Quædam cuiusdam

The program for this year’s Ticer summer school has been announced. Under the heading Digital Libraries à la Carte, it will be held the week of Aug. 25 at the University of Tilburg in the Netherlands. I was lucky enough to attend last year and found it stimulating and informative; if I had the budget I’d make it a regular stop. I see they’ve got Herbert Van de Sompel to speak about OAI-ORE this year, and Birte Christensen-Dalsgaard addressing the next-gen OPAC. Ah, to be in Tilburg in August! If you can get there, do.

Blogging about the weather is the lowest form of blogging, but it’s hard to think about anything else at the moment. It started snowing on Saturday and kept it up pretty steadily until this afternoon. All the while, a north wind has diligently moved a white wave into our carport. Off the trailing edge of the carport roof a cornice developed:

It is the mocking face of Winter, forming before our eyes. By tomorrow I expect it to have horns.

Or rather to the window ledge just outside ITS: a pigeon has laid an egg, and she and her mate are now trying to build a nest under it. They spend the day fetching little sticks but they don’t have much to show for it. If they had taken the trouble to prepare a Gantt chart, they would have got things the right way round, instead of spending their prep time just smearing the windows and the ledge with crud. But no one ever listens.