It's not often that the area where we live gets a mention on the BBC News web site: "Homes evacuated amid factory fire" …in fact, the last time might well have been this story about a local inventor who was attacked by a squirrel. Unfortunately the main road where we live is still closed by [...]
Posts in ‘2007’
Keeping an eye on your HIP
As promised to the HORIZON-L mailing list, here's a Perl script we use to monitor our HIP server: www.daveyp.com/blog/stuff/monitor/monitor.pl Once you've downloaded it, rename the file to monitor.pl In summary, the script checks two URLs and sends an email to one (or more) email addresses if a trigger is reached: (1) the first check is [...]
"Smoke lingers 'round your fingers"
Now this is why I have absolutely zero interest in getting a job in London: BBC News: Table-sized flat for £170,000 In case you're not from around these parts, that's: $336,074 US dollars €259,428 Euros $426,364 Australian dollars 3,664,289 Mexican pesos 14,821,889 India rupees As a comparison, our 3 bedroom period terraced cottage (which is [...]
Blyberg Rocks!
Given how quiet he's been of late, I should have known John Blyberg was up to no good… AADL.org Goes Social I'm so envious that John is given the time to do all this by his management — I always seem to end up doing my coding during lunch breaks or at weekends — and [...]
The Library Predict-o-matic 3000
Were you caught on the hop by the merger of Sirsi and Dynix? Did the Ex Libris acquisition of Endeavor take you by surprise? Were you amazed by the breaking news that LibraryThing is going to buy out Talis? If the answer to any of the above is "yes", then you need the… Library Predict-o-matic [...]
"Spooky" and "Eureka!" moments
Just spotted "Asking Non-Users Why They Don't Use the Library" (LISNews): From the Newtown (CT) Bee, C.H. Booth Library is looking for opinions about the library from an unlikely source: the people who do not use it. As part of a study for long-range planning at the library, made possible through a $9,000 grant awarded [...]
More hot stuff
I've just added another widget to the blog: …it shows the new words and hot topics that have appeared in library/librarian weblogs during the last 48 hours, using the data from the tag cloud I knocked together last month. At the moment, the new Apple iPhone is the hottest topic out there. If you want [...]
Baby steps
I like sneaking in new OPAC bits when no-one's looking and then waiting for people to discover them Before Christmas, I was chatting to Kathryn Greenhill in Second Life about OPAC-y (or should it be "OPACeous?") things, and I turned a vile of green when I discovered that she's got user ratings on their OPAC [...]