I'm moving the blog onto a new web server, so things might be a little weird for a couple of days
To help make the move, I'm using my "other" domain (daveyp.co.uk) but this will eventually revert back to daveyp.com once everything is working okay.
Posts under ‘Other Stuff’
All change!
Sunny day
A gorgeous sunny day, ideal for a walk in the wood…
…or for lazing around in the garden…
Read my shocking story
…now, that's more like it
Make mistakes early…
Many thanks for David Flanders for tweeting this quote from the Library of the Future Debate event…
It's raining squirrels
Squirrels falling out of the sky isn't something that's unheard of in Huddersfield — see this BBC News story about an inventor who suffered whiplash from a falling squirrel — but I'd not seen it happen until yesterday.
Late yesterday afternoon, we ventured out into the snow and had a little wander through the local woods. [...]
It's the end of the world!
Run for the hills — the internet has turned bad!
Yay for Talis!
Congratulations to both Talis and LibLime!
Talis, the UK market leader in providing academic and public library solutions, and LibLime, the leader in open solutions for libraries, are pleased to announce a partnership to make available over five million bibliographic records to the library community on the ‡biblios.net platform.– Talis and LibLime Open Data on ‡biblios.net
How [...]
ITV Unforgiven – campus shots
Following on from the last blog post, here's some of the "on-campus" photos…
(that naughty faked "York" signage)
(Quayside, staged to look like a student cafeteria)
(The Art & Design section of the Main Library — apparently the few seconds of footage that appeared in the final programme took 3 hours to shoot!)
(St Paul's Hall — a [...]
Hey up — we're on TV!
The last episode of "Unforgiven" (IMDB) has just finished, and it featured quite a bit of footage filmed on-campus at the University of Huddersfield — mostly in the new Creative Arts Building, opposite the library…
However, if you watched the programme, you probably spotted that the TV production crew covered up the University of Huddersfield signage [...]
Britannica 2.0
Whilst reading an article on The Times web site about Britannica turning up late to the 2.0 party ("Britannica 2.0 shows Wikipedia how it's done"), this sentence jumped out at me:
Mr Cauz [Britannica's president] said the Britannica site was “definitely not as popular” as Wikipedia, attracting about 1.5 million people each day compared with Wikipedia’s [...]