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Libraries Are Changing

27 November 2002 No Comment

I won’t embarass myself by saying how long it’s been since I went to a municipal library, but I’m in one today. My, how they’ve changed. Here I am updating my blog and catching up on correspondence on a blazing fast internet connection and a sleek flat-panel monitor in the Ford Centennial Library. Thank you, City of Dearborn. Only one complaint, which is that www.bingregory.com is site blocked! What gives? I’ve been good, honest. Not even a naughty word since I started my blog, I think. I guess this makes me against internet censorship.

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