Tom Roper's Weblog

Irish 2000 Guineas Day: Ascot, Newmarket, Haydock and the Curragh

Ascot 120: Self Defense
Ascot 150: Tanzanite
Ascot 220: Partners in Jazz
Newmarket 330: Borehan
Haydock: 345: Sir Gerard
The Curragh 355: George Washington

MLA and a podcast

A Technorati search hasn't picked up very much from this year's MLA in Phoenix so far, apart from Scott's postings.
However, Talis did organise a podcast involving delegates and others, which made me wonder if this might also be possible at July's Health Libraries Group conference in Eastbourne.

A correction: if I had used a more sophisticated and professional Technorati search strategy, then, as Michelle points out in her comment, I would have found hers and more.
Here's a list, and sorry for omitting you:
The Krafty MLA Blog (a collaborative effort involving four bloggers)
Professional Notes (Stewart Brower)
Michelle Frisque: Library 2.0

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Isle of Wight marathon

I only let running spill over into the mainstream blog when I run a race. So let it be known that today I finished the Isle of Wight Marathon in 4 hours, 10 minutes and 40 seconds, a personal best for the distance.

Newbury and Nottingham

Newbury 210: Distinction
Newbury 245: Soviet Song
Newbury 320: Pearly King
Nottingham 335: Indian Maiden

Play Blair bingo with the London Review of Books

The new London Review of Books arrived this morning, with a fabulous competition: to win a bottle of champagne and £100 to spend in the best bookshop in London, their own, all you have to do is to guess correctly the date on which Tony Blair will leave office. There's no entry form on the web site, so any one wanting to enter will have to buy a copy, which will do no one any harm at all, even if only you only look at the legendary personals.
Example: "Justify my strop. 24/7 PMS-suffering woman seeks man to 35 prone to inadvertently saying the wrong thing (which is everything) at the wrong time (which is always). If you whistle, I will kill you. You have been warned. Chocolate (lots of it, please) to box no NNN"
There's also an interesting diary by John Sutherland on trends in book-selling.

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MLA

I shall not be in Phoenix, sadly. I am very sorry to miss it, though there are other, better British delegates present.
The high point of the social programme for me would have been the Bearded Pigs gig, the world's first and possibly only open access band. We had hoped to have the Pigs playing at HLG in Eastbourne, but it was not to be.
To enjoy a vicarious MLA I have set up a Technorati watchlist. I wonder how many will be blogging MLA this time? The redoubtable Scott will, I'm sure, indeed he has already started.

The other MLA

Just as the real MLA is about to start in Phoenix, I came across, on the Valve, a fascinating session at the other one:
Meet the Bloggers; or, Another MLA Panel You Dread Attending

Love Libraries

The sick-makingly-named Love Libraries campaign hit the papers today with endorsements from 150 writers, in the broadest sense of the word. The press seized on J K Rowling's statement, there are some I've never heard of, though that may be my ignorance and one wonders about the inclusion of some of the others: Jeffery Archer, for example? If we're concerned with branding I'm not sure Thatcherite ex-cons are quite the people we should be associating with. I wonder if they could not have given the list a bit more intellectual weight. But this is perhaps carping....if it makes the government rethink, it must be a good thing.

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Newmarket, Beverley and Limerick

Newmarket 255: Balkan Knight
Newmarket 330: Tabadul
Beverley 345: Common Creeper
Limerick 400: Adajal

Once more on Google Tips of the Trade

Pam Saenger of Google has e-mailed (see her comment on the original post). Non-US participants are welcome (though Google say they can't film you). Go to http://www.google.com/support/librariancenter/bin/request.py to submit.
Google seem to have quite a big UK presence now, though: http://www.google.co.uk/jobs/index.html (interest declared, I looked at this to see if they might give me a job :-))...it might not be beyond the wit of man for someone from London, Oxford or Manchester to wield a camcorder, or to accept video submissions

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