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My First GreaseMonkey

Posted on June 26, 2007
OK, so I'm admitting I'm a complete novice, but I just installed my first GreaseMonkey script and I'm feeling quite pleased with myself. I have now got a cute little monkey face (at the bottom of my browser window that is) and I can do some pretty clever stuff...

This Week's Useful Tools

Posted on June 23, 2007
Bookmarked: Lots of stock photos available at fotosearch, PicFindr and xcavator (where you can also search for photos by colour). Snap Zone - send mobile phone pics to Snap Zone and share them on the web. BAYIMG - image hosting from Pirate Bay. 123 Flickr - create Flickr galleries in seconds...

More Secret Feeds

Posted on June 22, 2007
I have been informed by the Government News Network (GNN) that they are now offering RSS news feeds. In order to get your hands on them you need to register for a free account. You can then select how you would like to receive your alerts, by email or RSS...

Anglo-American Legal Tradition

Posted on June 21, 2007
The Anglo-American Legal Tradition (AALT) website is pretty amazing stuff. It is the product of a collaboration between the University of Houston and the O'Quinn Law Library who have been working to digitise the UK court documents collection of the National Archives...

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Book Hacks

Posted on June 20, 2007
Lifehacker has a post entitled 'Book hacks for the library crowd', thats us that is! Includes: 'how to bind your own paperback' (and presumably make a right old mess of it). I'm off home to try this one now! Bookmark to:

Who Participates?

Posted on June 18, 2007
Business Week has some fancy charts detailing how different age groups are participating in online activities (US). Types of participation are broken down thus: Creators - they publish Critics - you can imagine Collectors - use RSS etc. these guys gather Joiners - as in social networking not woodwork Spectators - we like to watch Inactives - strictly Web 1...

Gratuitous Henry Fonda Pic

Posted on June 18, 2007
The BBC web site has an interesting piece on the Smith and Merceica trials and takes a look at the rules and pressures of the jury room. The article includes some of the stranger allegations concerning jurors: A murder conviction in 1994 was overturned after it emerged that four jurors had consulted a ouija board during a [...

This Week's Useful Tools

Posted on June 17, 2007
Just a few bookmarked this week: Blogger in draft - 'try out new Blogger features before they are published.' Creative Favicons from Smashing Magazine - a collection of favicons to inspire. Free button set and icons - from haha.nu PicLens - Firefox extension that lets you easily view and browse images in full screen mode, supported sites include: Flickr, [...

Fab Book Ads

Posted on June 16, 2007
Paper Cuts is a New York Times blog about books, they recently posted a slideshow of advertisements for books featured in the NY Times during the period 1962-1973. Some really good stuff on there. My favorite is pictured below. Via Your Daily Awesome and Slaw...

A Shiny New Supreme Court

Posted on June 14, 2007
Work has begun on the new Supreme Court. Middlesex Guildhall is being renovated as we speak and work is due to complete in October 2009. Lord Falconer: The highest court in the land should be open, accessible and independent. The Middlesex Guildhall will be transformed into a building suitable for such as important institution and [...

RSS Toolbox

Posted on June 12, 2007
The extremely clever clogs at Mashable have put together the Ultimate RSS Toolbox and it really is something to behold. Lots and lots of useful stuff. Go see. Bookmark to:

A New Code of Conduct for the Bar

Posted on June 12, 2007
The Bar Standards Board has announced plans to rewrite the Bar's Code of Conduct over a three year period, the first stage being a consultation launched today. Mark Stobbs, Director of the BSB, explains: We need to take a proper look at whether the code is fit for purpose and up to date...

A Day Without Google

Posted on June 12, 2007
Alt Search Engines is asking everyone to forgo Google for a day. 'A Day Without Google' or to be more precise - a day without Google, Yahoo!, MSN, AOL or Ask - is an attempt to encourage use of some of the alternative search engines. Tomorrow they are inviting you to write about your experiences [...

This Week's Useful Tools

Posted on June 10, 2007
Bookmarked this week: Freebies Round-up: Icons, buttons and templates from Smashing Magazine And introducing the Free Fonts Section on Smashing Magazine, worth bookmarking. Web Worker Daily reviews 7 apps for online note-taking Zootit - shortens URLs SythaSite - create very snazzy and professional looking web sites...

National Archives Wiki

Posted on June 06, 2007
The National Archives have launched the 'Your Archives' wiki. Ruth Selman, Knowledge and Information Manager at TNA: 'We have long been aware that users have information that adds to our catalogue descriptions but we havent had an easy way to publish that & Your Archives is designed to be clearly identifiable as a community space...

Thank You Joost!

Posted on June 06, 2007
For reuniting me with some old friends. Invites still available if you want em, just leave a comment. Bookmark to:

Court Working Dress

Posted on June 05, 2007
The response to the public consultationon court working dress was published today, thefull report is availableon the MoJ's web site, but some choice quotes are reproduced below: A wig concentrates attention on the judge as a judge rather than on them as an individual with idiosyncrasies...

Nina Katchadourian: The Sorted Books Project

Posted on June 02, 2007
The process is the same in every case: culling through a collection of books, pulling particular titles, and eventually grouping the books together into clusters so that the titles can be read in sequence from top to bottom. Nina Katchadourian: The Sorted Books Project Found via Your Daily Awesome Bookmark to:

What You Really Meant to Say

Posted on June 02, 2007
Lose your friends and alienate your family from the comfort of your own desk. someecards when you care enought to hit send. Favourites include: Son, Ive never been less ashamed of you.; I love you slightly more than I love dad.; and Lets pretend to get together soon...

hotcaptcha

Posted on June 02, 2007
Picture CAPTCHAs are fairly topical, hotcaptcha is a picture CAPTCHA with a twisted twist. To solve hotcaptcha you have to select the 3 hotties from a selection of men or women. This is pretty wicked and it admits as much with the tagline using mashups to reach new heights (or new lows?) in security...

This Week's Useful Tools

Posted on June 02, 2007
Bookmarked this week: Picasa2Flickr - plug-in that lets you upload photos from Picasa to Flickr. Keepm - manage your contacts. Easy HTML to any script converter - is what it says it is, also includes templates. Web 2.0 buttons, 3D style! from FranticIndustries - some nice free 3D buttons for RSS, Digg, del...

The Online Court

Posted on May 30, 2007
The Online Court is a brand new siteproviding stacks of useful information related to 'charges, scenarios, outcomes and sentences' in the Magistrates Court.Information is arranged by charge and presented ina question and answer format: which court will hear the case?; what is the guideline sentence?; what are the aggravating factors?; what are the mitigating factors?; [...

This Week's Useful Tools

Posted on May 26, 2007
Bookmarked this week: MailBigFile (brilliant name, me mail big file!) and zUploadallowyou toshare large files easily. FeedBlitz - RSS to email service. I have not tried this one, but apparently there are no ads! Google Translate - translation tool from Google...

Twittering Again

Posted on May 25, 2007
I have just started Twittering again after spotting some of my fellow UK law librarians on there and recieving some friend invites. It does make a lot more sense when theres a bit of a community atmosphere. My inane ramblings can be found at http://twitter...

BIALL Blog

Posted on May 24, 2007
The British and Irish Association of Law Librarians is blogging! Contributors include: Angela Donaldson, Fiona Durrant, John Franssen and James Mullan of LI Issues. The BIALL Blog Bookmark to:

Me and My Font

Posted on May 24, 2007
The BBC has asked its readers to declare their love for their favourite font and explain their reasoning. What is noticeable is the number of comments related to theuse offonts in passing off a dodgy essay: Students who need to write long essays, but have neither the time nor the material to fill their page quotas, [...

Reasons to be Cheerful # 4: BibMe

Posted on May 20, 2007
BibMe is billed as 'the quickest way to create a bibliography on the web'. And I have to admit it is pretty quick. You can search for a book, magazine or newspaper article, web site or film. Once found you can choose from MLA, APA or Chicago formatting...

This Week's Useful Tools

Posted on May 20, 2007
Bookmarked this week and heavy on the photo oriented apps: Profilefly - gather all your online profiles, contacts and bookmarks in one place. Fidg't - a social networking address book, 'unify buddy lists' and 'visualise social networking activity', interesting...

Blurring the Boundaries

Posted on May 17, 2007
Reading the Law Society's Gazette today & MoJ, LSC, Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers in a tracksuit & but wait, what's this? Ruth Barber (a.k.a. Ruthie, a.k.a. Geeklawyer's better half) reviewing Open Office? A few pages on- Nick Holmes and Nearly Legal quoted in an article about Second Life? Not to mention numerous references to [...

Joost

Posted on May 16, 2007
Thanks to the Jenny Levine I now have Joost. I was quite interested in having a go on this, especially since I don't have real telly (broken areial/social experiment) and am not all that anxious to get it fixed. I already have 4oD and friends with DVD recorders so whats the hurry? Especially with things [...

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