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)...
View Article"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...
View Article"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...
View ArticleCILIP: "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...
View ArticleInspiring 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...
View ArticleSpam 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...
View ArticleJoe
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...
View ArticleMan Bites Dog
This has to be possibly the greatest newspaper article of all time… Many thanks to @Stefing and @wiilassie for tweeting it
View ArticleCo-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...
View ArticleE. Henry Thripshaw's Disease
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...
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