not really catching up

It's been a while, and I haven't got much to report on the 23things front apart from the fact I do intend to keep going with it.  I haven't really got to grips with Twitter and as for the hierachical vs horizontal bookmark arrangements, that hasn't been started.

I can make excuses for myself until the cows come home as to why this isn't the case...but fundamentally it comes down to guilt, guilt that I should be doing something slightly more, work related in work time.  Trying to get Twitter to work just seems like 'playing', trying to sort out the FdA Computing pathway reading list,  add QR codes and generally tidy it up, (and the other three I haven't started yet), is 'proper' work.  That coupled with all the North Road moving stuff is quite enough to keep me distracted from sitting down and doing some proper investigation. 

Ironic really considering my stock in trade used to be investigating stuff, and indeed I have in a past life spent time playing/investigating some digital representation software.  Not that it came to fruition but I did spend time with it.  The main problem was that all the really 'good' functionality had to be paid for, and as is often the case that put the kybosh on the whole thing.

So, what is the conclusion of tonight's philosophical rambling.  What I (and at least one other I have spoken to) need to get their heads around is that this "23 things" is proper work, not just an excuse to have spent an afternoon on the computer and potentially have not a lot to show for it. 

Maybe it's time to start scheduling 2 hours for 23 things alongside allocating a ridiculous number of hours to tidy up reading lists? 

Twitter, yet again and library quotes

I retweeted last week.  It was a nice quote about librarians.  I found some more as well.

“[Librarians] are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at the desk, all quiet and everything. They're like plotting the revolution, man. I wouldn't mess with them.”
― Michael Moore

“Google can bring you back 100,000 answers, a librarian can bring you back the right one.”
― Neil Gaiman

Neil Gaiman has another quite pithy quote about librarians, basically suggesting that our customers shouldn't mess us around, except more succinct.  I suspect that won't be included on the walls of the new North Road library, although seeing the sentiment inscribed across the lintel as students enter might encourage better behaviour.

Does any one else have some good quotes, maybe we could give them out as bookmarks with the studentship books...or maybe not.  Feel free to comment!