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December, 2008

  1. Dewey

    December 22, 2008 by dafyd

    Piles of my books being sorted

    I’ve decided to sort my books. I have four bookcases in my room, giving 21 shelves, and another two cases in the attic. Lots of books, most of which are where they are simply because that’s the only place there was room for them.

    So now they’re not on the shelves, but rather on the floor. Yay. All are being catalogued and sorted, and will then be reshelved according to an approximation of the Dewey Decimal System. An approximation, because there are various books/types of book that I want/have to put in different places.

    Various facts and figures:

    • I’ve catalogued 750 books so far, and haven’t started on those in the attic.
    • I’ve only found 3 duplicates (as in, exactly identical books). One’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, one is Pears Ultimate Quiz Companion, and one is a 1964 Livres de Poche edition of Zola’s Germinal.
    • There are 34 Harry Potter books on my shelves, in five languages, with only the one duplicate.
    • Somewhat inevitably, the busiest Dewey numbers are 440 and 840 (French Language and French Literature, respectively).
    • The ISBN was invented before the barcode.

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  2. Slow news day

    December 6, 2008 by dafyd

    BBC - no news

    The BBC homepage at 2.15 this afternoon…

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  3. We apologise for the interruption

    December 4, 2008 by dafyd

    So, I’ve been told off several times in the past couple of weeks for not having blogged since the beginning of August. I sincerely apologise. It was not my intention to let down my, literally, dozens of readers. Truth be told, I broke my blog publishing system just after that post, and I simply never got round to fixing it. Until now.

    So, shiny new site. And a shiny new domain at dafydjon.es – see what I did there? (dafyd.me.uk/dafydjones.co.uk will continue to work, of course – I just have some ideas for the different domains that may come to something eventually.)

    I’m quite a fan of my Snapshots pages, which presents all of my photos from Flickr in a new light. Sort of. (Geeky aside: there’s some heavy-duty PHP fu happening with the Flickr API pulling those photos in here – if you’re interested, I’d be happy to explain what’s happening.)

    The Footprints page tracks what I’m doing elsewhere on the web, just in case you were bothered.

    There will, inevitably, be broken links and files that no longer exist. If you’re looking for something in particular, give me a shout and I’ll hunt it out for you. Oh, comments on blog entries now work properly. Yay.

    There are various things that I want to add, features that were on the old site that I’ll be bringing across as well as some super-duper new stuff.

    For those who care, this is version 5 of my site. Version 4 was (more or less) alive for just over four years. Definitely time for an update.

    So, more blogging to come shortly. Much has happened over the past few months, some of which I will be sharing.

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