This is probably nothing particularly wonderful any more, if it ever was, but I am quite chuffed by it and, if nothing else, I would be interested to hear of additional ways it may be broken. Anyway, since days of…
Cure for constipation
Try singing the theme tune to The OC. Califooooooooornia. It’s got to be worth a shot.
"Funny" subject headings
I’ve just made my first contribution to a wiki by adding some subject headings to the list of Wierd and wacky subject headings. I’ve always liked Virtual reality in management but today I found Boating with dogs (used for Boating…
Cataloger’s Desktop comments
The Library of Congress recently asked for feedback about Cataloger’s Desktop, the Web version of which our library subscribes to. The following are slightly edited comments that I sent: The navigation is extremely disappointing and definitely puts people off: one…
Job advert
I saw the following job advertised by Bedfordshire County Council: Ref: EBCC940/EB/int Vacancy: Resources Assistant (Cataloguing) – Library Resources, County Hall Scale 1/2 �10,872 – �14,106 pa (provisional grade) Job Description: Bedfordshire Libraries Required to work 37 hours per week…
CILIP RSS feed working
It seems the CILIP RSS feed is working, although it seems this has been said before.
Defence of the BBC
Scaryduck offers one of the best defences of the BBC’s licence fee I’ve ever read. I was recently challenged, in another place, to justify the BBC Licence fee, and why, should “anyone have to pay for it when there’s nothing…
Friend writes book
Sil has written a book. No catalogue record that I can see for it yet so, based on the Sitepoint information: Langridge, Stuart. DHTML Utopia : modern web design using JavaScript & DOM / Stuart Langridge ; technical editor, Simon…
Milk Panic
Following a request, I have added Milk Panic to my list of cow games. It is a Flash game in which you must milk the cows before they explode while also making sure the farmer’s pale does not get too…
CILIP RSS feed
CILIP has a new RSS feed (via Library Stuff). It seems to be for news, although it is hard to tell as i) it isn’t working and ii) there is no link from the news pages. For an organisation whose…