Sunday I came home to the states, but not quite back to Vermont. Today I went to the NHLA Everything You Always Wanted to Know About 2.0 workshop where I presented with Andrea and Lichen. I gave a talk about Flickr and del.icio.us and one about Open Source Software which was a modification of Eric Goldhagen’s open source talk that I linked to here (direct link to his ppt). Then we stuck around for the gadget session and the geek session where we actually got a significant amount of hands-on time with the things we had been talking about. This was a really great and often-overlooked thing to be able to do.

Now I’m home and I’m uploading pictures and digging through backed up email and getting ready to start my work week tomorrow after some serious time off. Thanks to everyone who made the trip not just possible but enjoyable. update: Lichen has links to her talks and notes from the day up as well.

This one comes from Michele of Scholar's Blog. Nerd vs. Geek came up in a comments thread, and Michele explained the difference and pointed to a test that determines which you are. I always knew I was a nerdish book girl and not much of a geek. I mean, I like technology and whatnot, but I'm not obsessed by it. What disturbed me was my high dork quotient. Here are my scores:

95 % Nerd, 30% Geek, 52% Dork

Here's what the test-makers offered me in return: "You scored better than half in Nerd and Dork, earning you the coveted title of: Tri-Lamb Material." Yikes!

Take the test.

I'm sure there are plenty of ways to track blogs conveniently, but here's a nifty web site that does that for you. Each time the blogs you enter into it have a new entry, it shows up on bold. It's one-stop blog-viewing.

The site is called Bloglines.

(For you Live Journalers - you can add non-LJ blogs to your friends if you have the feed address. Gee, I sound so wonderfully geeky like Mitali.)

But if anybody knows a better way, let me know, would ya?