As we went to a wedding in Manchester last weekend, we dropped in on CowParade there. It was indeed excellent, especially being a lot more compact than the London event in 2002. Particularly good were Mooer’s Moomalade, sponsored by Duerr’s…
New phone
I have a new mobile phone: a Sagem MY X-2. How cool am I?
Blog Like a Pirate
Bloglikeapirate is a plugin for Blosxom which turns blog postings into pirate speak. It should probably be used with the pirate keyboard (via kryogenix). For what this post looked like when I had it turned on, see the first comment.
Hunting without hounds
Scaryduck has come up with alternatives to hunting with hounds, including cats and piranha:
White tea
I have recently discovered white tea, which I had never heard of before. White tea is like green tea but more so: green tea has a very subtle flavour which can often taste like boiled water; white tea is even…
Saint George’s Day
Today is Saint George’s Day. George is of course patron saint of Aragon, Catalonia, Georgia, Lithuania, Palestine, Portugal, Germany and Greece (see britannia.com) as well as, of course, England and syphilis sufferers. I found the inclusion of Germany in the…
Identity cards
Identity cards are a good thing, but only for the right reasons.
MARC perversity by obsolescence
Dorothea Salo notes the apparent perversity of the first indicator of the MARC 245 field being set to 0 to indicate the title as main entry and 1 to indicate that it is not. At the risk of being picky,…
The Octothorpe
While trying to find an entity reference for the £ sign in the previous article, I came across an article in The Register called Why Microsoft Makes a Complete Hash Out of C# which debates the correct name of the…
Recycling
Recycling is good