Feeling Fruity

Xfruits stuff works well. I'm impressed, be interesting to see what Nicola's take on it is. That's if websense lets me near it! Closer to what I'm after than RSS Fwd which suffers from the granularity that is the strength of the stuff we're doing with Blinklist. It sends out a mail an item whereas xfruits sends out the feeds last 30 items. Sure it'll still need a little edit but won't overburden folk.

Of course all of this is required because of our strange insistence on using Explorer and a refusal to upgrade from Windows 2000 to XP which at least offers the possibility of IE7.

Sunday Morning Coffee Spills on the Sheets and It's Monday

AM

Tracy calls to let me know she won't be in. Stretched right now as a service. Nicola is at Library School, I'm due at the Heaf' and need to keep a low profile so a morning of closed library will be the result. Roll on January when we gain Helen.

The Heaf' PCT Librarians followed by The Commissioner, good people to see, some useful stuff, some stuff that makes me wanna scream. Usual stuff that does the latter and usual suspect is responsible. NHS colour palette comes up in conversation.

PM

Athens, implications further north that I chat to Michael about, he takes it better than I expect but then he has a potential fight on his hands with the situation up there.

Get back in time to deal with some pressing needs for articles to support interview presentations (word had got round that colleagues had found something useful - the something was vague and not specified though and of course when in competition with someone else you can hardly ask them what they've found - easier to ask your local librarian and I'm not knocking that,that's why we exist). Score some freebie stuff I wasn't expecting but then that's a bit of result. My FoI meeting seems to have had the rug pulled from underneath it without anyone telling me which is fine by me. Gives me time to locate some stuff that the requestor has been extremely vague about. Definitive today is not in anyone's vocab.

Monst calls to agree on the plans for the left over chicken from yesterday. Solution is suprisingly easily arrived at. I'm therefore bound for the Chung Wah supermarket on the way home.

Cheap amusement via the student nurse who is dragged in by the person she is on placement with, abandoned as they go off to do something more important. Sort her out with some teenage pregnancy material and that keeps her amused. Nurse education has a long history of keeping students busy by sending them to library.....

Evening

Xfruits tells me that it's added RSS to E-mail, RSS to OPML and OPML to Mobile bricks. The former looks very handy as a tool and I play with it briefly. Look forward to seeing some results out of it.