The dog ate my homework

... and other excuses could be a thing of the past with Web-based office tools that allow users to create and save their work online. I hope our patrons are already using Google Documents and Spreadsheets or Zoho because these services are really user-friendly and they are good for the environment (less printing, no need for floppy disks). I plan to use these tools for collaborating on documents with other people in my department.

Google Mars was neat and I pitted certain authors against J.K. Rowling in Google Trends. Rowling garnered a healthy amount of interest compared to other authors in my research set.

I stumbled upon a road trip planning tool that seems like a rather nifty alternative for getting somewhere: http://trippish.com/