Phil Bradley has written a long “a stream of thought” post on how he would like to see CILIP looking in ten years’ time. I’m not sure how much I agree with a lot of it, but it is interesting…
Photos of me
I expect most readers of this blog are desperate to know what I really look like. The photo at the top of this blog doesn’t really give a good image so I put some better pictures on Flickr, the most…
General Election prediction
Following my highly acclaimed* and wildly popular** predictions of Eurovision results, I offer my l33t sybilline skilz to the 2010 General Election tomorrow. All free of charge***: The Conservatives will scrape a majority. This is based on the principles that…
General Election candidates in North East Bedfordshire
The five candidates so far for the North East constituency are the following. So far no Greens or independents that I know of: Alistair Burt (Conservative), the sitting MP since 2001: Website: http://www.alistair-burt.co.uk/ Wikipedia:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alistair_Burt Lives: Wootton, Bedfordshire (in Mid Bedfordshire…
Masterchef Facts
Masterchef HQ is actually John and Gregg’s house. Gregg’s now famous line “Cooking doesn’t get tougher than this!” was originally uttered by Gregg in response to a joint of beef that John had cooked for lunch that day. Gregg receives…
Trains and when to minimise disruption
For some years now, railway engineering works has taken place during holidays. To quote a BBC report from August 2009: It says that work is scheduled for bank holiday weekends because fewer people…
Chess
One of the many reasons I don’t post on this weblog as much as I used to is that I have discovered online correspondence chess. My brother and I had always toyed with the idea of playing correspondence chess (CC)…
Aurlog safely moved to new host
Although you probably want to read a post about this weblog less than you want to read a post on this weblog, I wanted to mark the fact that Aurlog has now moved host for the first time since it…
CILIP has RSS feed for job vacancies
Finally, CILIP has RSS feeds for its Lisjobnet library vacancies service! Hurrah! Although the RSS Jobs Feed page still has the title Temporary Librarian Jobs RSS Feed and text saying LIS Jobs Temps uses this technology to update you with…
Best songs of the rock and roll era (Belgium ; 1)
Before the GPSOE’s recent expedition to Brussels, Stuart very kindly gave me, Tim, Andy, and himself £10 Amazon vouchers each to buy what we thought were the best songs of the rock and roll era. I shall infringe Stuart’s intellectual…