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HOSTC: not there yet

No  sign yet on the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee page of the  government response to Scientific Publications: Free for all?
The report was supposed to go up at 0001 this morning; it's now 750 GMT. I'l keep checking throught the day

As I was taking the horses to water

Heard on CD Review yesterday morning, from ‘Plaisir d’amour – Chansons & romances de la France d’autrefois’:
Claire Lefilliatre, Brice Duisit, Isabella Druet (singers)
Le Poeme Harmonique, Vincent Dumestre (guitar, theorbo & director)
ALPHA 513 (CD);
"As I was taking the horses to water
I heard the cuckoo sing;
It said, in its language,
'They're going to bury your beloved'
...
My beloved replies from her cofffin:
'I'm neither asleep nor dozing,
I'm awaiting you in hell.
See, my mouth is full of earth
And yours is full of love.
There's a place beside me
And it's being kept for you"

Down Royal, Doncaster and Wincanton

The first international rugby of the season today and tomorrow, and the jumps get more and more interesting, so for today my selections are:
Down Royal 235: Beef or Salmon
Doncaster 255: Turbo
Wincanton 310: Royal Auclair
Wincanton 340: Rigmarole

A fine blog by Scott

Tipped off by a mutual friend, I discover T. Scott Plutchak has drawn his blogging pen. Hurrah!

John Branston on Patrick Hamilton: Love and Death in Publand

From London's The Morning Star (Wednesday 3rd November 2004); reproduced by kind permission of the author, John Branston
Love and Death in Publand
IN FOCUS: Patrick Hamilton
JOHN BRANSTON gets to grips with the darkly prophetic novels of Patrick Hamilton, whose troubled life was mirrored by his writing.
See also the photographs

HOSTC: publication time brought forward

Just heard that the publication time of the electronic version of Responses to the Committee's Tenth Report, Session 2003–04: Scientific Publications: Free for all? has been brought forward to 00.01 on Monday 8th November. So go online just after Andy Kershaw.

Government response to Scientific Publications: Free for all?

The government response to Scientific Publications: Free for all? will be published next Monday, 8th November at 10 am GMT. Intriguingly, the press notice says "this Report consists of the Government’s and other responses to the Committee’s original Report as well as a further Report by the Committee".

Our Hidden Lives: Publishing everyday diaries

The Centre for Life History Research here at the University of Sussex are holding a diary event, Our Hidden Lives: Publishing everyday diaries, on 17 November 2004. I'm speaking, on the blog as diary, but don't let that put anyone off.

Transliteration of classical Greek

I'm perturbed by news on lis-rare-books that the Library of Congress is proposing to change their advices on transliteraing classical Greek, instiutionalising the inappropriate modern Greek practice of ioticisation. I can't see that they've actually put these proposals up on their web site, but wiser people than me are opposing them fiercely.

Wetherby Charlie Hall Chase and Breeders Cup Day

Chepstow 225 Very Optimistic
Wetherby 250 Grey Abbey
Newmarket 310 Quito
Wetherby 325 Crystal d'Ainay
Newmarket 345 Kamanda Laugh

And this evening at Lone Star Park:
620: Storm Flag Flying
735: Six Perfections
955: Powerscourt
1035: Pleasantly Perfect