A little late as the final is this Friday, but I ought to mention that I noticed a week or two ago that the Big Brother site now has an RSS feed, part of a family of Channel 4 RSS…
Worldcat now on the web
OCLC have now put WorldCat (1.3 billion items in more than 10,000 libraries worldwide properly on the internet (rather than through Google or some other means). It says Beta although I don’t know if this is a proper beta, although…
The value of CILIP
In lieu of a proper post, I would like to point you in the direction of a post on Ian Snowley’s weblog from April about the Value of CILIP on which we had a short exchange of comments. Ian Snowley…
New cow game: Cow Tipping
John Phethean of Pave Graphics recently emailed me about a whack-a-rat style Flash game he has written for the A-Coo-Stik site. The game is Cow Tipping and is very hard, so far as I’ve tried it. I’ve added it to…
Top of the Pops gone
Top of the Pops has now gone and thank goodness. At least now we will now not have to endure stories of its decline, relaunch, and relaunch. The last five years or so has been a bit like watching Tim…
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004, barring a thousand tweaks and additions. Now my weblog looks like everyone else’s.
Willington rowing lake to go ahead
The BBC reports that the proposed Olympic rowing lake at Willington will go ahead despite the inadequate local transport and the fact it will most likely scupper the Bedford to Cambridge railway proposals. All for a crappy training lake- it…
Tory rail reorganisation
According to Conservative Home, the Conservatives, or David Cameron as they’re now known, are thinking about reorganising the railways so that companies run both track and trains, which I believe is how the Japanese do these things. Apparently this would…
Sandy pubs
Pubchatter has interesting and fairly accurate description of Sandy. Most of the article is, naturally enough, about the pubs of the town which, sadly, I am not actually that greatly experienced enough to argue with. However this short run-in to…
Work to do in Arlesey
Someone in Arlesey has some work to do on his house.