Big Brother are apparently introducing RSS feeds amongst other changes. Hurrah: I shall see what it looks like. In the meantime, try mine. Incidentally, in the comments to the last article, David Holtz suggested using FeedFire. I couldn’t get any…
Unstoppable passengers meet immovable passengers
A wonderful occurence this morning on the train from Sandy to Finsbury Park. There is a special timetable today with fewer and shorter trains only running to Finsbury Park instead of Kings Cross because of yesterday’s fire at Kings Cross.…
Buffy library playset
After the toy librarians comes a Buffy school library playset (again via Catalogablog) which actually looks to be genuine: $51 and delivered in three days.
Arlesey still strange for the World Cup
The Biggleswade Chronicle reports that the house in Arlesey with the cross of St George on it has gone football crazy by not removing said cross, although I notice that the picture does have the word Robbed removed. Will they…
Paul Daniels’s eBay transactions
I recently found a weblog recording all the eBay transactions of Paul Daniels (via Jack Mottram). It contains quite stunning descriptions of the items bought, mainly DVDs it seems, as well as blow by blow accounts of sales:e.g., On March…
Toy librarians
I’m not normally a fan of self-conscious library humour, but these toy librarians in the manner of toy soldiers (via Catalogablog) are wonderful.
Big Brother 2006 RSS feed that actually works
The Big Brother rss feed I created with Feed43 didn’t work. Although the feed seemed OK if you went and checked it, and although it presented very nicely when it did work, it never seemed to update on Bloglines, giving…
CILIP’s membership message
CILIP (via Edith Speller) have come up with a shortlist of ‘membership messages’, the idea being that: If someone asks you “why join CILIP?” can you give a simple, compelling answer? Well, apparently now you can, and since I have…
Big Brother 2006 rss feed
As a follower of Big Brother I am always disappointed that they don’t have an rss feed for their news. So, I decided to use Feed43 which screenscrapes websites to provide feeds, with a little setting up. I configured a…
Lordi Lordi it’s Eurovision!
It’s Eurovision this weekend, and the highlight this year seems to be Finland, who have entered a death metal band called Lordi (the Lord). As the BBC reports, there are five band members whose real names are apparently a mystery…