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June 13, 2005
You wait years for an OUSFG librarian then two come along at once
So I signed up to the no2id refusenik pledge and, skimming the list of signers, thought I recognised the name next but one to mine.
Turns out that Archie Maskill, like me, is not only an OUSFG alumnus but also a former OUSFG librarian, one of those rare individuals trusted with the precious yards of tattered Xanth books and the rather more precious brightly coloured plastic mugs.
Small world.
And it sounds like the legendary Mr Cray might be making it three...?
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What you need, my boy, is a LiveJournal feed of your blog. Then many OUSFGii will read your effusions.
HGP
Posted by: Harvey Pengwyn at Jun 16, 2005 5:27:49 AM
Thanks, I'm happy with Typepad, though if you know of a way to route it into a LiveJournal, that would be of interest.
What *would* be really useful is a dictionary of OUSFG people to LiveJournal usernames. Can anybody oblige?
Posted by: Ivan Towlson at Jun 16, 2005 10:42:58 PM
If you started with a user such as mr_snips and looked at his friends list you could probably deduce such a thing. I believe it is 'not done' to be too explicit about this sort of thing.
Paid users of LJ are allowed to route RSS feeds into LJ, I believe a Mr Celestial Weasel could probably be persuaded to do this, having done this for Mr. Cray. What would you like it to be called and in what terms should Mr Weasel advertise it to his friends on LJ?
HGP
Posted by: Harvey Pengwyn at Jun 17, 2005 8:47:44 AM
There's at least one other OUSFG ex-librarian who signed the No2ID petition : Duncan Martin. Perhaps we've all just learnt that no matter how much time and effort is spent in perfecting a cataloguing system, people tend to break it by using it incorrectly. Bah.
Posted by: Archie Maskill at Aug 9, 2005 11:36:00 AM