I know this is hardly the most important aspect of the issue, but it is annoying: the misuse of English by the governments involved in the current fight against terrorism. The worst one is the war on terror which sounds…
French ban mobile phones from cinemas
The BBC reports that the National Federation of French Cinemas is jamming phones in French cinemas and is being supported by the French government to do so. An excellent idea, which I know has been considered for libraries. We couldn’t…
Stuart Langridge
Made you look.
Let the train take the strain
Transport 2000 has a huge amount of facts and figures about transport in the UK derived from various, mainly official, sources. Some of the most interesting are: In heavy traffic jams the air quality can be poorer inside the car…
Damn
The world’s best-looking free software radio team are all now unavailable.
Stealth ships to use Windows NT
The Swedes are to introduce radar-beating stealth ships. Those Swedes. According to the BBC, the new ship is also controlled by state-of-the-art computers using a Windows NT operating system. Remind me not to join the Swedish Navy.
Library of Alexandria discovered
Archaeologists have apparently found the Library of Alexandria (via kryogenix). Seems like they didn’t have a good enough disaster plan. I would also be intrigued to see the Alexandria Library Services Catalogue.
The uses of Chartership
Kristen wonders about the point of writing her CILIP registration paper: Even if I write it and it gets accepted first time and I become a CILIP Chartered Librarian in the UK…. in the US, I’ll still be Kristen, Librarian…
Specialised training for librarians
CILIP, aka the Library Association (LA), has a webpage detailing training available to its members and others on its lovely pink website. These ‘forthcoming workshops’ are divided into seven categories. What would you expect these to be, coming as they…
Eleven months to debug "Hello World"
After eleven months, I have finally made a CGI programme work in Python. The title of this entry is in fact misleading as I have not in fact diagnosed what is wrong with the original “Hello World” programme: I created…