Tom Roper's Weblog

Bearded pigs blog

Bruce the Almighty tells me that the Bearded Pigs now have a blog

New Brighton library in Guardian

Jonathan Glancey on the new Brighton library in the Gurdian. He likes it; I look forward to seeing it at the CILIP Sussex Branch AGM on 4 April

Upcoming.org

Having discovered upcoming.org, I thought I'd experiment with it using the Leslie Morton memorial conference as an example. It seems to work well, although it seemed to want to locate the Royal Society of Medicine in East Sussex. But the test of it will be if other participants use it. So if you're going, have a look and add something. You have to register, but I can see this sort of tool being extremely worthwhile in future.

New Leslie Morton obituary

As we prepare for Thursday and Friday's events to commemorate the life of Leslie Morton, the BMJ publishes an obituary to add to those already listed here.

Sussex Beacon Half Marathon

It's not my practice to overload this blog with references to my running which would be a tedious waste of bandwidth, but I do record races I have taken part in. So see the marathon training blog for an account of today's Sussex Beacon Half Marathon.

Hat and gloves on offer

Infra dig. I know, to blog about amusing doings of one's pets (sorry, I meant to say companion animals) but the cat Eustace is bound for the furrier's to be made into a handsome pair of gloves and matching hat. He jumped onto the table, landed clumsily on my PowerBook keyboard and, scrabbling for a pawhold, managed to pull  off the 'c' and 'v' keys and the spacebar. I am now writing a Perec-style novel which makes no use of these letters and has no spaces between words. This was composed using my wireless keyboard.

Fairyhouse, Haydock, Uttoxeter and Wincanton

225 Haydock: Baron Windrush
305 Wincanton:Inglis Drever
335 Wincanton: Royal Auclair
350 Uttoxeter: Knock de la Vesvre
405 Fairyhouse: Kildare Minor

RSS Research at Talis

Talis, who make the library management system used by both the University of Brighton and the University of Sussex, are doing some interesting work on RSS as a communication tool between libraries and users
Link: RSS Research at Talis.

Akropolis World News

At last! The news in classical Greek: Akropolis World News.

Ranganathan

From walking paper: you may or may not get this. Of course, I was talking about Ranganathan at a dinner part only the other day, he said loftily.