This is a horrible idea - that the British population of swifts is declining so quickly that they may vanish from the country altogether ( Read more... )

This entry from Tetrapod Zoology is both disheartening and depressing, and a reminder to me that it's no good allowing personal problems and stresses to obscure the need for personal action. A lot of things I used to do and value have changed - my carbon footprint has gone through the roof as a result of massively increased travel, I don't take a ( Read more... )

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La Roux - Quicksand

It's perhaps a little embarrassing that I was alerted to this through the Guardian, but how great is it? So great. She's only 20 as well. I feel aged.

... not stationary, arf arf...

I am looking for a notebook with about five divisions - I don't care if they're divided by colour or tabs or whatever - a bit like the Moleskine info book but with blank tabs (the divisions in the moleskine one are a bit twee and it's annoying that they've decided what you should use the notebook for - 'bed', ' ( Read more... )

... astonished at the number of women who change their name at marriage. In this day and age ( Read more... )

.. thoroughly disturbed to learn of the existence of Georgette Heyer/Harry Potter crossover slashfic. Truly we live in the Latter Days.

Actually I don't know why I'm surprised at all...

Hur hur.

Does a dataset compiled from three-hundred-year-old sources, for which I have myself set the boundaries and query-ability (largely based on 'can I transcribe this without getting a headache?' and 'will Access cough if I try to do THIS with it?') count as 'real data'? Or, in other words, will I ever be eligible for funding from the ESRC?

My (second-hand) iBook G4 seems to be developing a habit of sending itself to sleep randomly, and then refusing to wake up. Last time it did this when I was in full flow at Goldsmiths' Hall archive; this time, when I got to London Metropolitan Archives, I never even got started. Infuriating. Last time, I let it run down completely (while still ( Read more... )

I thought I had about twenty days to write (and do the bulk of research for) a 30-minute workshop paper. I don't! I have TEN NINE.

HALP!

Decent and cheap places to have lunch around King's Cross, anyone? There's the Pizza Express opposite the BL, I know; also cheapo dosa houses on Drummond Street; any others?