More Comebacks than Gary Glitter!

First day in a while I've felt like blogging and I do so with a fair amount of paranoia on side. On the plus side I'm reading through the whole of this thing and performing the blog equivilent of some ethnic cleaning. As a result I think when it's all done it should be somewhere towards the draft bloggers code. Probably a good thing long term. Does raise a few on blog/off blog issues. Clearly in may respects I've discovered the Voltaire sanction ("I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it") is something that maybe only I live with and believe in.

Anyway, Friday was dreadful, thoroughly depressed. Saturday morning was equally bad until a trip to the No Mercy where I met B. Bought the boy a book to record spells in (well that's what he told me). Good to see B. and the few minutes conversation reassured me that all wasn't as dark as I thought. Still more than a little depressed to the extent I don't go near the news or stuff I'd usually get done. The result is that I'm behind on everything this week. Paranoia strikes big time, it's all my fault that Spurs equlised, I didn't turn the radio off in time. Sunday I was a little more cheery but not much more. Receive an email from an old friend which was incredibly welcome. Replied and it geave me some sort of outlet.

Monday and I'm reminded why I do what I do for a living. A day when many of my fave readers pass through the email or library. Some good humour directed my way which is well received. Reflect on the fragility of confidence I have in myself. Suspect few people I know would realise its there unless they read this thing enough to read between the lines. Much welcome support within the crew. Increased by Tuesday. They're a good bunch but I knew that anyway.

Tuesday and open forum, revealing and requires some thought around our priorities and matching them to the organsations. Gain goss from elsewhere in the place that is useful soft intelligence. See some good folk and generally do the networking thing principally with JH. FoI work comes in thick and fast. Four requests today, 2 straightforward, 2 pigs (1 involves a visit upstairs that results ina bit of a greylit hunt along the way, other means a few days need to be spent up Norf!). Invite to add some stuff to a West Midlands e-learning resource. Irony seems strong right now!

Got to ask does any of this make sense now? Seems to lack a certain honesty to me.

Bad Blogger

Apologies about break in blogging, I've been a bad blogger which is a bit like being a bad dog....

However before I scribble about events for this week which will happen later tonight, a quick plug for the Commissioner the North West PCT Librarian's Current Awareness service for those involved in commissioning, which now has Supplement 2 added to its content. Well worth a look if mental health is your bag.

Jack Kerouac is Out in the Back

Leave Fade at 10:00 'cos I don't want to be late up Norf. Carlisle gig is fun (another RSS/Blogging gig for Shan), nice folk with a good buzz of ideas about how to exploit the stuff I point them in the direction of. Blinklist seems to go down well. Nice venue, any health service gaff with a view of bullocks can't be bad. Dunno why we don't have more meetings up this far, it's only a coupla hours up the road. Cool beginnings of a team blog up here too (Library and Web Services). Drive up is a little rain bound but I listen to 'Tommy' loud and proud and the views are good, way back and Yo La Tengo are on the job. Even see some sun.

Home and greeted by a hungry cat, she ain't alone as I feed myself too. Couple of glasses of red, little bit of work, bit of shite TV. Chat to Kitty who tells me news of ill health in Scotland (Sharon's Aunt Margaret). Text Monst with the latest. Recieve news from Delhi, they've scooted round New Delhi today. Cal has kipped and that's as much as I know. Lots of pics promised though!

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Film of the Bungy Jump

Through the wonders of You Tube here comes the film of the Auckland Bungy Jump

Right now my head is still marginally wrecked by the dreaded jetlag as I try and sort the technorati tags for the posts wile I've been away. On the jetlag front we got back on what I was convinced was Wednesday (turns out it was Wednesday, Friday therefore was naturally Thursday it was only the marginal increase in crap sitcoms on TV that alerted me to the fact it was in fact Friday). Slept most of yesterday afternoon and again from about 8.00. Woke at 3.00 this morning, frantically trying to stay awake today to try and reach some level of normality. Meanwhile poor Monst returns to work tonight

Yesterday we ordered prints from a CD we'd burnt at Boots at the No Mercy, followed that with a lunch of Pizza at the Pizza Hut and I went to the Ying Wah when I surfaced from my afternoons kip. Other than that Flickr photo's, just Monsts to go. Returned to the No Mercy to fetch photies and in search of this years Arsenal kit for the boy for PE purposes. Success on the former not on the latter. Monst will sort in the week.

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Rigid Digits

Furl is acting the goat again making doing the news today a bit of a more evil experience than usual. Seem to have got round the issue in the main though.

Head up to Sainsbury's to fetch some food for tonight and for Cal's packed lunches over the week. Suprised to find a Stiff Little Fingers compilation for a low price. I buy it more because the thought of SLF in genteel Woolton amuses me.

Afternoon plan is to listen to Manure face the might of Burton Albion.

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Censor's Scissors

Get out of MySpace, bloggers rage at Murdoch - The Independent 08/01/06

Angry members of MySpace, the personal file-sharing website for young adults, are accusing Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation of censoring their postings and blocking their access to rival sites.

The 38 million subscribers to MySpace, which News Corp bought for $629m (355m pounds) last July, discovered that when they wrote to each other about rival video-swapping site YouTube, the words were automatically deleted, and attempts to download video images from YouTube led to blank screens.

Not that suprising given Murdoch's track record. Of course they deny it...... Technorati Tags: Blogging; Censorship; Murdoch

Thank You For the Days

Spend most of the day trying to sort a decent tag cloud for Exhibit B quite revealing in several respects. Move the cloud up and down and on and off the template like a whore's knickers. Try using anchors to sort an easy link, end up comprmising with text and an external page. Not what I wanted but illustrates some learning needs for me. Screams and the like. Plague everyone with questions and kind constructive advice flows from Tracy, Christina and Dave. Much appreciated. Also reveals that clouds aren't as intuitive as I think they are. Tag the latest Exhibit B and things are cool. Afternoon a call from Lisa who tells me of her new job over with Eileen as Clinical Librarian at Arrowe. This is very kind of her and I know she'll be cracking in the role. Think that Eileen's begining to develop a nice little team round her and I'm pleased for both of them. That's not to say that Sally who thought about it as a job wouldn't have done an equally good job, I'm convinced she would have and would have been a similar asset to the crew over there. Home, feed myself 'cos Cal and Monst were off to the pictures after school with Helen and Lonen. Open a bottle of Broadside and veg infront of the TV. Play with my own template as I wait for the folks. Technorati Tags: Adnams Broadside; Blogging; Templates; Tagging; Arrowe Park