Everything I know about work life, I learned in Dungeons & Dragons

Interesting post about Dungeons & Dragon play and how it relates to work:
One spell, used well, can be more powerful than an entire book full of spells. I first met Ivan when he showed up for a game in Steve's standard D&D world. Ivan drew up a first-level wizard character who had almost no hit-points and only one wimpy spell: cast an illusion. Whereupon Ivan's character cast an illusion of a 5th-level illusionist...

Everything I know about work life, I learned in Dungeons & Dragons

Interesting post about Dungeons & Dragon play and how it relates to work:
One spell, used well, can be more powerful than an entire book full of spells. I first met Ivan when he showed up for a game in Steve's standard D&D world. Ivan drew up a first-level wizard character who had almost no hit-points and only one wimpy spell: cast an illusion. Whereupon Ivan's character cast an illusion of a 5th-level illusionist...

National Historical Park database with Edison-era sound recordings

Sounds interesting....---------------The National Park Service (NPS) Library Program recently loaded the Thomas Edison National Historical Park (TENHP) MARC-format database of recorded sound holdings into the NPS Voyager catalog.  The NPSVoyager catalog is available for public searches on-line at http://www.library.nps.gov/ .The TENHP database in Voyager includes MARC-format data for the 10,000 cylinder records and 28,000 disc records preserved at Edison’s Laboratory in West Orange, New Jersey.

National Historical Park database with Edison-era sound recordings

Sounds interesting....---------------The National Park Service (NPS) Library Program recently loaded the Thomas Edison National Historical Park (TENHP) MARC-format database of recorded sound holdings into the NPS Voyager catalog.  The NPSVoyager catalog is available for public searches on-line at http://www.library.nps.gov/ .The TENHP database in Voyager includes MARC-format data for the 10,000 cylinder records and 28,000 disc records preserved at Edison’s Laboratory in West Orange, New Jersey.

Call for Papers (Web apps conference)

I'm writing to remind you that the submission deadline for the USENIX Conference on Web Application Development (WebApps '10) is approaching.Please submit your paper titles and abstracts by January 4, 2010, and your complete papers by January 11, 2010.The Call for Papers, with submission guidelines, can be found at http://www.usenix.org/webapps10/cfpb/WebApps '10 is a new technical conference designed to bring together experts in all 

Call for Papers (Web apps conference)

I'm writing to remind you that the submission deadline for the USENIX Conference on Web Application Development (WebApps '10) is approaching.Please submit your paper titles and abstracts by January 4, 2010, and your complete papers by January 11, 2010.The Call for Papers, with submission guidelines, can be found at http://www.usenix.org/webapps10/cfpb/WebApps '10 is a new technical conference designed to bring together experts in all 
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