Below is an excerpt from a MARC record, the fields of interest are the author listed in field 100 and the contributor listed in the second 700 field. The names are the same, the birth date, highlighted, is wrong in field 100 and correct in field 700. I can write code to catch this kind of error and correct it, but I don't think the same person will be listed as author and contributor very often.

100 1  $aKnickerbocker, H. R.$q(Hubert Renfro),$d1998-1949.
245 10 $aWill war come in Europe? /$cby H.R. Knickerbocker ; with an introduction by J.W. Wheeler-Bennett.
260    $aLondon :$bJohn Lane,$c1934.
300    $axiv, 276 p. ;$c19 cm.
500    $aAmerican edition (New York, Farrar and Rinehart, incorporated) has title: The boiling point; will war come in Europe?
651  0 $aEurope$xPolitics and government$y1918-1945.
651  0 $aGermany$xPolitics and government$y1933-1945.
651  0 $aEurope$xKings and rulers.
700 1  $aWheeler-Bennett, John Wheeler,$cSir,$d1902-1975.
700 1  $aKnickerbocker, H. R.$q(Hubert Renfro),$d1898-1949.$tBoiling point will war come in Europe?
740 0  $aBoiling point, will war come in Europe?

External links

• Full MARC record
• Open Library record

I'm excited to see a new data dump of English Wikipedia available for download. First one since October 2008, "dump activity is not considered time-critical".

Waitrose have started selling ready peeled garlic cloves in a plastic pot. These were all reduced, which means they're not selling. They're convenient and you're not getting any small cloves, you can see they're are all a similar size. On the other hand, putting them in a plastic pot means extra packaging. I don't think peeling garlic takes that much time. Looks like ASDA are selling a similar product.

Today Jane and I went to Islington farmers market at William Tyndale school, behind Islington town hall. When I checked the map, I was excited to see lots of buildings. Most were added recently by a user called Blumpsy.

Iris in churchyard of St John the Baptist on Pitfield Street

'Pancake racing here today' at William Tyndale school

Preparing red kale we bought at the market

Buildings and even street numbers in Islington on OpenStreetMap

The excellent TheyWorkForYou sent me an e-mail alert informing me that Wikipedia had been mentioned in the Scottish Parliament.

David Whitton says:

As an experiment, I typed the single word "tartan" into an internet search engine this morning. Some colourful results came up. According to Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia, tartan

"is a pattern consisting of criss-crossed horizontal and vertical bands in multiple colours".

That is a bit different from the description in the bill, and Mr McGrigor may want to send his definition to Wikipedia to update it.

I like that he recommends updating the article.

See also

• TheyWorkForYou on Wikipedia
• Other mentions of Wikipedia

These screenshots were taken using Firefox 3, but with the User-Agent set to Opera Mini 4.

The first shows mobile Google Reader viewing a story from The Times. Traditional media outlets, like The Times, only include a summary in their RSS feed, you have to click the 'See original' link to read the story. The Times detects a mobile browser and redirects to http://www.timesmobile.mobi/, which can be seen in the second screenshot. The page lists the current headlines, not the story from the RSS feed. This is broken.

You've seen Fairtrade Towns, now we have Transition Towns.