How to create dummy text in Word
There’s a nifty little trick in Microsoft Word which enables you to generate paragraphs of dummy text using the sentence ‘The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog’. In…
Goodbye IE7
I tried hard to like it, but ironically IE7 made me realise how much better Firefox is, and I’m now a Firefox zealot. It was all the websites that started…
IE7 – love it or hate it?
You can tell it’s raining, I just downloaded IE7, mainly because I’m keeping up with the Jones(es) who’s had it for ages. On balance, I think I hate it moderately.…
Man gets 9 years for spamming: hooray!
The BBC reports that a Jeremy Jaynes, apparently the world’s eighth most prolific spammer has been sentenced to 9 years in jail. All we need is for a few more…
Bangor University Library – worrying news?
No sooner had the thought crossed my mind, while I sat in Senate House Library last week, that great collections such as these may soon be endangered by investment in…
Shock horror – academics increasingly using blogs!
From the BBC news site: “Academics give lessons on Blogs“. That’s news is it? If there’s anything newsworthy in there at all, it’s that academics (not students, of course, who’ve…