001 again. For a fuller explanation, see Arantius Urus. Please note that the spelling of said weblog has been corrected since I first mentioned it. Aurantius would probably be something to do with the law of gold or golden soup,…
Copyright petition
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to create a new exception to copyright law that gives individuals the right to create a private copy of copyrighted materials for their own personal use, including back-ups, archiving and shifting format. (Via…
Salve munde
As a way of practising writing in Latin, I have started Aurentius Urus, a weblog written entirely in Latin, except for the bumf down the side and so on. If you really want to read a weblog in Latin with…
Bad language in WW1 Belgium
I’ve just finished reading Tommy: the British soldier on the Western Front 1914-1918 by Richard Holmes. The apt timing is more by luck than judgement. There is an excellent section in the book on language, including swearing, which includes the…
Exclusive car buying service for CILIP members
Exciting news from CILIP: An exclusive car buying service has been secured from Nexus Cars as the latest addition to Special Deals for CILIP Members, the package of affinity benefits that provide extra value for CILIP membership. Nexus Cars can…
Walk it
Simon Brunning points out a new service called Walk It which gives directions for pedestrians, much in the same manner as Google Maps does for cars. Mr Brunning gives a good overview of it, especially pointing out its fault in…
And that wants to be called for a Javascript program something
Cowthello is getting a reasonable number of referrals from Liste von Reversi/Othello-Spielen online, a list, in German, of 146 othello/reversi games available online. The write up for Cowthello- listed under Tom, not under Cowthello, number 12 last time I checked-…
Author and title matches
A colleague who is shortly retiring has for a long time compiled a list of books whose authors match the titles. Unlike these (including Hole in the mattress by Mr Completely and the more archaic Lilburn Stript and Whipt by…
Excellent book title
I came across this excellent book title today: The techniques of sprang. The subtitle gives a little more away: Plaiting on stretched threads. Sprang is apparently an ancient fabric-making technique and is one of those words that is probably not…
Catalogue language frequencies
One of our systems librarians wanted to create a language filter for the library catalogue and asked me for a list of codes, to which I replied with the MARC21 language code list, while recognising that this isn’t really very…