County Council Elections May 2013

April 13, 2013

ImageI see that you have ‘googled’ me, as I am standing in the Staffordshire County Council as a TUSC candidate. Would you like to know more about me? What I stand for? What I will do for you if you select me as a councillor. Visit http://www.tuscstafford.org.uk/

I will be canvassing on Sunday 21st of April, in the Stafford South East district, so please save up any challenging and important questions to ask me! Also feel free to Contact Me by Email if you are undecided about who to vote for, and would like ask me some further questions.

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Welcome to 12 Things Librarians….

September 18, 2012

Welcome to all the Librarians taking part in the 12 Things social media programme. Hope you are enjoying it, and you found my blog of infrequent updates and occasionally informative posts!

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LED Light Tube Bicycle Light

January 17, 2012

Light Tube Bike Light

Quick creation for my bike. Light tube from Poundland, and a torch mount for rifle barrels from eBay.

I am really impressed by what a great bike light it makes. Cost around £3.50, and much brighter than most LED rear lights.

I keep a small Knog light on my bike however, just in case. It was from Poundland after all!

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In other cat related news

August 12, 2011

From the ever brilliant local newspapers, came a front page I just had to share. All the local newspapers in Stafford are a great read, especially as they focus mainly on bin related news and spinechilling tales of ’young people seen hanging around at the park’  (The park that has a modus operandi of ‘place where young people of the local area can hang out’). Never a dull moment!

But getting a whole two cat related articles on the front page of the newspaper is in my opinion a work of art, especially as one article should actually read ’Cat may have been put in skip, or then maybe not, or perhaps it was?’ ! Sherlock Holmes would be shocked.

And its not like there isn’t any other News Going On At The Moment.

Note: To the people who lost cats, sorry to hear about that. I am fond of the furry things myself (comes with the Librarian badge I suppose), so I hope they catch the awful people responsible for killing your cats.

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DIY Library Catalogue Computer

June 17, 2011
 
Or how to create a Library Catalogue Computer for free(ish), with whatever you have in the store cupboard, using Linux and the tame e-resources Librarian (That’s me).
 
The Library where I work has so far been succumbing to my evil machinations, specifically on the theme ‘Put Linux on everything that doesn’t work properly’. I have no desire to constantly fiddle with unreliable IT resources, not when I have far more productive things to do.
 
Our newish Linux Web server and Content Management System has been, if not a roaring success, at least a loud hurrah. And it hasn’t caused me a single significant problem since I hit the ‘online’ switch.  And it’s cheap, which is jolly good news.
 
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Music that makes you go faster!

May 30, 2011

Yesterday I managed to knock 20 minutes off a 1.5 hour bike route I ride regularly on Cannock Chase.

The only difference was the new Track listing on my MP3 player, mainly very loud music that I wouldn’t listen to in polite company.

So in the spirit of sharing, I list the music that should now be banned, along with cheese and crisp sandwiches and hobnobs as my own personal performance enhancing drug.

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A gripping yarn, featuring my seriously old computer graphics card.

March 31, 2011

I have sitting in my computer something old enough in computer terms to be regarded as a true survivor, an Nvidia Quadro NVS 280 graphics card. It is sitting there in a rather unassuming (although slightly coquettish) manner, but I thought it really needed a bit of recognition.  Read the rest of this entry »

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A quick interlude

January 17, 2011

My bi-yearly blog entry is as ever random, however I have been working on something longer. All about my experiences using Calibre, Linux and a Kindle for all my e-book reader needs. Spoiler, its pretty awesome.

In the interim, here’s a picture of the top tube of my single-speed road bike.

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Holiday in Scotland

August 1, 2010

A candle outside my tent on the banks of Loch Lomond.  The weather was uncharacteristically excellent, although the midges were swarming with a furious vengeance.

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My salad bring all the vegetarians to my yard, and they’re like, it’s significantly crunchier than ours.

July 3, 2010

My herb and salad garden seems to be going great. Without any pesticides and only organic fertiliser. It is strange to think only a few months ago this was nothing but an overgrown pile of broken glass and numerous large unidentifiable metal objects.

The wooden stakes? They are a frame for a DIY cloche I made to speed up the growth of the seedlings with sheets of recycled plastic painting sheets. It worked a treat!

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