Information Retrieval Failure Of The Week: I can be quite a div sometimes. Two students were looking for a video clip on our server, which I knew we had. Couldn't remember how it was categorised so instead of browsing I did a keyword search. It's a clip about Amélie Nothomb, so I cleverly deduced that her name would come up in a search. Nothing. I tried the programme title. Absolument rien. Tried just her last name in case it was accent-sensitive and not picking up the first name (it is a stupid system, after all). Still rien. Finally tried browsing and more through luck than skill hit on the correct category and sub-category and there she was. Why hadn't I found it when searching? Maybe because I'd spelt her name 'Northomb'. Yep. Cavalier abuse of proper names, the novice searcher's downfall. Shocking.Tags: information retrieval stupidity 17:50 . . .
Spent the weekend moving into our lovely LOVELY new flat. Ok, it's pretty small but it has central heating, a working fireplace, a garden and nothing visibly wrong with it (unlike the old place which seems like even more of a wreck now that we've emptied it of all the stuff that was covering up the damp patches, dead gas fires, dodgy paint jobs etc).Also I am back in my favourite area of Brighton, close to the Duke of Yorks, Sunny Foods, the Open Market, Preston Park AND I can now get the train to work again. Six minutes instead of forty!Tags: domesticity 11:10 . . .
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