Tom Roper's Weblog

Bluebells

Some pictures of a visit with mother and brother to Arlington Bluebell walk, Monday 9 May 2005

Currently playing in iTunes

Currently playing in iTunes: Hobo by The Curst Sons

Turnkey b2b enterprise-level web-based tea management solution infrastructure

This, via Wired News, is simply marvellous: Teabuddy.com

More on WiFi at the British Library

There's details on Heather Brooke's FoI website of her campaign about WiFi charges at the British Library: Your Right To Know.

Disruptive technologies

My wireless broadband router exploded over the Bank Holiday weekend. A new one is on its way, but may not arrive until the end of the week.
Consequently  the world may have to live without my insights for a little while, or at least without as many of them as I usually manage to post

Curst Sons

The Curst Sons were doubtless wonderful; I couldn't tell you, gentle reader, as I stood outside Brighton Komedia, hungry, wet, reading Georges Bataille and listening to the iPod, before asking the box office for "two tickets for the Curst Sons, my good man", only to be told it's sold out.
Rats

CILIP's RSS once more

CILIP's RSS feed now works. It looks as if there was a problem with the whole CILIP site this morning. And it validates nicely at Feed Validator, whereas mine gets the message "this feed is valid, but may cause problems for some users"
The explanation of RSS is a little superficial.

Interesting things to read

From DLib magazine: 
D-Lib Magazine
April 2005
Volume 11 Number 4
ISSN 1082-9873
Tony Hammond, Timo Hannay, Ben Lund, and Joanna Scott
Social Bookmarking Tools (I): A General Review.

And drawn to my attention by Bruce Madge:
Wade Roush on the Infinite Library in TechnologyReview.com

CILIP goes RSS

..or tries to. There's a press release sent to the lis-cilip list, but the page that's supposed to give details of the feeds gets this:
Server Error in '/' Application.
Runtime Error
Description: An application error occurred on the server. The current custom error settings for this application prevent the details of the application error from being viewed remotely (for security reasons). It could, however, be viewed by browsers running on the local server machine.

Details: To enable the details of this specific error message to be viewable on remote machines, please create a <customErrors> tag within a "web.config" configuration file located in the root directory of the current web application. This <customErrors> tag should then have its "mode" attribute set to "Off".

New Brighton library

There's no holding me now I have a camera phone.