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February, 2009:

Album covers

Here’s a fun meme that’s travelling round Facebook at the moment: The rules – Make an album cover out of sheer internet randomness! Show me your creative side! 1 – click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random The first random Wikipedia article you get is the name of your band. 2 – click http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3 The last four or five words of the very last quote on the page is the title of your first album. 3 – click http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover. Please only use images that are licensed under Creative Commons. 4 – use Photoshop [...]

Gmail – multiple inboxes

Last week Google launched multiple inboxes in Gmail. What an exciting new tool this is; it allows you to divide up your incoming messages yet still view everything in one screen. To use this feature you must first enable ‘Multiple Inboxes’ in the ‘Labs’ tab of your Gmail Settings. Once you’ve done this you can create new inboxes in the ‘Multiple Inboxes’ tab by placing is: in front of any label or category, e.g. is:starred or is:family. For me this tool has proved invaluable for splitting off my hockey emails from my regular inbox. To do this I set up [...]

A day in the life of a librarian – Friday

The following is a description of my day on Friday 30th January… 06:45 -up and at ‘em. You can probably guess the routine by now; shower, breakfast and out of the door to catch the bus. 08:25 – if there’s one thing writing up the details of my week has taught me it’s that I am bound by routine. I get to work, I check my personal email then open up Outlook and begin the work day checking what new things have come up overnight. 09:00 – it’s my final desk duty of the week and bound to be another [...]

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