Month: February 2005 (page 7)

Taylor’s of Harrogate have started exporting tea to China. According to the BBC, it is grown and blended in China, packaged in Britain, and sent back to China.

The (admittedly sponsored removable front page of) The Advertiser (for Biggleswade, Potton, Sandy and Gamlingay) has the headline: Kelly’s Tan and Nail Bar – just what Sandy needs No it isn’t! Apparently, this comment can be heard by the many…

This from Zoe (22) on the recent behaviour of Leslie Grantham: Zoe is stunned by new revelations of Leslie Grantham’s sordid internet sex chats. She says: I cannot believe he could get involved in something so seedy. It’s clearly not…

I would like to thank the kind people at Boxer-Forum.de who have increased the number of hits on Cowthello by a huge amount. If anyone could tell me what the German on that page says I would be most grateful;…

In a discussion on the Jiscmail mailing list DC-GENERAL, which deals with general Dublin Core matters, a subscriber asked what to collectively call advocates of structured metadata. In one of my very few contributions to such lists, I suggested…

Go to http://www.mudam.lu/ and try to get to a site representing the Musée d’art moderne Grand-Duc Jean. All I wanted to do was find out about exhibition dates, not the nature of infinity.

A set of bovine quadruplets has been born in Norfolk, at odds of a billion to one, according to the BBC news. It’s good to see Norfolk at the forefront of developments in unusual genetics.

A verbless book for the first time. By a Frenchman in French, not yet translated into English. Apparently misogynistic.

Dorothea Salo has a good rant about stupid OPACs and makes a number of good points, a number of which have been bothering me in some form, in particular: Why are articles omitted in filing order? Do a browse search…