Over the last 5 years or so, I seem to have developed a habit of mistyping words and I'm curious to know if anyone else does it? …or can I name the condition after myself? As a bit of background, I'm a touch-typist, so type fairly quickly without looking at the keyboard. Anyway, what happens [...]
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Co-operative Group advertising in Rupert Murdoch's newspapers
a copy of the email I've just sent to the Co-operative, who I've banked with all my working life… To: customer.relations@co-op.co.uk Dear Sir or Madam I am writing to express my disappointment that the Co-operative Group has decided to continue advertising in Rupert Murdoch's newspapers: http://bit.ly/mzXiTI As a banking customer of nearly 20 years, I [...]
Man Bites Dog
This has to be possibly the greatest newspaper article of all time… Many thanks to @Stefing and @wiilassie for tweeting it
Joe
Joe, our beloved cat for the last 4 years, passed away this evening at 6:30pm. Just before Christmas, he started to go off his food and was initially diagnosed with kidney disease. Despite having high levels of toxins in his blood, he responded well to the first round of treatment. Throughout January, he had to [...]
Spam of the Day
—–Original Message—– From: XXX@durrex-pump.com [mailto:XXX@durrex-pump.com] Sent: 08 December 2010 15:31 To: Library Support Subject: Life is life! Hello My Friend! I write to you the letter, and I hope to receive the answer from you. My name is Marina. I the young woman, me of 29 years, I have brown hair. I the beautiful woman [...]
Inspiring the iGeneration, Wolverhampton
I seem to be following Brian Kelly around at the moment — having managed to pick up his cold at ILI on Monday, I gave a presentation after him at the "Inspiring the iGeneration" event in Wolverhampton yesterday. My presentation (which was a hotch-potch of survey stats, recent news items, and examples) is available on [...]
CILIP: "Re-imagining the Library" Executive Briefing
I've got the great honour of speaking at the CILIP "Re-imagining the Library" Executive Briefing next week, although I'll admit that I'm not looking forward to the journey down to London — getting up at 5am always disagrees with me, plus my body will think it's lunch time at 9am! I remember reading a librarian's [...]
"I'm in the mood for watching a film about…"
Via this post on Lorcan Dempsey's blog, I noticed that the Internet Movie Database now has genre keywords and tag clouds. For example, library brings up a cloud where murder appears to be the largest tag. The list of films matching the chosen facet(s) is ordered by rating, so you get instant recommendations for whatever [...]
"Welcome to LibraryQuest…"
I had a really good meeting with Iman and Andrew Wilson (from Huddersfield based Blink) on Friday morning to see if we can set up a new project that combines the library with all (or some) of the following: gaming, RFID, serendipity, attracting non-users, improving book findability, and generally having fun. Blink have done some [...]
Creatures of the night
Those who know us well will know that we get a lot of wildlife around (and sometimes inside) our house, some of which appears in this Flickr set. In recent months, a pair of tawny owls (Wikipedia/RSPB) have taken to hunting in a patch of woodland opposite our house. In fact, one of their favourite [...]