Typical — just when I'm having fun messing about with Amazon Web Services, almost every Amazon site in the world breaks down… …I almost got the full set, but Amazon Japan is still going strong… Given Amazon's dominance, I wonder how much it's costing them in lost sales per minute to have their entire Western [...]
Posts in ‘2006’
"There was enough left for this cowbell… Damn you, eBay!!!"
Okay, I've never seen any episodes of Saturday Night Live, so the recent spate of "more cowbell" posts went straight over my head (leaving a very unflattering centre parting). Thank God for Wikipedia Anyway, never one to willingly miss a passing bandwagon, here's my contribution…
The Library 2.0 Idea Generator
There's an ancient Japanese proverb which translates roughly as: "If you put an infinite number of programming monkeys into a room, one of them will write a Library 2.0 Idea Generator" So… tonight, Matthew, I am going to be that programming monkey and I proudly unveil the… The Library 2.0 Idea Generator! If you get [...]
RIP: Gigabyte GA-7VT600 1394 (2004-2006)
It is with profound personal sadness that I must announce the passing away of Gigabyte GA-7VT600 1394, aged just 3 years old. Below is a picture of GA-7VT600 in happier days:
DUG/HUG 2006 – Day Three
A little later than planned (due to a mislaid memory stick containing the final Powerpoint!), here's a link to the "Free Software" presentation: http://library.hud.ac.uk/mediawiki/dughug2006/UsingFreeSoftware.zip …and here are the photos from the end of day two and from the award ceremony on day three: http://www.daveyp.com/gallery/categories.php?cat_id=14 http://www.daveyp.com/gallery/categories.php?cat_id=15 Grace Bays also emailed her photos through to me, so [...]
white dog poo?
Sarah Houghton (aka LibrarianInBlack) has blogged that Answers.com has a new natural language "Web Answers" feature which lets you pose life's great unanswerables – e.g.: what happened to white dog poo? (I should point out that Sarah didn't pose that exact question, but it's one that's been niggling at the back of my mind for [...]
DUG/HUG 2006 – Day Two
The only problem with offering to do presentations is that they don't leave you any time to blog about the actual event itself!!! For those who prefer an electronic version, here are the 3 presentations I gave today: Introduction to Web 2.0 / Library 2.0 Email Notices at Huddersfield Sentry at Huddersfield If you have [...]
DUG/HUG 2006 – Day One
ARRRRGGGGGHHHHHH! It's 01:02am and I just spent the last 30 minutes writing up an in-depth blog entry for day one… by the time I submitted it, the University of Lincoln network has timed my web connection out and refused to reload the page containing the text I'd just typed. I honestly don't have the energy [...]
DUG/HUG Day Minus One
Martin and myself travelled down to Lincoln yesterday (via Sheffield) on a train that seemed to stop at everywhere else in the UK — what is about a 1 hour drive from Huddersfield to Lincoln is a good 2½ to 3 hour train ride along bumpy winding country tracks. No sooner had we checked in, [...]
looking for Library 2.0!
I'm giving a presentation about Web 2.0 and Library 2.0 later on this week at the DUG/HUG (UK) Conference 2006 and I'm wanting to demo some of the great things libraries have done with Library 2.0 and Web 2.0. In particular, I've got one slide that has two spare bullet points of space left and [...]