Thanks to Iman for jogging my memory about this blog post which I'd been meaning to blog about for the last couple of weeks — in fact, I was chatting to someone after the ARCLib Conference in Liverpool last week about it, but couldn't remember the name of the library for the life in me [...]
Posts from ‘July, 2008’
Hot Stuff is cooling down
Due to an upcoming server upgrade, the Hot Stuff service will be winding down at the end of next week. If you're using the widget on your blog (and there's only one blog out there that I'm aware of), you'll need to consider removing it.
Dewey Blobs
I've been fascinated by data visualisation for a year or two now, and I've recently been chatting to my good friend Iman about doing something with our circulation data. In particular, something that will be visually interesting to look at, whilst also giving you a feel for the data.
I've tried a few different things, [...]
17 years too late — it's "Bridge to the Stars"!
Regular readers will probably know that I used to be in a band ("The Headmen") in the early 1990s. Thanks to Facebook, I'm back in touch with Simon, the singer/songwriter, and we've been busy converting all of our old cassette tapes to MP3.
I'm so used to "digital" now that's it strange to think that [...]
breaking news: Stephen Abram's brain overloads (again)
It's nearly two years since Stephen Abram's brain last overloaded, but it looks like it might have happened again. According to a blog post that just appeared in the Google Blog Search RSS feed for "SirsiDynix", Mr Abram recently said…
We eat a abandoned blueprint insomuch as this armorial bearings and are comfortable in passage [...]
Show Us a Better Way
Thanks to Iman Moradi for highlighting this site:
Show Us a Better Way
Tell us what you'd build with public information and we could help fund your idea!
Ever been frustrated that you can't find out something that ought to be easy to find? Ever been baffled by league tables or 'performance indicators'? Do you think [...]
HIPpie — how to build a dictionary
Many thanks to those of you who've tested the code from yesterday! Those of you outside of the UK might want to see if this version works slightly faster for you:
hippie_spellcheck_v0.02.txt
The next thing I'll be looking at is how to optimise the spellchecker dictionary for each library. Some of you will already have [...]
HIPpie "Did you mean?" ready for testing (again!)
A thousand apologies to those of you who've been waiting for HIPpie to reach the testing phase — has it really been 6 months since I last posted anything?! HIPpie was/is a project that I'll be doing in my spare time and, unfortunately, since Christmas, my spare time has been taken up with everything [...]
The Headmen
I mentioned that I used to be the bass player in a band ("The Headmen") a while ago and it was great to hear that one or two people still listened to our stuff!
Partly prompted by the fact I've been in touch with Simon (vocals/guitar), I've converted some of the old recordings into MP3 format [...]
ALA 2008
Just in case anyone's not already spotted it, Owen Stephens is doing a fantastic job of blogging ALA 2008.
I've been pondering trying to organise a UK library unconference for a while now, but haven't progressed it any further than the "pipe dream" stage. I wonder if I could persuade Kathryn Greenhill to immigrate to [...]