Common good

Can't help but mention that Wall Street Journal today (Friday, the 29th) has a thoughtful cover story in Weekend Journal praising the Finnish school system (other publications have had articles lately as well). Since OECD started testing 15-year-olds Finland has been close or at the top of their rankings. Of course over there people complain about schools constantly and lament (I've heard personally) that if this is as good as it gets, we are, as humans, in bad shape indeed--It's the ongoing process that's meaningful.

Another New Thing

I've been busy with a new (new to me) Thing called LibraryThing. I'd heard about it already last summer by word of mouth (of a librarian), but I finally put my nose to the grindstone recently and started LibraryThinging, that is, cataloging my home library online. Currently, 50 books down, about 2000 more to go. Hey I'm counting my husband's and my children's too. Lots of items obtained in garage sales and library friends' used book sales. So far so good.

LibraryThing is a Web 2.0 application because of the social aspects in it. While registering, I identified myself as a Blogger participant, too. I'm learning more about that every day as I go, and the more I know, the better I like it. Good thing.

http://www.librarything.com/catalog/exlibrisemk