Sil rants about how to make a decent cup of tea, most of which I agree with. To complete the picture Scary Duck rants about how to get hold of a decent cup of tea outside the UK. Both of…
End of cataloging?
In response to an idea that surfaced on the mailing list Autocat suggesting the reduced need to maintain individual cataloguers with the rise of Google, Google Scholar, Open Worldcat etc., I posted the following: Which makes a lot of sense…
"Cleric defends Da Vinci Code book"
To add to the fun, the BBC reports that a Catholic bishop has suggested that Da Vinci code need not be banned after all, although “I don’t know if people are capable of distinguishing the elements of fiction from those…
NHS recruitment
Librarywebbie makes the interesting point that librarians have been left out of the recent NHS recruitment campaign on TV and wonders if CILIP should be doing anything about it. On a vaguely related note, CILIP have released a report (summary…
"Church fights Da Vinci Code novel"
The BBC reports that the Vatican is fighting back against the claims of Da N. Brown’s Da Vinci code. This is funny enough and needs no further comment. What struck me from the story is the fact that 10 books…
Another test
I scored 48/70 (69%) on the BBC’s Test the Nation big entertainment test. Although the faintly irritating Sooperman Cooperman thankfully didn’t come up with an EQ for the occasion, this was apparently ranked as Above Average. This is odd: anyone…
Bill Gates KBE
Bill Gates is due be made Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. All a bit naff I feel and puts me off wanting a KBE, although I still wouldn’t sniff at a baronetcy if one…
More advanced tagging
Following my post yesterday on del.icio.us and my comment thereto on the shortcomings of its tagging system, I came across an article on the Next generation of open tagging systems on Library Stuff via Catalogablog. It reports on a service…
Cows in art on delicious
I have started using del.icio.us to collect examples of cows in art. Whereas with Famous Cows and Cow Games, which I compiled using browser bookmarks and straight to html, del.icio.us lets me collect them a little more efficiently and have…