The Alberta Library Conference is later this week in Jasper, and I will be there.

The weird thing about attending library conferences for me is that I know a LOT of the people that attend, but I do not recognize many of them because I only deal with them via email. There are many people with whom I have a working relationship for years, but whose face I do not recognize. Last fall at Netspeed 2006, I wanted to talk to a lot of the librarians and library techies that I have worked with, but I hardly got to meet anyone.

I have come up with a way to overcome that this time… sort of. I have a way for people to recognize me easily. I could show you a picture of me, but would you really remember my face from a photo? I wouldn’t. Instead I am posting this photo of my (very remarkable) shoes: A pair of green suede Redd shoes from Fluevog with orange laces.

If you see the guy with green suede shoes with orange laces at ALC… that’s me!

My name is Aisling Mullan and I am a year 10 student at [edited for privacy] in Croydon, Surrey. I am currently working on my GCSE Edexcel ICT project 5 a day. As part of my project I need to collect relevant information/ images. And I seek your permission to use a picture of fruit salad that i found on google, with a link from your website. I will acknowledge any resources used.

Thank you very much for any help and permission you may give.

Hi Aisling,

Yes, please feel free to use my fruit salad photo. I have emailed you several other hi-res photos of the same salad.

Officially, it is available for use under a Creative Commons license. Specifically, this one: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/.

That means you are free to use it, display it, distribute it, and modify it. You should provide attribution (that is you should say where you got it from). If you distribute modified versions, you must do so under the exact same terms.