I now live in a purely ceremonial county now that Bedfordshire County Council no longer exists. I can’t say I’m particularly sad to see it go as the good services seemed to come from Mid Bedfordshire District Council and the…
Roman dates return!
Following yesterdays lament at the loss of my lovely Roman dates, sil has kindly converted my old Blosxom plugin (get the plugin itself from the Unofficial Blosxom User Group version 2 plugin list: it’s called date_roman-v0i1) to WordPress, so I…
Aurlog conversion done
The conversion of this weblog to new software is, as the Emperor would say, complete. It all went rather well in the end, including the transfer of comments, which is a bonus. As a reader I really doubt if you…
Possible disruption to Aurlog
I am going to attempt to change the software running this weblog very soon, hopefully this week, so I apologise for any annoying phenomena such as duplicated posts appearing in RSS readers, unavailable pages, less beautiful design, and so forth.…
Twittering about CILIP
Bob McGee (chief executive of CILIP) asks if CILIP should get involved with Twitter. Phil Bradley answers in no uncertain terms. My own comment on the matter can be found on Phil Bradley’s post (together with a further plug for…
Birthday Bus
On the way to work this morning, I noticed this unusual message on a London bus, which was a little unexpected to say the least: Thank goodness I had my camera with me. N.B. This has nothing to do with…
7 Things You May (Or May Not) Know About Me
Stuart (who’s birthday it is today) kindly tagged me to find out 7 things you may (or may not) know about me. Without further ado and cursing who’s fault it is or whose to blame for these things: I was…
On depressing contents notes
Perhaps the most depressing contents note I’ve come across for a while: ” … disc 5. Loss of a parent in adult life, loss of a partner or spouse and depression & helplessness (57 min.) — disc 6. Anger, aggression…
New café in Sandy
Yay: a new café called the Perfect Cup opened on Monday in Sandy, taking over the former premises of Stead and Simpson across the road from Budgens, and I went to have a visit. It’s a very good location to…
Merry Christmas!
In lieu of my traditional post of Christmas cracker jokes* I bring a lazy but excellent list of Christmas readings: Scaryduck finally does Condensed History : The Birth of Jesus : the timeless tale of the birth of Our Lord…