Tag: bodleian
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That time I got locked-in at the V&A
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One time, I got locked-in at the V&A Museum after closing-time. I'd been there for a museums & cultural institutions event and I'd probably had a few too many glasses of champagne before I excused myself to return to my hotel. Unfortunately in my … -
My Salary History
Inspired by Jeremy Keith doing the same, I've made the salary history of my career transparent.
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Letting Games Die
Inspired by Mike Cook's argument that old video games should be allowed to die, I was inspired to jot down some of my own thoughts and experiences in the area of video game preservation.
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Reply to Ed Catmull on Change
Matt talked about change, and mentioned the history of WordPress. I weighed-in, talking about my (positive) experience of open source in an environment of change, and contrasting it to fighting with Squiz CMS at the Bodleian!
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Reading more rolled papyri
In kind-of local news, I see that the folks at Diamond Light Source (which I got to visit last year) have been helping the Bodleian (who I used to work for) to X-ray one of their Herculaneum scrolls (which I've written about before). That's really cool.
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XPath Scraping AdamKoszary.co.uk
My old colleague Adam's started blogging again, but his blog doesn't have an RSS feed. Which means it's time for some more XPath Scraping in FreshRSS, and an excuse for me to explain the testing and debugging process I use when making XPath Scraping rulesets!
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Out as Poly at Work
I've been "out" about my polyamory in every job I've had for the last 20+ years. I recommend it.
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Reading Rolled Papyri
Researchers using x-ray tomography have for the first time managed to read an entire word from one of the carbonised Herculaneum scrolls, and that's awesome.
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Bodley and the Bookworms - Scan and Deliver
Dan's old coworkers at the Bodleian perform "Scan and Deliver", a copyright-library-themed Adam and the Ants cover.
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Maps that Talk
Dan's former colleague Nick Millea shows off some artefacts that didn't make it into the Bodleian's Talking Maps exhibition.
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Without The Bod
Dan celebrates his final day at the Bodleian with drinking, games, and rap music.
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Shredding eight years of old payslips
Finally convinced he's not going to need them any longer, Dan shreds 8 years of past Bodleian payslips.
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Using the Web for Exhibition Interactives
As he writes up notes for his successor, Dan explains how the Bodleian's interactive digital signage uses the power of the Web.
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Counting Down
I wasn't sure that my whiteboard at the Bodleian, which reminds my co-workers exactly how many days I've got left in the office, was attracting as much attention as it needed to. If I don't know what my colleagues don't know about how I do my job, I can't write it into my handover notes.
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"One of the best things about working at The Bodleian... Pretending to be a PhD student..."
Dan's boss posted pictures to her LinkedIn of her pretending to be a PhD student, so Dan shares the ones he was in (and some social media featuring his kids).