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This is fascinating and perhaps even useful? I’ve now implemented GeoURL on my web site. Fascinating, though I’m not sure why. If you enter your location as latitude and longitude, it allows you to see what other sites are hosted…
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iBlog and long URLs
Having some trouble getting iBlog to work with long URL’s, for example one I devised which links to a PubMed search for material on medical education added to the database in the last thirty days. It seems to mangle them.…
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Why blog? The uses of blogging literacy
Having resisted blogging for a while, I suddenly find it interesting. There’s no denying that it is unbelievably self-indulgent, and I probably have little of consequence to say to the world, but browsing the blogs that are identified as librarianly…
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iBlog mysteries
Another thing: why can’t I display my e-mail and so on? Help suggests that you can set this using General Preferences, but there’s no such option. I wonder if this is because I downloaded a version from .Mac offered to…
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Brighton to London in 2003
One of the great things about this weblog is that it allows me to inflict my views on anything and everything on the world at large. So, for purely cathartic purposes, here is my account of a simple journey attempted…
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Blogger or iBlog
I started this blog using blogger , but have moved over to iBlog . While this restricts me to using the Mac (and only the Powerbook, the old G3 at home being too feeble to run OSX). I think I…
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This morning’s Times; library theft and the British Museum
Two stories of professional interest in this morning's Times : a report of a Danish librarian turned thief, now dead, who stole 3,200 books from the Danish Royal Library in Copenhagen. His widow and others were caught trying to sell…
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Perouse wins
Yes, he did it! "Quickened to lead approaching last, easily" said the Racing Post comments in running.Shalako and Thesis second and third respectively, but had no chance with winner. Where next?
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Cheltenham December meeting
I am a reformed character and not in any sense a betting man but it is hard to resist Perouse in the 1.10 at Cheltenham this afternoon. He won convincingly at Fontwell on Tuesday, "without extending himself " said the…
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Bad journey
For one train to be delayed is a misfortune… Ha! here we are in what was once one of the leading nations of the civilised world and every train I have been on so far this morning has been delayed.Shall…
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2003 Varsity Match
An 11-11 draw: Oxford looked very threatening from the start, and spent much of the game in Cambridge’s half. But in the last twenty minute Cambridge suddenly started playing and took the fight to Oxford. A good time was had…
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Reed Elsevier share price falls
This morning’s Times reports the fall in Reed Elsevier ’s share price, (the biggest yesterday of any company in the FTSE 100). The fall was caused by an announcement that they expected only a “high single digit” percentage increase in…
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Alan Davidson dead
Alan Davidson died: a great pity, a wonderful food writer, streets ahead of the jackanapes who posture as "celebrity chefs" . Times obit here . The only other obituary a Google news search turned up on the day of the…