Misc Hamster wheeling .... I have found the expression ‘hamster wheeling’ useful over the last few years. I tend to use it in the Lorcan Jun 14, 2011 1 min read
Misc Elected ... I thought it would be nice to record that a couple of my colleagues had recently been elected to positions Lorcan May 11, 2011
Misc Open for business Well, I wish I could say I was back by popular demand … but that might be stretching the truth just Lorcan Jan 21, 2011
Meta Presenting .... Although I give quite a few presentations, I don’t really present enough for them to become ends in themselves. Lorcan Oct 3, 2010 2 min read
Misc A note about Tracey Thorn A little off topic … I have been listening to Tracey Thorn’s new album, Love and its opposite [https://www. Lorcan May 21, 2010 1 min read
Meta The Reader and the Law Eddi Reader is a Scottish singer, formerly of Fairground Attraction. I was aware of Fairground Attraction but really only began Lorcan Apr 30, 2010 1 min read
Misc Working organizations Via @psychemedia [https://twitter.com/Psychemedia] I saw this advert for a CIO at the Open University in the UK. Lorcan Feb 28, 2010 1 min read
Misc All the news ... My former OCLC colleague Eric Hellman has become one of the more interesting bloggers in our space. A little while Lorcan Jan 30, 2010 2 min read
Misc Talking to people I am interviewed occasionally for a report somebody is preparing. Sometimes internal, not for publication, sometimes published. It is always Lorcan Jan 24, 2010 1 min read
Misc Comments Apologies to commenters – we had some hiccups. Some were delayed and a couple may have been lost. We will try Lorcan Jan 21, 2010
Books Government URIs: a write to reply Tony Hirst [https://ouseful.wordpress.com/] alerted me to an interesting document on the structure of URIs in UK government Lorcan Oct 17, 2009 1 min read
Misc Find on a plane ... After many years of traveling without much incident I left a couple of things on planes recently. They never showed Lorcan Jun 4, 2009