The Library of Congress’s Cataloging Distribution Service is doing a survey on the development of its Cataloger’s Desktop, which they are planning to overhaul. They seem keen to rework it for the web rather than replicating the CD product it…
Library-themed weddings
Speaking as a librarian married to another librarian whose brother is a librarian I still cannot find the stomach to appreciate this library-themed wedding (via post on Autocat mailing list), although I am unusually sensitive to work-home infringements. One commenter…
Birthday
Today is my birthday. Hooray. Inspired by sil’s age-guessing quizzes, I here present some library and information science equivalents. My age is now the same as the following: The Dewey Decimal number for General encyclopedic works in English The UDC…
Stephen Fry on GNU and Linux
The two great pillars of Open Source are the GNU project and Linux. I shan’t burden you with too much detail, I’ll just make the outrageous claim that your computer will be running some descendant of those two within the…
BBC Breakfast extra content on Freeview
If you are watching BBC Breakfast on Freeview, you can get access to more in-depth news coverage by pressing the following secret combination of buttons on the remote control: Mute, 3, Text, OK Follow the on-screen instructions. To be honest,…