(b)logophile

I had a run-in with the Gods of Traffic and Timetabling last night. Haven’t poured enough libations on the roadside recently, perhaps, or just plain insufficient grovelling. It’s a sad story, and an unnecessary one — I decided not to cycle yesterday because the day before my ears and fingers almost froze off, but in [...]

Programmers are supposed to possess the virtue of laziness: rather than doing something by hand, if they see a way to automate the process they’ll invest the time in doing that, so that the work itself can be done more quickly. This is supposed to save time in the long run, like an initial investment [...]

LibraryThing (where I’ve catalogued my pitiful bookcase) has added RSS feeds for a bunch of stuff: recently added books by user and tag, reviews, &c. &c. It’s probably not useful, per se, but definitely fun — and it does give a time-based view of a collection, which up until now has been missing.