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THE KING, originally uploaded by coquettish. Yesterday I was moving books (it’s basically all I do these days) and listening to old bits from The Football Ramble. Maybe it was the late hour in the day, the fact that I’d been moving books for hours, or maybe it was something more, but the Dean Windass…

Dirty hands, originally uploaded by Photos by Rose. For those of you following from afar – I’m still working at the library and we’re still going through big changes. One of the big projects we’re undertaking is a substantial weeding project. (Weeding is library speak for thinning the collection.) We’re not really sure how much…

Play dough f29, 1/4 s exposure, originally uploaded by Nick Treby. I was talking to a colleague yesterday about the new year. Consensus was that 2012 has to be better than 2011. 2011 sucked. It started ominously and ended with fatigue and weariness. It seemed like every week the situation changed. I lost my job.…

dive into python, originally uploaded by kendrak. Today on /. there is a story Searching for Mark Pilgrim., linking to the blog post of Eric Meyer. Just yesterday, I took a screenshot of the title page of Dive Into HTML5 to include in a presentation as a highly recommended resource. Now it’s gone. That site,…

Dwayne De Rosario and Torsten Frings, originally uploaded by dcunited. My last post here was pretty bleak, but then again the situation for many libraries is rather bleak right now. All is not lost though. After having some meetings and discussions, I have a much rosier view. Well, not rosier, but optimistic. We need to…