Kristen wonders about the point of writing her CILIP registration paper: Even if I write it and it gets accepted first time and I become a CILIP Chartered Librarian in the UK…. in the US, I’ll still be Kristen, Librarian…
Specialised training for librarians
CILIP, aka the Library Association (LA), has a webpage detailing training available to its members and others on its lovely pink website. These ‘forthcoming workshops’ are divided into seven categories. What would you expect these to be, coming as they…
Eleven months to debug "Hello World"
After eleven months, I have finally made a CGI programme work in Python. The title of this entry is in fact misleading as I have not in fact diagnosed what is wrong with the original “Hello World” programme: I created…
CowParade in Manchester
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.