There seem to be a lot of bad things happening in Sandy at the moment. Our son’s nursery has been forced to close in March because the owners won’t renew the lease on the building. I don’t know the full…
Four things
Sil, whose birthday it is today passed me the following meme. Fascinating reading no doubt, especially the section on holidays. Further, if I have missed anything off the list of essential breakfast ingredients, I hope you will let me know.…
CSS tartan
I’ve been playing with the idea of transparency in CSS and come up with CSS tartan. I know it works on Mozilla 1.7 and IE 6.0. The cross-browserness of the technique was effectively taken from Quirksmode. Some of the widths…
Librarians’ stress
The Times reports some research that has been done… …which suggests that being a librarian induces more stress than working for the emergency services, driving a 125mph express, or teaching a class of ill-behaved children. I offer no comment except…
Google video
Google Video (via Crooked Timber) looks very interesting, some it really good, some of it really bad. It is a mixture of films, private videos, TV clips, etc. A good measure of this mixture both of content and quality can…
Weeding Iraqi libraries
Juan Cole quotes an interesting piece On Removing pro-Baath Books from the Libraries in Iraq, specifically university libraries. This is interesting in itself, although having seen the reaction to book weeding in the UK, I can’t help wonder exactly what…
Queuing music
I went into the bank at lunchtime. The Halifax on Tottenham Court Road has taken the bizarre decision to play music in the branch. However, when there’s a queue, it is probably best not to play Elton John’s I’m still…
Reducing cow gas
After the Swedish efforts to harness the methane of (admittedly dead) cows, and Jeremy Clarkson’s complaints about the huge contribution (live) cows make to global warming through methane emissions, Scottish scientists have apparently come up with a way of reducing…
Lost lottery
Aquarion has written The grand lottery checker which works out how much you would have won for a given set of UK lottery numbers if you had played every day since it started. I tried the Lost numbers (4, 8,…
Happy new year
Happy new year!