TV trivia of the day, which I have just noticed while perusing Gary “Bingo Bob” Cole’s IMDb entry: the last episode of The West Wing in which he appears is Requiem which is also the name of the last episode of American Gothic, in which he played sinister Sheriff Lucas Buck.

Don’t you feel better for knowing that?

So today I have started my new job. It is, as readers of Liberal Democrat Voice will be aware, as Internet Campaigns Officer for the Liberal Democrats.

What I post on politics from now on will be tempered by being a member of party staff (and I have ceased to be an editor on Liberal Democrat Voice for the same reason), but we’ll worry about that as and when. If anything, I’ll post more about work than in the past: previously I avoided doing so almost completely whereas now there will hopefully be interesting online projects to plug from time to time.

I’m working in a third floor office and have already been up and down the stairs several times. At this rate, I will be my target weight by February.

Last Day is a track by obscure indie band Silver Sun, but not the subject of this post.

Today is my last day at Napier, my last day working in Edinburgh, and my last day in the library world. (Fear not, the much loved Dewey Decimal posts will continue as infrequently as ever.) As alluded to recently, I am following in the footsteps of Richard and Steve (who has made a welcome return to blogging) by getting myself a new job. Like Mr Kitchen, I am heading to The Smoke.

That’s four years in libraries, moving from customer services to electronic resources to cataloguing to IT and encompassing such new terms as III, CLA, FOI, HERA, AACR2, MARC21, DDC22, RSS, OPAC, SDI, EDI, RFID, OCLC, LoC, BLDSC, NLS, SQL, PHP, ILLOS… But it’s time to move on to pastures new.

More on that story later; first I have a desk to clear, files to sort, papers to bin, etc. For the time being, have a look at today’s remarkably prescient Dilbert.

We’re better than the rest of you. The BBC says it so it must be true:

Left-handed people can think quicker when carrying out tasks such as playing computer games or playing sport, say Australian researchers.

Connections between the left and right hand sides or hemispheres of the brain are faster in left-handed people, a study in Neuropsychology shows. The fast transfer of information in the brain makes left-handers more efficient when dealing with multiple stimuli.

This explains why I am so good at Tetris.